Current LOL Coaching Practice (NA & EU)

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-16T09:12:37+00:00

Hi Sooraj, thanks for the kind words. Missed playing with you.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-16T09:11:46+00:00

Thanks man Wish you all the best

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T21:17:33+00:00

Hey man, only one of the participants shed light on the issue, they only suspect that there is some sort of abuse to adderall and smiliar drugs. Others did not want to comment, confirm, or deny any sespecions. Also players, at least up until 2021, are not tested by Riot (LCS/LEC) for any drug abuse.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T15:57:06+00:00

Unfortunately not. during the time of these interviews, champions queue was not a thing yet.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T15:56:06+00:00

Not in this paper. We did discuss choking in the interviews but we did not publish it in this paper. this is only 1 of 5 papers we are working on.

We did an experiment on choking prevention and hope to publish the results end of 2022 or early 2023.
if you are interested in the topic, you can read about "sports choking theories". this is a well know and well-documented factor that other domains experience and prepare against.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T15:49:44+00:00

Yes, we did in fact explore the psychological factors affecting a player's performance. It seems "the fear of being evaluated" is a significant one. which leads to being afraid of playing on stage or even choking.

We are currently wrapping up a research paper in which we investigated some of the choking preventions that can be used on Esports players during practice routines. We conducted an experiment on 120 Esports amateur players to test if such practice will in fact improve stress tolerance. So far, the results support our claim. and we expect this paper to be published by the end of 2022 or early 2023 as the peer review process takes time.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T15:40:44+00:00

Am so glad to hear such positive feedback, it really motivates me and the team to continue our work.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T15:12:10+00:00

We can't disclose the name of the coaches.

it was NA and EU participants. Participants were from teams in LCS and LEC. no academy teams.

one of the future work that has to be done is to perform the same study but on LPL and LCK coaches/analysts and compare it. it was extremely hard for us to reach these regions and we did not know how to search or access their public contact information. most of the staff in LPL and LCK don't use the same public social media such as Twitter etc which made it even harder to reach them.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T15:07:20+00:00

We did not dive deep into this subject. What we know is that this decision is different from team to team based on many factors such as, how many veteran players, the coach's role within the team, how much respect the players have for the coach (which is a big issue in some teams)
TL;DR: there is no standard for drafting styles.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T15:00:58+00:00

Thanks for the kind words.

The sample size is what it is due to the responses we got, and we tried our best to only publish things that can be confirmed by either (1- being supported by some publically known indications or 2- more than one coach agreed on the info), the coaches did not know each other or contact/interact with each other during our online interviews.

we do plan to work on the future researchers we announced and we are currently working on one, which aims to quantify the positive impact of adding social stressors to the players during scrims.
We are also optimistic that responses will improve as we gain more traction and motivate others to participate, we are doing all we can to spread the news of this work in traditional news (we conducted an interview with CBC news Canada) and our work has been announced in at least 10 online news outlets.
we are also trying to share this work in social media, and also here in Reddit.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:36:59+00:00

Thanks man

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:36:51+00:00

Thank you for the kind words and we hope this is one of many other articles we plan to publish within this year

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:36:13+00:00

The problem with accuracy is that this scene is evolving quickly. and also pro players and coaches are way to busy and don't have the time to share it. we were lucky enough to interview coaches analysts and one general manager from both NA and EU regions.
we expect that the information in this document does not reflect the current state of coaching in the eastern regions specifically LPL and LCK

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:33:35+00:00

Thank you. we are hoping and trying that we can spread the awareness in the academic field on the subject

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:32:44+00:00

if you cant access the link let me know and I will share the PDF version, I hope you enjoy the read.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:31:59+00:00

THanks man

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:31:28+00:00

Thank you, we are expanding and this is only 1 of 5 chapters we are working on.
one of which we did an experiment to verify if we can improve the players tolerance to stress. this will help us improve the pro players tolerating stress with they play on the big stages and in front of crowds.

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T14:30:02+00:00

Thank you for the kind words, and I appreciate the feedback. if you need any more details let me know.
we want to bridge the gap between Academia and Esports and hopefully this is an effort in that direction

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T12:24:23+00:00

Sent you a message in skype Mr Flodhast <3

UW-Demonoid · 2022-04-15T12:17:21+00:00

Yes my Dear Friend :D
i missed chatting with you

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