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Esports Project Management – During the event!

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So we’ve discussed planning an esports event budget and a few items to look out for. We’ve also discussed planning an esports tournament. If you’re entirely new to esports project management that’s ok too. So now you have the teams, you’ve set a budget and it’s LAN time. All the players have arrived and shit has hit the fan. This will be a part 1, there’s a lot that can happen. Here are some things that can go wrong and what to look out for (I’ve experienced all of them I believe). Some of these are unavoidable but proper planning,

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Esports project management – Budget & Cost of a tournament

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In my latest post, I’m going to give some quick insights into some additional esports project management tips with budgeting & costs of a tournament. I’m not going to discuss revenue generation at this time. That’s for another post. In part 1 of my tutorial of project management in esports, there was a considerable of planning and what to think about when thinking about doing an event. Now we’ve identified the key individuals or who we need, what we need and how much (hopefully) and we need to forecast a budget to see costs. Live event costs are on a

How important is networking in esports for a job?

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It’s estimated that a large portion of jobs are unadvertised and in esports I’d say the number is even higher than regular industries. Off the top of my head, I can count on one hand where I’ve posted an actual job in esports for over several dozen events with BEAT esports. All the people I found / were looking for came via word of mouth or on a reputation basis. This includes graphics design, administrators, talent, broradcasting, production, backend developers and more. The vice versa is also true, even though I was not actively looking, I have been approached for