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eSports

Tournament Experience

What to expect if you want to go pro

By Jawwaad Flaendorp

A few weeks back myself and Housefly, a fellow PCM staffer, decided to enter the GGN Paladins

Frozen Frenzy tournament. I’m here reporting back on our experience and hopefully give you

some tips for competitions.

Being our first tournament, I would lie if I say Match Day

that we weren’t a bit nervous. It didn’t help Match day arrived and we got together on

that we had to assemble a team in a few days Discord 30 minutes before we were scheduled

and still manage to play practice matches as to play, going over strategies and picks.

a team, but we made the best of our situation. We were anxious, waiting for our match to

We put in a few hours of practice, but not a start. Whilst we were waiting we got to see

tremendous amount, and decided on roles the brackets and did a little research on our

we would play. I might add that we didn’t opponents through the Paladins.guru website.

expect to win the tournament, as we did not We checked out champions our opponents

have enough time to practice as a unit and frequently played, account levels etc, just to

we would’ve been comfortable just reaching give us a little bit of a strategic advantage.

the second round if possible. GGN did a really As the time of our match approached, we got

stellar job of organizing the event and their ourselves into a groove and focused. It’s the

communication through Discord to the team time of our match, but unfortunately we got

captains was on point. a bye and automatic draft into the second

round.Which was a good and bad in a way.
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