What exactly does an Esports coach do apart from coaching?

Coaching is an important term whether in life or in sports you would need mentors, coaches, gurus, philosophers & teachers to guide you but when you are hired by a specific team to dictate to the players how they need to play and develop their game awareness skills you would need coaches.

Coaching in traditional sports is not something we will be taking much in this article in fact we will be talking about Esports coaching and what are the roles, and responsibilities they have to perform in the gaming ecosystem.

What roles does esports Psychologist play in this growing sporting ecosystem?

Primarily the role of an esports coach is similar to a traditional coach when it comes to training players physically and mentally.

Coaching methods changes depending on particular game for e.g  A CS:GO Coach will be working to develop role and tactics for different players. He tries his best to develop chemistry among his players even from emotional point of view.

In order to become an Esports coach, you need a first hand experience of game beforehand as a player you should have participated in different tournaments and studied tactics to find out which things will work and the ones which needs to be eradicated.

Also the appointment of coach in Esports scenario is totally depended on the call taken by Team Director and in case of low tier teams they hire coaches but the one who have immense experience (Top Tier teams) are assisted by team director.

The best place where coaches gets hired is  GameSync or the Gamurs website.

Esports coaching is a complete process of coaching, strategizing and building internal functions of the team along with giving inputs in current team drafting strategies which will work based on team strengths.

They also sometimes work as psychologist where they are establishing communication with their team players and ensuring that all the mental blocks, personal issues that a particular player is going through should not hamper their performance so that they can perform to their max potential.

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