Esport Talk

What do you need in order to build up your esports team? Five dedicated and talented players, five high-end computers, and maybe a place where they can practice, right? Of course, there is much more to forming a successful esports team, and the role of the managers is one of the most critical factors. But what does a manager do and how does this contribute to the success of the players? In today's episode we try to answer these (and more) questions with our guest Jan 'Careion' Hoffmann from Fnatic, one of the biggest teams in competitive gaming. Careion coaches Fnatic's Heroes of the Storm squad and has been for six months with the team now. Although he was determined to become a teacher, his plans have changed in the last years when it became more and more evident that he actually wanted to dedicate his expertise, skills, and knowledge to esports. Even if you are not playing a game competitively, you can still be involved in the esports scene and get a job there. His job is currently to help his charges to a

How to become better at Dota 2 and other esports? One way to improve your performance in specific games is to get an esports coach gives you explains all the relevant strategies and tactics to you, practices with you, and improves your mindset. As esports becomes increasingly more popular and important for the industry, also coaching for games is on the rise. Today, we welcome Patrick and Stephen podcast who are the managers of a coaching platform called Quackstage. The website features coaches for the three major titles in competitive gaming, namely League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and, of course, Dota 2. We'll talk about Patrick and Stephen's got the idea to start this project and what they aim to achieve with it. As you might imagine, the market for coaching is fiercely contested by various platforms, so Quackstage tried to establish their own unique feature, which has, sadly, been ignored by many other providers. While their competitors don't check their coaches' abilities sufficiently

Digital card games like Hearthstone and Faeria have become increasingly important for the esports market in recent years. Not only is the genre ideal for casual gamers, as one match lasts only a few minutes. Hearthstone and its relatives are played by pro gamers as well, who try to make a living by competing with each other. In today's podcast, we welcome Nick Secker aka Aquablad who will introduce us to the realm of digital card games. The 30-year-old Welshman started as a Hearthstone player but has made his transition to Faeria. With his vast amount of knowledge about virtual trading card games, Nick is our man to shed some light on the problems and benefits of the genre. We will discuss the issue of monetarization in Hearthstone, which is contrary to the game's claim to be accessible for everyone. In fact, as Nick elaborates, you either have to play quite a lot to get better cards, or you have to buy new cards for real money. As a consequence, players have to invest a lot of time or cash in order to c

Have you ever had the idea to become an esports caster? We all know that competitive games such as Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, or League of Legends would not be quite as much fun watching if it wasn't for those fellas who guide us through epic matches, explain all kinds of tactics and strategies, and hype the fights. In today's episode, our guest Michael ' KendricSwissh ' Kratzel will tell you what it takes to become a professional esports caster and host. The former semi-professional WarCraft III player, who nowadays produces exciting content for Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch, has been around for a long time and knows what he's talking about. Not only do decent casters have to present the matches they are commentating on to the audience, but they have to pick up the viewers with their unique personality and style as well, and 'enchant' them to keep them watching. Therefore, it is important to work on your voice, intonation, vocabulary and flow to make close games even more exciting to watch. Casting

Welcome to the first Esport Talk episode in English! Our guest in this very special podcast is a true League of Legends expert. Chris "MoSiTing" Würger used to be the HC of Copenhagen Wolves and is currently coaching the Turkish team TTurquality. As a professional coach, Chris has a lot of insider knowledge he wants to share with us in the interview. With the LoL Worlds 2016 continuing tomorrow, we have some very exciting topics to cover. The 2016 League of Legends World Championship is the biggest, most prestigious, and most profitable tournament in the LoL scene. The winner team gets 1,000,000 US dollars, while the runner-up receives only a quarter of that sum. Accordingly, the pressure is incredibly high with so much money and prestige on the line. Chris predicts the victors of the upcoming group matches which will introduce the LoL Worlds 2016 and tries to answer the question: are the Korean teams again going to win the World Championship of the most popular esport title? Chris explains the practice condi