In this article, you will be able to find out how to become a professional cybersports player n CSGO and other disciplines. To be honest, this question interests a lot of gamers, both “newbie” and “veteran” ones. So, this topic is quite wanted, especially by teenagers and young men. As a rule, the most part of cybersports professionals are 14 to 26 years old.
Let’s try to find out what kind of “sports” is the point and to understand how to get better in CSGO and become a pro player. This guide is suitable for other games, too.
Let’s roll!
What’s That?
First, we’ll need to understand the overall subject of discussion. What is that cybersports? It is important for you to know the deal before joining the world of cybersport professionals. What if that is a dangerous and unpredictable thing?
Honestly, there is some piece of danger cybersports can bring your organism. It actually can harm your nerves. Cybersports mean playing computer games for points. In other words, it is a professional PC gaming. Mostly, people play for money or other prizes. It is a kind of competition where computers have important roles: they define a place and methods for players to compete with each other.
But how to become a pro player in CS: GO or any other cybersports discipline? In general, there is no special algorithm. But there are 10 simple steps for you to make. After you do, you’ll become a master of your sports.
It is worth to mention one thing at once: competitions mostly touch shooter or MOBA games (Counter Strike or DotA 2). Still, other games can become competitive, too. Sometimes, there are tournaments in different virtual simulators like The Sims.
And finally, let’s try to find out how to become a pro player in CS: GO, DotA 2, League of Legends, Rainbow Six: Siege and other computer games.
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Be Calm. Just Be Calm
Everything begins with your self-improvement here. To say more precisely, you need to improve your health. As we said above, cybersports are activities which are quite dangerous for your nerves. It’s all fine when you take part in some amateur tournament. But when the point is the world-level competition, even the smallest mistake can drive you mad and make you inadequate. As scientists say, neural cells are very slow to recover.
So, if you want to become a pro player in CS (actually, the game does not really matter here), you need to learn how to stay calm in various life situations. You can skip this step if you want. But if you do, there is a probability for you to gain reputation of a nervous, unstable and inadequate person even if you are not like that in reality. Cybersports may sometimes make you play very tough matches.
In addition, it is very difficult to act quickly and make correct decisions while having a worried mind. Calmness is not only useful for your health but able to help you win a tournament.
Are you ready? Then, let’s move on.
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Situation Analysis
Now, we need to say: you will have to learn how to analyze situations in order to become a pro CS: GO player. And your analysis has to be quick, precise and correct. Otherwise, your slowness can harm you and your team.
To learn how to do that, watch recordings of competitive games by professional players. Study their tactics, tricks and maneuvers. With time, you’ll memorize them. And of course, this experience will definitely be useful in future.
It would be good for you to learn analyzing real life situations, too. This should be a talent in your blood. Otherwise, your mistakes may cause your personal loss or hit the whole team. If possible, test your conclusions and ideas in practice. This means, participate in amateur competitions.
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Combine Things
For example, you need to learn combining your job, your studying and your hobbies. Becoming a pro player takes a lot of time and energy. Remaining a pro player takes much more. Sometimes it can make you diffuse in it totally and to prevent you from noticing anything around you.
That is why it is always important to find a proper balance between studying, job and cybersports. You won’t be able to become a sportsman in this field without that balance. People who do nothing but gaming are often despised.
Yes, it is not easy to reach harmony here. But many players are successful about this task. You only need to go on living your life and developing your personality. Just play computer games regularly, too.
Avoid addiction! It will only harm you and your team. Treat cybersports as usual competitions, and you’ll make it obligatory.
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Gaming Communities
Pro players state that you’ll have to communicate with different communities of gamers to build a career. Moreover, you’ll have to become their part. Sometimes it is not just difficult to achieve this goal but quite pricy as well. Not in terms of money, of course.
If you want to become a pro player in a single game, there won’t be problems. Find out how to join the appropriate community, demonstrate your skills, and negotiate about participation conditions. Then, it’s done.
But if you are interested in becoming a pro player in many games then a lot of time will be spent for gaming communities.
Take into account the fact that you’ll have to communicate with your hobby fellows everyday and to visit meetings, too. Each game has its community nowadays. On one side, it’s good: you won’t get confused. On the other side, it is very uncomfortable, because a pro cybersports player has to join and participate in many groups.
All in all, you’ll cope with this problem with time. It’s not too difficult to support contacts with people. Getting into their group of interests is much harder.
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Self-Control
Self-control is another important step helping you understand how to become a pro CS: GO player. Don’t confuse it with calmness. These are different things.
Take into account the fact that even the very best player loses nearly 50% of their matches. And this number is normal. Nevertheless, many gamers think that a pro player is a master unable or vey rare to lose. Unfortunately, that’s not true at all.
As many players say, you need to lose before gaining your victory. Defeats are necessary parts of cybersports. To become a pro player, you need to learn how to control your feelings and emotions and to take losses as something normal. Yes, unfortunately they happen. But there is nothing you can do about them.
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Talent or Calling
Of course, not all people who aimed to become a pro cybersports player made it. Many people think it has to be your calling and you need to have a talent.
So, before joining the top world of pro gamers, think if you need it that much. Maybe, you just lack physical or mental health and durability. Cybersports is the activity requiring certain skills despite all competitions happen at PC desktops. Sometimes such tournaments tire gamers even more than real Olympic Games.
If you feel any doubts, it will be better for you to refuse the idea of becoming a pro gamer. There is no need to get exhausted and to let your team down. Don’t forget: a good player, a professional is the one carrying a natural talent first of all. You can develop your skills on your own, but it is very difficult to reach this goal.
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Personal Life
Don’t forget you are a human. Even the most devoted and passionate players should have personal lives. Cybersports can be perceived as a usual hobby, an entertainment able to bring incomes and fame at the same time. So you shouldn’t concentrate on it too much.
This is a correct choice. Here is the point: it is possible to become a famous pro player while combining your gaming hobby and usual life. But gamers concentrated on computers only and having no personal lives have much less chances to reach success.
Here they meet emotional tension and constant depressions. Additionally, people concentrated on something too much have almost no chances to become really good in their field.
Go on living, be glad with your life, build a family and don’t forget about computers. After finding a proper balance (this process is not easy in most cases) you’ll obligatory reach your success in pro gaming.
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Training
Here is another thing you need to understand: to become a professional gamer, you’ll need huge experience and much practice. Constant practice. Analysis, tactics and harmonious regular life are just wonderful but you’ll not be able to become successful in cybersports without practice.
What do you need to do to get better in CSGO? Just play. Play and get experience. A good gamer sometimes has to spend 10-14 hours daily for playing in order to reach the appropriate level.
Don’t forget: after certain patches and updates are released, you need to study them at once and then to use them in practice. Your competitors do the same and can master new moves and tactics faster than you. And then you’ll have to sweat two times more to reach top levels of your gaming mechanics.
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Relations with People
After you decide to become a pro CS: GO player, accept this fact: despite cybersports are official in many countries, people don’t yet value it that much.
People might not think you to be a sportsman. Many of them will say that you waste your time, do nothing and so on. It’s almost impossible to avoid such behavior. You’ll have to learn how to interact with a society as a pro gamer. Self-control and calmness will help you here.
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Study Games
Following previous tips will make you a pro gamer. But here is another important moment: studying games which developers offer. They are of different genres and types. And good players should be aware about new games.
As we already mentioned, shooters, MOBA-games and strategies are most frequent to become cybersports disciplines. This means you shouldn’t concentrate on improving your skills in a single game but to study new games of a genre, too. Pay attention to big projects only, and build your career of a pro player.
