Esports: A Billion Dollar Opportunity

The rise of the internet & technology has pivoted the gaming industry from a mere million-dollar industry to a multi-billion dollar thriving industry with major firms like Facebook, Amazon, Sony & Microsoft acquiring major innovations & at the same time launching their own services like streaming, cloud-based subscription, consoles & much more. Esports is one such domain which, has lately garnered a lot of audiences. Pandemic has further helped this industry to go mainstream. Introduction of mobile titles like PUBG & COD: Warzone has further reduced barriers to entry thus allowing more gamers to pour in. What was once a subdomain of the sports industry has grown large enough to be classified as an industry of its own. As the industry grows, technologies like artificial intelligence & automation are making their way into mature titles like CS: GO. Players can now make use of AI engines to help chart their strategies and have that edge over others of the same league.

Any player, be it an amateur or a seasoned veteran’s success in esports titles like Counterstrike: Global Offensive & Valorant are often determined by 3 factors: Skill, Team Play & Strategy. When skills are concerned, it all boils down to the amount of grind that the player has put in to master the reflexes, crosshair placement, peeking angles, and much more. As someone has rightly said, the ideal way to get better at anything is to practice, practice and practice. While grinding your way up the ladder, you will have learned many basic strategies which can help you in deathmatches but when it comes to 5v5 matches, just the basics are not enough. The best of the best players gets beat up in team deathmatches if they do not follow a set strategy in sync with the team members.

A good synergy among your team members is the heart and soul of perfectly timed executions and is especially important when executing strategies that require time coordination. Synergy also ensures that your teammates play off each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Team play is as important when it comes to team deathmatches. In an ideal team play, players know exactly what their role is, thus ensuring correct communication becomes a crucial factor in ensuring a smooth play.

But synergy & team play can only get you so far. Thus, following a set strategy becomes important. Your team might contain amazing players belonging to global ranks, but what is the point if the members do not have an idea of the execution or the strategy for a specific round.

Traditionally, maestros use the clipboard or Google Docs to base out their strategies for every game, stating what every player should do. Thus, it becomes tedious work for the team leader to type it all out. But what if you are told that the whole process could be automated. All you must do is just input your play style in an AI model and you will automatically be suggested the best strategies for every match based on your play style.

Introducing StratRepo for CS: GO. A web tool saves you the time and the effort of brainstorming and typing down your strategies. StratRepo helps the teams to efficiently strategize their game with the help of in-game variables for the optimal output. The way this works is by analyzing the matches you have already played and then using your play style to form custom strategies best suited for you and your team only so that you get a shot at being the next Gla1ve. With StratRepo you can also tweak the strategies to best suit you and the team, after all, it is the team sync that matters. From the weapon of choice to accuracy and damage caused by each of them, StratRepo pays attention to the minutest of the details, like how audible your footsteps were at the time you got flanked. Strategies formulated by StratRepo will help you dominate your tier. The same has also been claimed by the customers who have been using it for a while. Every event is logged into StratRepo, from timestamps to your exact position at the early, mid, and late-round. All these parameters help the AI engine to churn out the best possible results so that your team can ace that strategy

So, you are an avid Valorant player and would like to skill-up your team’s game. Well, worry not as SwiftSkill, the parent company of StratRepo also brings to you Xonimo, the only place for customized Valorant strategies curated according to your play style. Following the same footsteps, like its sister tool StratRepo, Xonimo aims to develop the pro-strategy for your team based on different maps of Valorant.

Targeted towards students and career professionals, SwiftSkill aims to create their niche with StratRepo & Xonimo in the booming online community of esports to upskill the player’s game by helping create exclusively designed strategies for their teams. Investors who are interested in SwiftSkill contact Anil Kr. Peri at [email protected]

This article is written by Somaditya Singh (https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/somadityasingh/)