Reading Time: 2 minutes Bad teammates are always going to be an issue when solo, duo or even trio queueing. Not only can it hinder our results,  but it can severely effect how we improve. To deal with bad teammates directly can be an absolute nightmare. Not only is it frustrating, but there just isn’t enough time to reasonably do it in a game. Not to mention it feels like every time you get closer to the point, they move further away from it. That’s why the absolute best way to deal with bad teammates, is to not deal with them at all.  Every moment you spend focusing on what your tea ..read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’ve been following over the years, you’ll know that I have bounced around a few eSports gig platforms looking for coaching gigs. Not with the sole intention of making money. Truthfully I have tested these platforms to help more players improve, test coaching philosophies and also see what it’s like to be a freelance coach. From my time in Facebook groups. To my exploration of Fiverr, and then onto Challengermode. I’ve found that the landscape truly hasn’t changed all that much. There are definitely more players willing to spend money on coaching than there was whe ..read more

Reading Time: 6 minutes Competitive gaming is an interestingly cruel and ironic activity. Think about it, in almost everything you do in life, the better you get the easier the task becomes. However to improve your skill level in gaming you have to be exposed to increasingly difficult obstacles. For example, you have been going 2-2 at every tournament and falling just short of making it out of pools. You grind and grind until one day you finally make it out of pools. Your reward? A harder opponent in the next round! But that is where the beauty of competition comes in. That harder opponent is ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever sat down to start a competitive gaming session and then quickly stopped playing because it just wasn’t feeling right? Or felt like you started on the wrong foot and just couldn’t bare the losses? We published a post quite some time ago about a secret technique that improved performance. That technique being a pre-game ritual. We explained the importance of it, but never really gave too many examples. So in this post we are going to tell you the 6 Best Pre-Game Practices to Win More Games in eSports. These 6 practices are guaranteed to help you see performa ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes A while back I created a YouTube video demonstrating what I believe to be the best replay review tool for eSports. I wanted to make a blog post to reflect that video, and also add some more input to it’s importance. If you would like to check out the video you can check it out below! You know how important replay review is. We wrote an entire blog about it! Insights.gg Insights.gg is an incredible website. The website acts as a video host where you can watch videos live with multiple people, or save them and watch them later. It is relatively new and the team behind it ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes They say you should always keep your eyes on the prize. A phrase that is both powerful and difficult. In the realm of eSports, maintaining motivation can be a daunting task. This is true for both new players and veterans. Even more so for players and content creators who haven’t made it big. The amount of time that is put into competitive gaming is massive for an individual. Especially for those who have a full time job and family. Not only is it a requirement for you to be skilled and maintain your skills, but as a competitor you are driven to. So you hop on every sing ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes Is achieving a repeatable success formula possible in eSports? This is a question that has been floating around in my mind for about 2 years now. Mainly the importance of having one. This has been for the most part one of the spring boards for starting the blog. Uncovering this question and it’s potential answer as attributed to most of my motivation. I personally think it is key to the future of eSports as a whole. Let me share my thoughts on the important question: Is achieving a repeatable success formula possible in eSports? What Is a Repeatable Success Formula? Jus ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes Losing is the absolute worst. I think we can all agree on that. Watching your rank points go down. Feeling your time spent for nothing. Having to stop playing because you’re out of the tournament. All just miserable things. It’s so universally agreed upon that a while ago we wrote a post titled: The Day After – Post Tournament Loss. That post focused heavily on the initial fallout after losing in a tournament. As well as the emotional consequences. It’s time to revisit losing. Look at it from a more general perspective, and teach you How To Deal With Losing as an eAthle ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes For this post we are going to focus on Team Dynamics for eAthletes: Managing Ego. This is going to be the first in a series titled Team Dynamics for eAthletes. There are many aspects of competitive gaming that aren’t discussed very often, and I believe Team Dynamics is one of them. Finding a team is a crucial goal for any eAthlete depending on the game they compete in. Not to be confused with finding an Organization or getting sponsored. Finding a team doesn’t always result in being signed to a major organization. For most it just means finding a group of 4-5 players to ..read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute   My 5 best practices for becoming an eAthlete. Subscribe to us on YouTube for more content like this! The post Becoming An eAthlete appeared first on Free Agency eSports ..read more