How Can You Join a Professional eSports Team?

You will have to climb your way up the “corporate ladder”. This is a serious job and if you would like to be a pro player you would have to start playing and joining a team that would allow you to eventually become a better team player, compete in online tournaments, and perhaps get noticed. Once you start playing tournaments and professionals from the industry notice your game, you might get sponsored. Once you start winning online, the next goal is to start joining and winning live tournaments. Then the next step is to become a pro gamer. Before joining any professional teams though, we do recommend getting to know the popular eSports teams out there, knowing which tournaments they compete in, which games, which platforms the players use, how do the players communicate with the audience and much more. Basically, do your homework first.

Popular eSports Teams

ESports are not that different from any other professional sport in terms of essential qualities required for a participant to stand out in sharp contrast to fellow competitors and be successful. It most certainly takes the drive, discipline, commitment, self-confidence, and competitive spirit for one to make their mark in the world of games. The ranking of most prominent eSports teams is mainly defined by the overall tournament results achieved and the prize money earned. Since August 2017, Team Liquid lead the ranking with the highest overall prize money earnings of $24 million USD from 1418 tournaments. As one of the most popular teams in eSports history, it is represented by gamers across 28 different countries. Their top three players are residents from Germany, Bulgaria, and Finland, listed in descending order. Ranked second, the North American eSports organization Evil Geniuses has gained total prize money of $20 million USD from 736 tournaments. It is represented across 18 countries with its best three players located in Pakistan and United States, listed in descending order. As there are roughly 500 professional eSports teams, the overview will be concluded with Team OG. Represented solely across 10 countries worldwide, it is ranked third in terms of total prize money earned, namely $17 million USD from 49 tournaments.

The Best Swedish eSports Pro Teams to Follow

Sweden is one of the world’s leaders in eSports and eSports is now a booming business in Sweden. Here are some of the best Swedish eSports teams that have left their mark as true champions of their games. The two most famous Swedish eSports teams are Alliance and Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Alliance

Alliance is one of the professional esports organizations in Sweden. Alliance teams compete in Dota 2, Hearthstone, the Super Smash Bros., Fortnite. Since 2016, Alliance has become a player-owned organization. The Alliance team which competes in Dota 2 is the team which the largest single prize money in esports in The International 2013. The current players include Maximilian Bröcker, Michael Vu, Samuel Svahn, Aydin Sarkohi, Tommy Le.

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Ninjas in Pyjamas, also known as NiP.is one of the famous professional esports organizations based in Sweden. They are very strong on Counter-Strike. The team was started back in 2000. They were known under the names of SK Sweden and SK Scandinavia. They are the first European team to enter the Asian market. Some of their current players include f0rest, GeT_RiGhT, REZ, Lekr0, draken (Stand-in), pita (Coach).