Bill Elafros

Why do esports players wear two headsets?

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If you’ve seen an esports event, chances are you’ve seen esports players wear two headsets or event three. The reason for this is for preventing cheating at your esports event. How does this prevent cheating? The inner earbuds are for in game audio so the player can hear their game and teammates. Ie, Dota 2 audio, etc. The outer headsets (depending on setup) feed whitenoise OVER their in game audio so they cannot hear the casters, fans etc. An alternative is a completely sound proof headset without white noise and white noise coming in from their own in ears. A

How to market and promote your esports tournament / event

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Today i’ll talk about how to market your event or tournament in esports. There’s no one way to do it so I’m going to list my own experiences and best practices. If you haven’t already, check out my things to look out for in esports while planning an esports event, project budgets and how much esports tournaments may cost, dealing with pro teams and getting sponsors. For the record, the largest amount of views I’ve personally done is around 8 million total reach over 4 days (across two brands, excluding team reach) and around 110,000 concurrent viewers on twitch.tv and