Esports Team Training

Inside Esports Teams — Training Professional Gaming Stars

Training an Esports Professional Team Is No Easy Task

Pavle Marinkovic
Predict
Published in
6 min readMay 27, 2020

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Photo by Florian Olivo

We’re familiar with the early videogame competitions at our local arcade centers. People played on those machines, trying to put their name initials at the top of their favorite game. The challenging part came when you’d arrive the next day only to see your initials in second, third, or not even in the top 10 highest scores. You wouldn’t leave until you saw your name on that damn list.

And then things got serious. Teams were formed. Multiplayer games developed. Technology increased so much in the late 90’s that it paved the way for highly competitive teams to connect and establish regular tournament seasons.

Things got very sophisticated and now Esports pro players are considered high-performance athletes. Now, how do these teams look like today?

Esports Team Composition

With more than 380 million viewers worldwide and the Esports market valued at 865 million U.S. dollars, teams are under constant pressure to be top-notch.

Each video game tournament has teams ranging from 3 to 6 players. As in other team sports, each player has an assigned position, so…

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Pavle Marinkovic
Predict

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