Comments on: Question to the Community: e-Coaches?

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By: Victor 's.e.t.i.' Hanson

Victor 's.e.t.i.' Hanson — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:29:13 +0000

Very good read, Justin. I played soccer for 11 years and coached for 5. There really is a different perspective from a coaches point of view. However there really is no physical side to gaming, the match coaching is typically handled by the team captain calling the strats. What’s left then is making sure your players show up on time for practices and matches, and encouragement for them to perform to the peak of their abilities. You have a darn good team captain if they can handle all of that. I think the coaching responsibility can be shared between the manager(s) and team captain. The big problem you run into is ego in this game. For the players to accept anybody to tell what to do they need to prove their experience and know what they’re talking about. If not you create more discord in the clan, which is usually traced back to ego. If you spread the responsibility of coaching then each “coach” can focus on their strengths in terms of how they can best provide what the team needs. This is not unlike how professional sports organizations have special teams coaches, each coach brings a certain type of expertise to the team so the team can operate as a whole. You pointed this out, “They’re really isn’t a pool of high quality older players who can help give more insight than current team captains.” There is no better reason than that supporting why you should spread the responsibility. If you remove team and player management from the team captain, they can focus on what they are good at without distraction.

By: Andrew "ket" Van Rensalier

Andrew "ket" Van Rensalier — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:13:31 +0000

Good read, but in the end unless you’re expecting to split divisions by both age and skill you’ll turn up the same result over and over. In sports they seperate divisions definitively by an age group, certain leagues while you’re in middle school town leagues, high school leagues, etc. It’s pretty much open before high school whereas you actually have to have skill to make the team. Now, for CS, age is ignored, leaving a huge huge problem in the formation of teams which hold anyone under 18-19 years old. You may have players who are 13-14 years old playing with players 17-18 years old, that’s like having high school freshmen play varsity, extremely rare. Only when a team consists of members all either in the same age group (within a year at most) or if they’re all 18+ (even 18 is a stretch because there are plenty of 18 years old with immaturity issues.) can you even approach the game professionally. The problem is that video games are more appealing to those who are younger than this age because they need things to fill their time, people who are in college have to worry about so many different things that they often lose interest in video games and only play in their leisure, a.k.a not play in a league. Until there is “job” security and players can declare CS as a profession and not worry about what happens when the public loses interest in the game (they already have, and there is no security) there is no hope for the survival of the game let alone advancing it. After playing for 4-5 years competitively I don’t regret it at all, in fact I miss what it used to be. I have more important things to worry about now in my life than a video game and advancing it when there are literally a million others out there. The people who sponsor video games always want NEW things. CS will not interest sponsors for any kind of funding when they can just create new games that require people to buy upgrades to their computers and it will keep going in that pattern over and over. It’s unfortunate but in the end counter-strike is a video game, it doesn’t deserve to be called a sport until it’s been around for at least another hundred years, with technology advancing at the rate it is do you think that will happen? I don’t.