It's a peaceful Saturday afternoon, and you find yourself without any pressing matters to attend to for the whole day. Aside from playing video games, do you want to know what else you could be doing with your time? Thanks to the wonderful thing that is a growing esports community, you can sit back and watch other people play video games. And in this day and age, there is no shortage ♌oꦛf games that are offering an esports scene for us to delve into.
With the understanding of how a game operates (it helps if you've played it yourself at some point), an esport event is a riveting experience. It might even make you consider becoming an esports player yourself. You don't have to lie about your feelings here. We've all been there. You can admit that you've let your imagination run wild sometimes, dreaming about the accolades, the prize pools, and the endless, paid hours of playing video games in your future career. The life of a professional esports pꦫlayer sounds like paradise to the avid gamer.
Before you get carried away with this idea, let's come back down to Earth for a second. I, too, have had﷽ these crazy notions run ram🌳pant in my brain. But of course, reality came knocking and made sure I knew about the restrictions I would be under if I became an actual esports player. Well, reality and a good search engine. So before you dive headfirst into your esports career, make sure you know what you're getting yourself into. Read on if you want to learn about a professional esports player's code of conduct.
25 Professionals Shoul𒆙d Not Engage In Hate Speech
A professional es♓ports player should be exactly how they are described as being: professional. In nearly any esports league's code of conduct guidelines for aspiring players, there is a behavioral stipulation that demands the highest levels of respect from the playജers.
A professional esports player should never speak in a disrespectful manner toward anybody, be it a player from an opposing team or a spectator. Esports players should be paragons of civilized behavior. So don't expect to curse at your buddie🌄s/foes the way you might normally do.
24 Never Abandon The Official Language Of The🐼 League 🅰
Esports leagues are regional affairs, or at least the majority of them are. That means they take place in a certain area of the 🉐world. Depending on where these leagues are centered, the official language of the league changes.
For example, is English, and it is expected that their esports players have an understanding of it. Knowing the official language of their league is a must for any esports player. So make s😼ure you double-check what exactly that is before signing ಌyourself up.
23 Boosting🐎 Your Performance With Certain Substances Is A No-No ඣ
There are actually many similarities between a phys🌄ical sport and an esport, despite what you might believe. One way in which they are the same is a rule against certain performance-enhancing substances.
For esports, medi🅺cations that are used to treat ADHD could boost a player's focus unfairly. As a professional esports player, yo🌌u are expected to reject a practice that gives you an undue advantage over another player. Instead, you should rely on your own, home-grown talents.
22 If You Worked On Theꦗ Game Yourself, You Can't Play It Professionally 💃
A shame though it might be, i🌜f you are a developer on a video game or a representative of the company that published it, you can't be an esports player for it.
For one thing, if you worked on the game, you would definitely have more of an insight on how to play it than the average gamer. For another, you'd potentially be making money playing a game you already got paid to work on. Neither your employer or the audience would be pleased with💦 that.
21 You Can't Take Your Hoodie To Work 🦩
A lot of leagues, do not want you to obscure your face when playing at an esports event. So you know that comfortable hoodie you keep by your computer chair while you game in case you get cold? You're going to have to leave it behind𝔉.
Professional esporꦛts players are not allowed to wear hoodies💟 at events.
They are a♈lso not allowed to wear hats. It's a strange rule because I've always considered the hoodie, a cap, and a pair of sweatpants to be staples of a game🌞r's wardrobe.
20 Esports Players Can Only Bet On Themselves M🅘etaphorically ♍
An esports player cannot bet on matches within ꧒their own competition. That means they can't place money on the chance that a certain team will win or lose. They can't even bet on the chance that their own team will win.
Placing bets on your own match raises the risk that the outcome of the game may become fixed, which is another no-no we'll cover in a later entry. So just to reiterate, you can't gamble on your own 🌱games. It's a plain and simple rule esports players can't break.
19 Messing With A Game's Pr🌠og🐠ramming Is One Way To Get Banned
In no way, shape, or form can an ꦦesports player finagle their way to a win by changing the way a game is pl෴ayed. I'm talking about the straight-up modding or hacking of a game.
E🦋ven in casual gaming, I'm not fond of w♕hen player's mess with a game's system. If a league catches you messing around with their game, you can bet your sweatpants-wearing posterior that you are going to get kicked out. It's an obvious rule to have, and one that I fully support.
18 Activel꧑y Failing Is A Huge🌟 Mistake In Competitive Gaming
F𒁏or those of you who don't know what fixing a match means, it's when someone arranges for a game to turn out a certain way. It can entail having a team lose a game on purpose.
A professional esports play🅺er is never🔴 allowed to throw a game.
Each person who plays a game must play it to the absolute bes🔯t of their ability. Not only does fixing a game take the fun and suspense out of a match, but it can also lead to players ge🉐tting banned from the league they're playing in.
17 ✃ How Old Must A Professional Esports Player Be? ജ
No matter the fact that you began playing video gam𝓀es when you were six, you have to be seventeen in order to compete in a prize pool tournament. If you are any younger, you must have a chaperone that is twenty-one-years-old or older.
However, that's if the particular game you're playing is suitable for your age. If the game is rated M for Mature or 🅰something like that, you absolutely must be at least the minimum age stipulated for that rating. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
16 𓆏 ♛You Cannot Ignore Your Media Obligations
Certain esports leagues requir𒈔e their teams to be 🍌available for media-related activities. is one of those leagues. One of the rules for being a part of their league is availability for media obligations.
OWL players have to be ready for publicity.
This is a🤡n understandable rule on Blizzard E🐟ntertainment's part. Their league relies on sponsors and media attention. Having their players gain name recognition is a bonus for their company and for the players themselves.