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1. #DOES IT COST MONEY TO PLAY OVERWATCH ONLINE PRO#
2. #DOES IT COST MONEY TO PLAY OVERWATCH ONLINE PROFESSIONAL#

You want to make sure that you’re having fun when you’re playing the game, and that it’s something you enjoy doing.”

#DOES IT COST MONEY TO PLAY OVERWATCH ONLINE PROFESSIONAL#

“It’s really hard to put that much time to become a professional into a game that you just don’t enjoy playing, so that’s the baseline for trying to get into it. It’s certainly wise advice, as if you’re going to be pouring so many hours into playing a game, it should be one you enjoy. “I think that if you’re looking to get into competitive esports, you really just want to play whatever game interests you.” So, what tips does Gallagher have for people who want to get started in playing esports professionally? Balancing playing Overwatch and sleeping and going to school was a really tight fit.” Tips for beginners That wasn’t always easy when I started, because I had high school. That means I’m playing to win, I’m playing to do the best I can in each of those games. “Usually, the way I practice is I try to get ten hours of serious game-play in a day, where I’m taking the game 100% seriously. So, what does training for a game like Overwatch entail? He definitely really helped my development in the game.” It’s really helpful to have multiple perspectives when you think about the game, because sometimes you can miss something that’s really important. “I like to think I had the basics of the game down, but I’m sure there were many things that he taught me that I may not have figured out on my own. "Usually, the way I practice is I try to get ten hours of serious game-play in a day."Īs for Gallagher, getting found by a couch helped him hone his skills. In 2015, the Dota team won the largest prize payout in esports history. It has a number of teams specialising in a range of games, including Defense of Ancients (Dota), League of Legends, StarCraft II, Halo and, of course, Overwatch. And then we had a good tournament performance and we ended with Evil Geniuses, which was really awesome".Įvil Geniuses is an esports organisation based in San Francisco and founded in 1999 as a Counter-Strike team. I got approached by a coach, and then going from amateur team to amateur team to amateur team I finally landed on the team Eastwind. “I had posted in a Discord channel, which is a chat service which a lot of gamers use, that I was looking for a team.

If you’re playing well, you may get noticed. Players getting found by talent scouts is a familiar tale in traditional sports, so you may be surprised to know that it happens with esports as well. I was thought of as a really good player and ended up getting picked up.” And I thought ‘well, I like strategy games, this might be something that I’m interested in!' I then started playing casually and ended up getting scouted. In my school everyone was really excited about esports, and League of Legends was really cool, so I really just enjoyed the concept of it.

So, how did Gallagher get into playing Overwatch professionally? “It wasn’t really something I’d set out to do originally. “When I have an off day, usually at least half of that day is still spent playing Overwatch. Gallagher even plays Overwatch when he’s not training or taking part in events. “I don’t know if everybody would be able to play the game for that many hours but I still find new things in it, and really enjoy playing. However, Gallagher hasn’t found his enthusiasm for Overwatch waning. If you’re playing any game for that long, and for that many hours a day, you must end up growing a bit bored of it. I just really enjoy playing the game.” Eli Gallagher

#DOES IT COST MONEY TO PLAY OVERWATCH ONLINE PRO#

But, now that I’m on a pro team, I try to put in as many hours as I can.” “When the game came out it was closer to like three to four hours a day, because I didn’t really know anybody in the professional scene, so I was playing with the friends I have from school.

“And that’s really more of a recent development,” he explains. Gallagher has been playing Overwatch, an extremely popular online game, since its launch, and currently plays around 10 hours a day. “It’s really important to stay up on your mechanics and make sure you can still play at that high level.”