I try my best to make sure that people are on the same page and the environment is positive on the team, that’s part of esports, to make sure that everybody can speak their mind and everybody feels equal. Inside the game there is a shot caller, but we have to listen to each other every single day.
Take more responsibility than teammates, because he is the shot caller. Responsible for the macro game and makes sure that his team doesn’t lose a rotation. When it comes to an engage I’m also the guy mainly
responsible for that. It was pretty natural for me, because of my game sense and game understanding. Being shot caller helps you grow a lot as a player I think. Being a leader is natural for me, outside the game I also was a leader for some non profit organizations, but never studied it.
I don’t think performance changes much when facing unknown situations. It puts us outside comfort zone and you maybe have to play differently, but we have our draft and we know what to do. We can always turn around a problem and make it our strength.
I used to be a person who would choke at LAN events a lot, despite good performance in online tournaments. I had issues performing on LAN events. Since I started working on that more and more and last event I played I did really well and that made me really proud, it showed results from my hard work.
I just practice a lot, there is nothing more you can do. Practice and watch replays, watch players that are better than you, like the koreans. When the korean league plays you can watch it and it helps a lot to understand what they’re doing. Other then that it is only practice.
I try to talk and be the person which brings up the issues on the team and I think what Im doing is basically just playing the game and being the ingame leader, cheer up the team and be the motivational booster as well.
That is something I do a lot. I think speaking up about opinions is very important. Part of pro gaming and shotcalling as well, because even if im sometimes wrong, I think it’s a healthy way to approach this, cause imo we can talk about or else people will repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
I don’t think so, anytime I do that kind of stuff I always try to be constructive and have good arguments when I talk about it. To make sure nobody feels upset or that it’s something personal. I don’t think having personal issues with somebody is healthy for the team environment.
I think people ask for advice to the person with the highest game knowledge. Some people just need to be told what they did wrong, maybe sometimes it’s because of ego. In general I think a very healthy thing is to always be open minded and be open to criticism. People ask me for criticism all the time, and I also ask others to give me criticism. Because you can’t see everything, sometimes you will miss things, it doesn’t have to publicly. It’s important to every player to keep evolving as a person and as a player. You can always look for something to improve on.
The moments when there is nothing much to do, because maybe you’re waiting for an objective. That’s a good moment to talk about what’s going to happen or something we have to work on for the next teamfight. Maybe like telling someone to play less aggressive the next time.
Strategies come from hero play and we give them a try in a scrim environment, and we see if it can work also in a comp environment. And I think that’s something that most teams do, you just pick heroes and try stuff in solo Q and try it out in scrims and see if it works. Because if it doesn’t work then it’s not too much of an issue.
We definitely look to always reflect on previous experiences to come up with new strategies. All of us have some knowledge and we try to use that knowledge to always think about the strats we are going to use in the
games. If it works on one map we are always willing to give it a try on another map. You give it a couple of tries to make sure that its a valid strat that is working.
Its important being confident in your abilities but also important to just make sure that everybody is on the same page and that everyone is motivated. I can have an individual goal and give my very best to accomplish it, but without everybody in the team putting the same effort as me I dont think that its possible. If we have a goal to win blizzcon we all have to work together to accomplish that. We have team talks where we talk about stuff that we need to work on and when we qualify for an event we set up some goals. Satisfied goal, minimum goal and perfect goal. Once we accomplish top 4 we are pretty happy, so we decide hey lets try and win it all. We take it step-by-step.
I always try to remind people that our goal is to win overall, so what we can do all depends on us. Nobody can do it for us, if we wanna go to blizzcon we have to work our ass off, it only depends on ourselves if we can do it or not.
Normally when I feel burnt out I just try to take a break and get hungry for motivation. Focus more on real life and make sure that I am completely reset. Then after some time I am ready to compete against the best people again.
I always have something as a backup, so if someone disagrees I have an argument that I can use. If I say someone is making a mistake I can show an example in the replays and if somebody disagrees about that, its not my problem because I try to be as constructive as possible when criticising someone or giving my point of view.
That’s the only positive approach to communication between the people. Use a lot of logic and hard facts.
Not really an influencer. I don’t feel like being that kind of person. But I don’t know if being an influencer is something I wanted to do. I feel like the influencer is doing that kind of stuff on purpose, I don’t do it on purpose, I just look for variations because I enjoy doing it. I don’t feel proud or anything if other people do stuff that I invented, I don’t do it on purpose.
Communication style depends, dominant when you shot call, because people need to have feeling that I’m confident about what I’m doing, that’s very important. To have a leader that is extremely motivated and communicates in a very confident way. It affects any single aspect of what we’re doing. It’s also way easier to convince people when you sound confident. When I see someone isn’t performing I use supportive comm, tell them to relax and take it slow. I used supp when working with people who didn’t feel confident with
themselves.
Emotional, hot-headed, but also very honest, honorable and confident.
It’s difficult to talk about performance after the game, I always look at the replay first and then talk about my performance. One thing is feeling that you played good and then actually playing good. I think that is a very important difference. Look at replays to find out if he did good or bad. Always look at facts. Maybe emotion is a bad thing, but he learned to counter it?? ikke sig det, bare en note til os
That’s definitely something I’m doing, self reflection comes when I do mistakes that are repeating themselves, I try to find a way to not make those same mistakes again and focus more on those aspects of the game in solo Q.
I encourage people to talk about their feelings, not when it’s personal, but in general. ANd that’s something, if I know somebody is struggling I always convince people to open about how they feel in their life. I use a supportive style and we are all humans and share the same goal, so we have to support each other to reach our goals, if people don’t feel happy.
Can definitely feel how people feel when discussing changes. WHen you spend 9 hours each day, you can see in his gameplay if something is wrong or in the way he talks, like his tone is very important. And I guess that is it.
I think it really depends, just drafting the right composition and just pick comfort picks. When you go through strats it’s important that people feel comfortable with playing this strat. I don’t mind being the guy which is supportive and behind the team. Eventually people will realize that hey this guy is doing a lot of work.
I usually try to consult teammates, I don’t remember anything where we didn’t talk about stuff.
I don’t think competitors have an influence on how we play, we always try to play our own style and our own game, it makes us unique as a team.
Playing in front of a crowd affects me in a positive way, I see all these people coming to cheer for us. I feel extremely motivated to not make them disappointed.
Blue is the color, I like the color, like the skies.