Generación LoL: Entrenamiento psicológico mediante una propuesta holística con un equipo profesional de esports

Abstract

There are various interpretations of what the esports industry actually encompasses. In addition to differing opinions about the market's boundaries, there are disagreements about the term esports itself. We define esports as follows: professional-level competitive gaming in an organized format (tournament or league) with a specific goal/prize, such as winning a championship title or prize money. This is why our esports market sizing includes revenues and viewership from professional competitive gaming content only. We do not include amateur competitions and live streaming around non-organized competitive gaming. Still, live streaming around non-organized competitive gaming is an exciting industry in itself, full of its own developments. We refer to this industry as the live-streaming market, but it is also commonly known as game streaming. The industry sees a number of gamers live broadcasting themselves online while playing. Some of these streamers have grown to celebrity status, including Ninja and Shroud. The former has grown into a household name over the past year or so. We see the live-streaming market as separate to esports. Although there is a significant audience overlap between both markets, their content and monetization strategies differ-for now. The lines are beginning to blur, owing to the increasing frequency at which esports and live streaming formats are overlapping. For example, popular streamers are competing in pro-level esports more often. We also make a clear distinction between amateur participation in tournaments, competitive games in general, and esports. Amateur participation in competitive gaming is vastly different from the professional scene. Even if amateur competitions offer prizes, the focus is on participation and not on entertaining viewers. While we do size the market for amateur competitive participants, such as those who compete in online tournaments like ESL, FACEIT, or Toornament and/or in LAN events, they are not a part of our esports audience market sizing.

Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

“…Consequently, one can see how over the years, the development of professional esports has positioned teams and players within a performance context, facilitating the initial understanding of psychological factors underlying esports expertise (Campbell et al, 2018;Himmelstein, Liu, & Shapiro, 2017;Pedraza-Ramirez, 2019).…”

“…Understanding the interplay of cognitive and behavioural performance in esports could be facilitated by studies on, for instance, hormone responses and heart rate variability and by making use of brain stimulation techniques, eye tracking, and brain activation measures such as electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. (10) Understanding the impact of a rapidly changing esports system: Esports is evolving into a high-performance environment where coaches and players are required to implement appropriate structures and models to achieve higher levels of performance (Pedraza-Ramirez, 2019). This continuous evolution could be a challenge in its own right from a research and applied sports psychology perspective (Cottrell et al, 2018;Steinkuehler, 2019).…”

Psicología y gamers profesionales en esports: análisis temático y agenda de investigación

“…Tema 1: Entrenamiento psicológico (n = 8 artículos). Hace referencia a los trabajos que citan la necesidad de la intervención psicológica o experiencia profesional del psicólogo/a con los gamers, por ejemplo, para el crecimiento personal y/o mejora del rendimiento en los esports (García & Chamorro, 2018;García-Naveira, 2019;Herrera, 2019;Himmelstein et al, 2017;Mendoza, 2019;Pedraza-Ramirez, 2019;Poulus et al, 2020;Smith et al, 2019).…”

Factores psicológicos y crisis de resultados en un equipo profesional de esports

“…Por el contrario, dentro de los aspectos negativos, distintos autores destacan las largas horas de práctica a los que están sujetos los gamers (6-12 horas diarias en función del videojuego), aunque no existe un método de entrenamiento que garantice un alto rendimiento en esports (García-Naveira, 2019;Pedraza-Ramirez, 2019;Sabtan et al, 2022). Además, diferentes estudios indican que a mayor dedicación a los esports y videojuegos se asocia con un peor estilo de vida y hábitos menos saludables, observándose una menor actividad física o mayor sedentarismo, aumento de la masa corporal, peor nutrición (horarios, variedad y cantidad de comida, así como consumo de bebidas) y menor duración/ calidad del sueño (somnolencia y variedad de horarios de descanso), desembocando en problemas de salud general (p.ej., obesidad y diabetes), salud física (p.ej., lesión de muñeca, espalda y visión) y salud psicológica (p.ej., ansiedad, estrés, depresión y burnout), entre otros (Bányai et al, 2019;Chan et al, 2022;García-Naveira et al, 2021;Hong, 2022;Pereira et al, 2022;Sabtan et al, 2022;Shulze et al, 2021).…”

“…La presente muestra juega entre 6 y 9 horas diarias, de los cuales 5 o 6 horas son de entrenamiento (en equipo e individual) y 1 o 3 horas a otros videojuegos como ocio y entretenimiento. Resultados similares de alta dedicación en gamers profesionales fueron obtenido en otros trabajos (García-Naveira, 2019;Pedraza-Ramirez, 2019;Sabtan et al, 2022).…”