Author: War3station
Translator: GLH
Professional player may be the biggest dream for the E-sports players and gamers. Since NetEase published their plan and initiative in 2019, this is not a dream anymore.
But now the problem, how to become a professional?
Coach, I wanna play professional player!
Long time ago, the skillful players and gamers were always being on the Forum of Baidu, look at the table with a lot of "TBD", you may know how good the audiences are.
Nowadays, we have a lot of streamers, and these audiences turn their field to those stream platforms, and said some words like these, you may be familiar to these.
"Oh man! Why did you fight in this timing?"
"Fool!Why did he choose this hero?!"
"Does he know how to play this game? I even can win this fight easily."
......
For those men with these actions, they are called
"Keyboard man"
Anyway, those "Keyboard man" won't be able to become a professional player, let's analyze who will be the professional player.
"Hotcakes"
Characteristic:
Famous, skillful, great results, especially in the big tournaments, and their state are good too, we believe they will be in the "hall of fame" in the future. For conclusion, they are having the right to choose which club or squad they wanna join.
Example:
Infi, Fly100%, TH000, Moon, Lyn, 120
(They are called "the 6s" in China)
Current situation:
Infi has signed with RW, 120 has signed with Newbee, and TH has signed with GK. We believe Moon, Lyn and Fly100% are being striven by the clubs and squads. The clubs and squads have confidence in themselves that they can get these players.
Great Force
Characteristic:
Overall strength may a bit lower than "6s", but they may win the players in the "6s" sometimes. They can provide their clubs and squads a great force, but some of them are going old.
Example:
Lawliet, FoCuS, Lucifer, Foggy, WFZ
Current situation:
Some of the major clubs and squads are waiting, and some of them are negotiating, but we didn't get any information about their contract, maybe most of them are waiting their performance in WGL offline.
Player with Potential
Characteristic:
They are young, and having a big space to improve, but their overall strength are not better than the senior player like FoCuS, Lucifer.
Example:
Life, Colorful, Chaemiko
Current situation:
Compare with the senior players, seems the clubs and squads are more interested to this kind of players, maybe this is just about time for their contract.
Player with specialty
Characteristic:
Most of them are great in 2v2, but they may be weaker in 1v1, they are the players with specialty. Even though their result are seems so-so, but they are the great players in team competition.
Example:
TeD, Hainiu, Zhouxixi, Check
Current situation:
"Be it a black cat or a white cat, a cat that can catch mice is a good cat." Sometimes, the clubs and squads may choose a special plan to win a series in team competition, and these players may get points in 1v1 too. So, they may be signed with some clubs and squads.
For conclusion, if you want to become a professional player, the best way is to make yourself better and stronger, if you didn't have a great skills or strength, you may choose to practice the special skill like 2v2. Of course, if you are born after 1995 or 2000, your biggest advantage is that you are young, you may choose to train yourself very hard and become a professional player.
How should you do if you don't have the samples we just said?
It's ok, we have two way for you.
First, you may ask Laofen, he played with a squad, EHOME, so he may have some experiences for you.
Second, you might learn from Teacher Liang(Infi's Wife [1]), she had "played" professional player.
Remarks[1]: Infi's wife is called Teacher Liang by the War3 audiences and players in China, however, Liang is not her family name.
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