We had the possibility to take a seat down with Mavera, the present coach of S2G Esports, who beforehand labored with Oxygen, Hearth 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 amazing interview for esports followers.
Hey Mavera, to begin with, I’d like to speak a bit about you. How’s life and your profession going?Thanks. Every little thing’s going properly — as standard, it’s fairly busy. Daily is spent attempting 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 one of the best and worst traits of Turkish gamers in comparison with overseas ones?The very best half is that Turkish gamers are each gifted and appear to have stronger causes to succeed. However actually, that’s additionally their greatest weak spot. Many younger gamers are so decided to “make it” that they crash laborious when confronted with setbacks. In aggressive sports activities, profitable and dropping are each a part of the sport. Expertise and laborious work matter, in fact, however the psychological facet is much more vital than it seems from the surface.
Are you able to inform us a bit about how issues are going with S2G these days? Is every part as you hoped?In the course of the offseason, we reorganized along with S2G administration. We’re focusing extra on youth growth and the academy. Our essential aim is to deliver new younger abilities into the ecosystem. As a substitute of chasing short-term success, we’ve aligned on a long-term mission imaginative and prescient.We’ve been giving many younger gamers alternatives — over 100 to this point. After all, we are able to’t work with all of them, however no less than they acquired to expertise what knowledgeable tryout is like. We met nice individuals alongside the best way, 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 might maintain high-effort work for longer. Perhaps it’s in our genes, however I actually imagine Turkey is an FPS nation. We now have a gold mine, however we’re not digging it. What we have to do is extract and refine these abilities correctly — but we’re too lazy to even swing the pickaxe.
Earlier than S2G, did you are feeling a particular bond with any of the groups you labored with?Actually, it’s laborious to decide on. I at all times attempt to join with each group I’ve labored with. I’m really a software program engineer, however I’m nonetheless actively working within the esports trade as a result of I’m keen about it. And once you love what you do, it’s solely pure to care in regards to the individuals who contribute to it — each the great and the dangerous ones.
What are your ideas on the “lobbying” problem in Turkish esports?I don’t have a constructive opinion about it. It’s one thing we urgently must eliminate. Resolution-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 strive my greatest for it? Completely.
Earlier than S2G, you labored with girls’s groups at each Hearth Flux and DVM. Which was simpler to work with — males’s or girls’s groups? What have been the principle variations?They have been completely different experiences. At Hearth Flux, I solely helped the ladies’s staff part-time, however at DVM, I coached a global girls’s staff for the primary time — and it was an amazing expertise.To be trustworthy, the draw back was that the league had much less recognition and the in-game degree was decrease in comparison with males’s VALORANT. Aside from that, working with girls was simpler. It was a course of the place I each realized and taught loads. These women have been so skilled and hardworking that they may set an instance for males’s groups. They got here to observe every single day keen to enhance. I hope to see extra consideration and funding in that facet of esports.
Is there one thing you at all times emphasize throughout staff observe? 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 effective, so every staff member has to present their greatest. It’s additionally my accountability to make sure that occurs. For my part, self-discipline is step one towards professionalism in aggressive staff sports activities.
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