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07-21-2016, 10:49 PM
How to practice like a 'Counter-Strike' pro
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Playing esports for a living is more than a full-time job. Take out the constant traveling (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/counter-strike-travel/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial) back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and top Counter-Strike players are still clocking in 40 or more hours a week.
SEE ALSO: The top 'Counter-Strike' plays from the ELeague LCQ semifinals (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/counter-strike-eleague-lcq/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial)
When teams aren't at tournaments, they're playing with each other five days a week, honing their skills and going over strategies. One of the top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams, FlipSid3 Tactics, has practices from Sunday to Thursday starting around 3 p.m., so it's **t your typical 9 to 5 job.
"For one or two hours we're just talking about strats," FlipeSid3's Yegor "Markeloff" Markelov (http://mashable.com/2016/07/14/counter-strike-markeloff/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial) said. "And then we have like six practice scrimmages a day."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/counter-strike-practice/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Playing esports for a living is more than a full-time job. Take out the constant traveling (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/counter-strike-travel/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial) back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and top Counter-Strike players are still clocking in 40 or more hours a week.
SEE ALSO: The top 'Counter-Strike' plays from the ELeague LCQ semifinals (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/counter-strike-eleague-lcq/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial)
When teams aren't at tournaments, they're playing with each other five days a week, honing their skills and going over strategies. One of the top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams, FlipSid3 Tactics, has practices from Sunday to Thursday starting around 3 p.m., so it's **t your typical 9 to 5 job.
"For one or two hours we're just talking about strats," FlipeSid3's Yegor "Markeloff" Markelov (http://mashable.com/2016/07/14/counter-strike-markeloff/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Tango-All-Partial) said. "And then we have like six practice scrimmages a day."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/counter-strike-practice/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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