Stream Sniping is an exploitative tactic used against streamers. The amount of information that can be gained from watching a player’s stream is significantly vast. Map information, vision control, strategies, team positioning, and a whole lot more.
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
When I started planning esports tournaments almost 10 years ago, I didn’t have much of a clue into a lot of things. It’s one thing to budget out a tournament but it’s another thing entirely to plan for rules and the esports tournament itself! Competitive integrity and rulesets were definitely one of them. I assumed that everyone who wanted to be there was going to play clean and play hard. Back then the tournaments I was hosting were for around $100. The highest tournament i’ve held was for 1000x that at $100,000. The rigor and what’s needed at those levels