"That 21st Century Trend Of E-Sports Gaming"
Cyber-Athletes
Future Forecast For Gaming
The increase of participation levels, sponsorship deals, and competition events globally. Broadcasters will be making profits off the rights to air the popular trend. An example being Korea having their very own Leagues Of Legends broadcasted on TV.
Whilst on the other side of the spectrum designers, engineers and specialist companies will increase their production of portable devices, hardware and equipment to maximise on all aspects of e-sport/gaming.
Delivering mind blowing gaming to the very next level with digital augmented reality and competing on various platform internationally. We have already seen the eSports trend increasing in succession with internet access has now been available internationally.
“Every elite e-sports player is either hand picked by the management team or recommended by a former team member” states Michael O'Dell manager of Team Dignitas - one of the world's largest pro gaming teams.
The cyber athletes are required to sign a contract prior to becoming part of the team. This ensure they live a healthy lifestyle by attending the gym regularly and eating a balanced diet. This in turn ensures their overall performance when competing around the globe.
We should be ready for the elite e-sports players of the future?
When will the cross-roads between traditional sports and e-sports merge in the future?
Here are three cyber-athletes backgrounds and the lifestyles of a pro gamer.
“It has been compared to rock stars lifestyle” – Managing Director of Pro Gaming, ESL - Micheal “Carmac” Blicharz “A seven figure a salary” - Pro Gamer
Jason ‘WildTurtle’ Tran
Søren ‘Bjergsen’ Bjerg
Nathan ‘Nbk’ Schmitt
French professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player and former Counter-Strike: Source player, currently playing for Team EnVyUs as rifler.
(Member of EnvyUs CS division | World champion, DHWinter 2014 Major winner, X-Games Gold Medalist | Most rewarded French CS player)
Nbk trains 5 days out of 7 with his team, with the weekend off to themselves to focus on something else than other gaming. With the team the hours they train are on average 6 hours per day. He states “it is a full-time job” and this structure enables them “to be able to stay at the highest level” possible.
Danish professional - League Of Legends Pro Player, currently playing for Team SoloMidTeam SoloMid as Mid Laner.
Bjergsen daily routine is waking up 9 or 10am, eating breakfast, getting ready, commuting to the office space where the gaming is practised on average 10-12 hours per day. He states to live active lifestyle they have a separate office for playing the games “rather than playing from home and adopting a lazy lifestyle”.
Perhaps the management team have chosen this lifestyle to keep the e-sports players more proactive and focused.
They also have the option to practise against themselves in their performance, in addition to the 10-12 hours with the team daily.
Canadian professional - League Of Legends Pro Player, TSM's AD Carry, currently playing for Team SoloMid as AD.
WildTurtle practices with his team on average 10-12 hours each day. Similar to Bjergsen, SoloMid’s routine is wake up, eat go to their team office and start practicing on gaming with small breaks in between to snack or chill out. After breaks are taken sets are performed on practicing gaming within their relaxed environment in their teams professional office space.
