We had the possibility to sit down 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 a terrific interview for esports followers.
Whats up Mavera, to start with, I’d like to speak a bit about you. How’s life and your profession going?
Thanks. All the pieces’s going properly — as standard, it’s fairly busy. Day by day is spent making an attempt 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 the most effective and worst traits of Turkish gamers in comparison with international ones?
The very best half is that Turkish gamers are each gifted and appear to have stronger causes to succeed. However truthfully, that’s additionally their greatest weak spot. Many younger gamers are so decided to “make it” that they crash arduous when confronted with setbacks. In aggressive sports activities, profitable and dropping are each a part of the sport. Expertise and arduous work matter, after all, however the psychological facet is much more essential than it seems to be from the surface.
Are you able to inform us a bit about how issues are going with S2G currently? Is the whole lot as you hoped?
Throughout the offseason, we reorganized along with S2G administration. We’re focusing extra on youth improvement and the academy. Our most important purpose is to deliver new younger skills into the ecosystem. As an alternative 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 up to now. After all, we will’t work with all of them, however at the very least they obtained to expertise what an expert tryout is like. We met nice individuals alongside the way in which, and that is an space that deserves much more funding.
In VALORANT, in comparison with CS, youthful gamers appear to seek out alternatives and success extra simply. Why do you assume that’s?
I believe it’s simpler to rise in VALORANT. Younger gamers have higher adaptability and might maintain high-effort work for longer. Possibly it’s in our genes, however I really consider Turkey is an FPS nation. Now we have a gold mine, however we’re not digging it. What we have to do is extract and refine these skills 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 arduous to decide on. I at all times attempt to join with each group I’ve labored with. I’m truly a software program engineer, however I’m nonetheless actively working within the esports trade as a result of I’m obsessed with it. And whenever you love what you do, it’s solely pure to care concerning the individuals who contribute to it — each the great and the dangerous ones.
What are your ideas on the “lobbying” difficulty in Turkish esports?
I don’t have a optimistic opinion about it. It’s one thing we urgently have to do away with. Determination-makers should take motion. Individuals have to 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 attempt my finest 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 had been the principle variations?
They had been completely different experiences. At Hearth Flux, I solely helped the ladies’s group part-time, however at DVM, I coached a global girls’s group for the primary time — and it was a terrific expertise.
To be sincere, 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 discovered and taught lots. These women had been so skilled and hardworking that they might set an instance for males’s groups. They got here to follow each 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 group follow? What do you pay essentially the most consideration to?
Self-discipline. Not simply in angle, however in the whole lot — 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 group member has to provide their finest. It’s additionally my accountability to make sure that occurs. For my part, self-discipline is step one towards professionalism in aggressive group sports activities.
