It's Everyones Fault But Mine!

Through out my time of playing games competitively, which is longer than anyone I know personally I've ran into some interesting people and went through a lot of learning experiences that can take your mind for a ride.

When it comes to competitive gaming a lot of people look to their mouse, keyboard, their aim, reflexes, and strategy. While those things may be part of your success there is one key that is always over looked and usually sets the pros apart from the joes. The mental game. It's one of the hardest traits to perfect and control in competitive gaming. I'm talking about your "nerd ragers" the guys that come up with an excuse that seemingly just isn't their fault as to why they lost. It's either someone on their teams fault or it's something about the game. These are temporary fixes for the amateur gamers mind. When all he's doing is killing the mood, the moral, and will of the players on his team and himself.

If you watch the true pros in any game, from 1v1 to 5v5, even sports, the difference is astounding in how they conduct themselves from amateurs. Time and time again I've heard pro players blame themselves for a loss when in reality it was their team mate that lost the match. However to the pro blaming himself, the fact of the matter is that he can find something, somewhere that he could have done to elevate his play and essentially carry his team mate out of the situation.

Not once have I seen pro players slam, bash, blame, or scream at their team mate. It's simple really. You as a player have no idea what your team mate was going through at the time. He could have just had a bad game, he could have just made a simple mistake being under pressure. Which ever it is the player knows why, he doesn't need to be reminded with someones harsh tone. If he wants to talk about it he will. Otherwise let him try to correct it in his mind without pounding his already low moral down even further.

I've been guilty of these things in the past. Mainly in team games. Whining, screaming, blaming. It never accomplished anything. In fact it just made me harder to play with as a team mate. People dreaded playing with me. It wasn't fun for my team. I wasn't even having fun. It seemed as if everything I did in game I was complaining about something, blaming others for why I'm not at the top of said game. When really it was me all along. I think once players begin to realize the complex mental aspect of competitive gaming they are able to bring it back down to having fun and doing your best to get the gold.