{"id":1794751,"date":"2022-12-14T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/?post_type=station&p=1794751"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:36:34","slug":"league-of-legends-coach-invert-launches-esports-coaches-guild","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/league-of-legends-coach-invert-launches-esports-coaches-guild\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends coach Invert launches Esports Coaches Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian League of Legends coach Gabriel \u2018Invert\u2019 Zoltan-Johan<\/strong> has launched a trade association for esports coaches called the Esports Coaches Guild<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Registered as a 501C6 non-profit organisation, the guild will provide legal resources, training opportunities to its members and advocate for LCS<\/strong> and North American Collegiate League<\/strong> (NACL) coaches.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The organisation is already accepting membership payments at three separate tiers: $300, $400, and $500 (~\u00a3242, \u00a3322, and \u00a3403) per year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Esports Coaches Guild will see Zoltan-Johan draw on his own professional coaching journey, beginning at the University of Toronto, then moving to FlyQuest<\/strong>\u2019s LCS squad and finally as Assistant Coach for Immortals<\/strong>. The organisational model will revolve around the LCS and VALORANT<\/strong>\u2019s pre-existing, but nascent, players\u2019 organisations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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While educational services for incoming coaches will arrive in January, the organisation has a wide range of plans for the future. It aims to eventually hold events to \u201cadvance esports coaching and competition\u201d and even wants to subsidise member travel according to financial need.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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It is currently in discussions with Riot Games and LCS management to represent coaches institutionally in order to reflect their needs in discussions around rule changes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Zoltan-Johan told the Jacob Wolf report<\/a> he expects \u2018around 70 to 75\u2019 coaches to join between the LCS and NACL, reflecting his connections and own coaching background. He also claims that there was a distinct need for a coach\u2019s organisation to represent their unique interests. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cThe job itself has comparatively low job security, coaches don\u2019t often have many rights, and often a lot of coaches are not represented by any sort of legal team or agent just because of potential conflict of interests,\u201d said Zoltan-Johan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cSo agents more often represent players because players can make them a larger commission and they don\u2019t want to deal with situations where they\u2019re representing a coach and a player, and there could be a potential conflict there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Patrick is a freelance writer for ESI based in London, reporting on esports marketing and partnerships trends. He’s currently playing VALORANT and Overwatch but always looking for the next big thing in competitive gaming.\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1794752,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[78],"artist":[86],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[18744,18711,7387,18723,5509,18119,36786,14081,10610,5218,177,18710,18750,5224,6420,18732,5536,17677,3862,5739,9445,18726,13258,18715,18719,18742,18712,18714,18729,5227,18749,36710,6430,16767,3702,18708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1794751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1794751"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1794751"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1794751"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1794751"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1794751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}