E-Sports guide launched.

Your source of E-Sports material aimed at your success.

Who am I and why am i giving you advice on gaming?

Today is a great day for E-Sports and a day that marks taking action and following through on something I've been wanting to do for some time. I'm picking up where I've left off on a project I started over a year ago but never actually launched.  I've made it my mission to compile a foundation of knowledge dedicated to ensuring any aspiring gamer the best chance at success.

For you my friend, this means you will be getting insights into the E-Sports world from someone who has gone from rock bottom scrub to winning national titles in less than 2 years and coming 1^st and runner-up at 2 international E-Sports events for my chosen game. To say the least, I've been there and done that.

To start with, an introduction would be appropriate. So my name is Oliver Johnson-Barrett, my in game alias was Huk_!!!!. I say was because I have officially retired from competitive gaming in the past year or so. Before you ask, i'm not the NA SC2 player Huk.

I used to play Counter-Strike: Source competitively, fiercely competitively to say the least. It was my obsession for a solid 4 years. I would clock over 50 hours a week before a tournament. By no means is this a recommendation to practice this much, I was just really bored. I have suffered from over-use injuries and subsequently burnt out and that's part of the reason I have retired from professional video gaming.

What you can expect to see on this site is a compilation of articles that are helpful to an aspiring gamer. The content is not game specific. This means that if you're in COD, BF series or any other fps or team game, you will still benefit from the content on this site.

You might be asking yourself, "How can someone who's only played CSS give advice to people playing other games?". To best answer that question, ill use another example. Lets say you were just getting interested in martial arts, you have spent the last 9 months training in kick boxing and you'd like to start competing. Do you think, that if you met a world class boxer. He could teach you something about competing in a Kick Boxing tournament? Yes, he would be able to share valuable information.

The same goes for E-Sports. There are universal concepts and principles that are constant and relevant to different genres and different games. For example, lets briefly touch on communication.

If a man comes from space and lands on this earth knowing no one. His fate would be eternally dependent on his ability to communicate with other humans. This phrase should indicate to you the importance of effective communication in life and also in team E-Sports.

To say the least, I'm extremely excited about this project and I hope to provide the most helpful and quality content for you, your friends, your dog and my reading audience.