The Hangzhou Asian Games will be held from September 23 to October 8. E-sports has attracted a lot of attention because it was approved for inclusion in the Asian Games competition for the first time. Last week, Tencent Esports announced the list of national training teams for the Hangzhou Asian Games Kings of Honor project (Asian Games version).
Many netizens are particularly concerned about how this list was selected, what is the daily routine of e-sports players of the Asian Games training team, and whether it is the same as the training of the league. With these questions in mind, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily interviewed Li Tuo, the proposed head coach of the national training team for e-sports of the Hangzhou Asian Games (the King’s Glory Asian Games version project), and Huang Cheng, deputy general manager of Tencent Tianmei E-sports, to reveal the secrets of Hangzhou Asian Games e-sports The life of the training team.
Online and offline closed training
For Li To, many friends who are not familiar with e-sports may not know him, but he is a veteran in the e-sports circle: he was a professional e-sports player, and then joined a team professional esports league as the head coach.
Many coaches may have such a resume, but why can he serve as the head coach of the Hangzhou Asian Games National Coaching Team? This is because the head coach of the AOV Chinese team in the Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games performance event is Li Tuo, who led the national team to win the championship that year.
Joining the national training team again, Li Tuo summed up his mood in eight words: “It’s very honored and very proud”. Speaking about the changes compared to 2018, Li Tuo said bluntly: “The new change is that there are fewer players in 2018. With the rapid development of the e-sports industry, there are 22 candidates for the Games training team Asian this time, and each of them has a special strength.”
For this national training team, what the outside world is most curious about is how they were chosen from among so many e-sports players. Li Tuo said bluntly: “We have held online training camps for the players before, and we will start offline closed training camps soon. As for the selection criteria is multi-dimensional , they will not be directly determined by the results of the competition.”
The Hangzhou Asian Games will be held from September 23 to October 8. E-sports has attracted a lot of attention because it has been approved for inclusion in the Asian Games for the first time Whether the national team can e-sports winning medals has become natural. the focus of attention from the outside world. Li Tuo’s expectation for the players, “is to win the gold medal.” For the Asian Games, Li Tuo and his coaching staff resigned from all positions to focus on serving the national coaching team.
Take advantage of the home court to do a good job in logistics support
As one of the seven e-sports events in the Hangzhou Asian Games, Tencent Tianmei E-sports, the copyright owner of King of Glory (Asian Games version), undertook the training for the Asian Games. Huang Cheng, deputy general manager of Tencent Tianmei E-sports, said, “The State General Administration of Sports mainly authorizes us to make the early recommendation of players and coaches, as well as support in logistics and training centers. We will actively complete it .”
It is not too much to describe the training base of the national training team as “detailed, scientific and reasonable” – the training base of 5,000 square meters and 20 training rooms can meet the training life of players in four events at the same time. From hardware to software, Tencent E-sports has given full support – including the players’ daily training schedule, as well as the network for on-site training, training equipment, etc. “We hope to provide each team, player and coach a stable training environment and competition will help China’s e-sports maintain a leading and favorable position in terms of overall strength.”
Train more than 13 hours a day
Training camp is about to start, and the training team’s work schedule has sparked heated discussions on the Internet: waking up at 8:30, breakfast, going to bed at midnight, and over 13 hours of training every day— — Netizens lament that professional e-sports players are very hard , It is not as simple as playing games, while praising that the schedule is regular and very healthy.
How was this timetable drawn up? Huang Cheng said: “The current set of work and rest plans for training players has actually been used since 2018, and it has indeed achieved relatively good results. “Huang Cheng revealed that such a schedule is already used throughout the promotional country.
Compared to the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Huang admitted that the Hangzhou Asian Games is more convenient than competing abroad. After all, we don’t need to go abroad to adapt to the game environment; playing at home should be better than that in terms of training and general preparation for games. At the same time, Huang Cheng also hopes to use the glory of the king to become the official event of the Asian Games, in order to better regulate competition training and player selection work from the ecological level of the league. “Maybe KPL will put the training of young players in a more important position in the next two to three years.”
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