We had the prospect to sit down down with Mavera, the present coach of S2G Esports, who beforehand labored with Oxygen, Fireplace Flux, and Galakticos.
In our dialog, S2G’s coach Mavera talked about his life, profession, his ongoing journey with S2G, and shared his ideas on the Turkish VALORANT scene. It turned out to be an important interview for esports followers.
Hiya Mavera, to start with, I’d like to speak a bit about you. How’s life and your profession going?Thanks. All the things’s going properly — as typical, it’s fairly busy. Day-after-day is spent making an attempt to enhance each myself and my gamers.
As somebody who has labored with Turkish groups for a very long time, what would you say are the most effective and worst traits of Turkish gamers in comparison with international ones?The very best half is that Turkish gamers are each gifted and appear to have stronger causes to succeed. However truthfully, that’s additionally their largest weak spot. Many younger gamers are so decided to “make it” that they crash arduous when confronted with setbacks. In aggressive sports activities, successful and shedding are each a part of the sport. Expertise and arduous work matter, in fact, however the psychological facet is much more vital than it seems from the skin.
Are you able to inform us a bit about how issues are going with S2G currently? Is every part as you hoped?Through the offseason, we reorganized along with S2G administration. We’re focusing extra on youth improvement and the academy. Our most important objective is to deliver new younger skills into the ecosystem. As a substitute of chasing short-term success, we’ve aligned on a long-term venture imaginative and prescient.We’ve been giving many younger gamers alternatives — over 100 to this point. In fact, we will’t work with all of them, however at the least they received to expertise what an expert tryout is like. We met nice individuals alongside the way in which, and that is an space that deserves much more funding.
In VALORANT, in comparison with CS, youthful gamers appear to search out alternatives and success extra simply. Why do you suppose that’s?I believe it’s simpler to rise in VALORANT. Younger gamers have higher adaptability and may maintain high-effort work for longer. Perhaps it’s in our genes, however I actually consider Turkey is an FPS nation. We’ve a gold mine, however we’re not digging it. What we have to do is extract and refine these skills correctly — but we’re too lazy to even swing the pickaxe.
Earlier than S2G, did you’re feeling a particular bond with any of the groups you labored with?Actually, it’s arduous to decide on. I all the time attempt to join with each group I’ve labored with. I’m truly a software program engineer, however I’m nonetheless actively working within the esports business as a result of I’m captivated with it. And while you love what you do, it’s solely pure to care concerning the individuals who contribute to it — each the great and the unhealthy ones.
What are your ideas on the “lobbying” problem in Turkish esports?I don’t have a optimistic opinion about it. It’s one thing we urgently must do away with. Choice-makers should take motion. Individuals must step out of their consolation zones and provides alternatives to those that really deserve them. Is it straightforward? No. Do I’ve hope? Not a lot. However do I nonetheless attempt my greatest for it? Completely.
Earlier than S2G, you labored with ladies’s groups at each Fireplace Flux and DVM. Which was simpler to work with — males’s or ladies’s groups? What had been the primary variations?They had been completely different experiences. At Fireplace Flux, I solely helped the ladies’s workforce part-time, however at DVM, I coached a global ladies’s workforce for the primary time — and it was an important expertise.To be sincere, the draw back was that the league had much less recognition and the in-game stage was decrease in comparison with males’s VALORANT. Apart from that, working with ladies was simpler. It was a course of the place I each discovered and taught rather a lot. These women had been so skilled and hardworking that they might set an instance for males’s groups. They got here to follow on daily basis keen to enhance. I hope to see extra consideration and funding in that facet of esports.
Is there one thing you all the time emphasize throughout workforce follow? What do you pay essentially the most consideration to?Self-discipline. Not simply in perspective, however in every part — each out and in of the sport. It’s one of many issues I by no means compromise on. Everybody’s time is efficacious, so every workforce member has to present their greatest. It’s additionally my duty to make sure that occurs. In my opinion, self-discipline is step one towards professionalism in aggressive workforce sports activities.
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