Stanislaw gives advice to the next generation of North American esports players: lower your ego and trust your teammates

Former EG Black player and one of the most experienced esports players in North America, Peter stanislaw Jarguz, has released a Twitlonger in which he shared his thoughts on the state of the scene in his home region. He listed aspects that the next generation of North American esports athletes will need to work on to bring back the region's former glory.

According to Jarguz, the North American pro scene was at its peak in 2019, when EG, Liquid, 100 Thieves, Cloud9, Complexity, Furia, MIBR, and Ghost were playing their matches in the region and putting their all into it, providing stiff competition to the best teams in the world.

Jarguz believes that the new generation of Counter-Strike players does not know what it takes for a team to win, and it has nothing to do with individual skills. Therefore, he highlighted three things that the new generation of American esports players should work on to have a chance to succeed in CS2.

READ MORE: Stanislaw Left EG Black — HexT Took His Place

Ego

Stanislaw says that an inflated ego creates a false sense that you have everything you need to win, and that your teammates are primarily to blame for failures. Not to mention the perception of constructive criticism.

It’s toxic to yourself and everyone around you. It makes you not try as hard as you need to because you think you’ve already got it. It doesn’t allow you to take criticism which helps you improve. It gives you this sense of superiority and makes you think that you can disrespect other people. Guess what? While you’re sitting there feeding your ego and putting others down, a true winner is keeping their head down and working.

  Peter stanislaw Jarguz  

Professionalism

Currently, many players in North America disregard practice matches, arriving late, although each such match is valuable.

It’s shocking to me to see the amount of teams that show up late to a scheduled practice, or cancel practice altogether because of petulance. Teams can’t hold it together anymore. You don’t respect each other’s time, or anybody else’s. Practice is already scarce, so you better make the best of every second of every scrim because you don’t know how many scrims you’ll be able to get per day.

  Peter stanislaw Jarguz  

Trust

It is no secret that without trust within the team, it is rare to achieve any long-term success. stanislaw calls for being honest with each other, openly discussing who and who in the team needs to improve, giving time for it, and accepting criticism oneself.

Teams are so quick to change players without giving each other a chance to improve. On the contrary, individuals also aren’t taking the chance to improve when given the chance. Build trust within your team and you’ll be able to build something that can last. Historically, the core of most top teams have been together for a year or more before starting to see results. Every single struggle you go through is an opportunity to grow as individuals and as a group. Only when someone has failed to improve after being given several warnings about the same persistent issues is when you should consider a change. This means speaking up and being open about what everyone needs to improve on. It means being patient and allowing the person to improve. It also means being humble, and taking that criticism in and using it as fuel to push yourself to become better.

  Peter stanislaw Jarguz  

Recall that yesterday stanislaw left the EG Black roster after almost a year in the team. Throughout his tenure, the Canadian earned only about $5,000 in prize money.

Source: Twitlonger