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Louk and Sam come up with the idea

I always loved playing Counter-Strike competitively and had a good level at CS 1.6 when I was young. With Covid, I started playing CS:GO again and I started to want to train again to be part of my company corporate esports team. As I was doing a sport program at the same time, I tried to come up with a similar structure for my gaming training as I could convince my wife to let me play for two hours per day, it had to be efficient.

I quickly realize through my research that professional gamers are surrounded by qualified staff, technology and resources to help them improve and perform at a high level. This includes gaming coaches, fitness coaches, nutritionists, mental coaches and career direction.

On my side, I had nothing except from a tons of unorganized and unrated quality Youtube videos. I spotted a problem that I had.

On the same day, I happened to have a call with my friend and co-founder Sam and as he has 10 year experience in tennis coaching, I talked to him about this problem and that it could be fun to try to solve it.

As much as I was excited, I was a bit scared too as we both had side projects, even though mine was really impacted with the Covid situation.

A few hours later, we both decided to take one week to leave our current project and go all-in on this one as it was a topic that we were really passionate about.

On this day, our esports journey started!

, Co-founder of Icon for Valor Esports
Valor Esports
on November 9, 2020