{"id":118987,"date":"2017-07-10T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118987"},"modified":"2017-07-10T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:22:16","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-bravado-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/118987-behind-the-scenes-of-bravado-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of Bravado Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bravadogaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bravado Gaming<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is considered the best competitive gaming organisation in South Africa, with teams competing in CS:GO, Call of Duty, and Dota 2.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has taken top honours at multiple prestigious tournaments, including first place for CS:GO and second place for Dota 2 at the R1-million\u00a0Telkom Digital Gaming League Masters tournament at rAge 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Bravado also won the VS Gaming Masters Cup 2017 in July.<\/p>\n<p>Big corporates including Dell and Intel are partners of Bravado, helping its players and employees treat eSports as a serious profession.<\/p>\n<p>Bravado is headed up by CEO Andreas Hadjipaschali, who provided MyBroadband with insight into who makes up the organisation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Players and coaches<\/h3>\n<p>Bravado Gaming currently competes across three divisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/li>\n<li>Dota 2<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CS:GO and Dota 2 teams each have five players and their own coach, while the Call of Duty team has five players \u2013 one of whom doubles as the team\u2019s coach.<\/p>\n<p>Bravado also has four people who work in management and the commercial side of the business, and further employs freelancers and full-time staff for content and production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn total, the Bravado Gaming organisation consists of around 26 individuals,\u201d said\u00a0Hadjipaschali.<\/p>\n<p>Taking these people and making sure they work to stay at the top requires a combination of culture, determination, and dedication, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important that there is a good synergy between management and players. At the same time, it\u2019s very important that the personal and professional aspect of what we\u2019re out to achieve is clearly understood. We\u2019re always looking at growing from strength to strength on a daily basis, whether it be as Bravado as a whole or players individually,\u201d said\u00a0Hadjipaschali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a player\u2019s perspective, before any player joins Bravado, it\u2019s important to understand a ton of requirements \u2013 such as the attitude, dedication, and determination of a player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always set our initiatives and foundations based on long-term rather than short-term, and it\u2019s very important the player understands what he wants \u2013 so that we can simultaneously work on the same objective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hadjipaschali said players are required to get along with each other and have a mutual goal, while at the same time\u00a0meeting the goals of Bravado Gaming.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Getting too old<\/h3>\n<p>One of the common beliefs in professional gaming is that once a player gets closer to his thirties, his time is running out as an eSports athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Hadjipaschali, however, said this is not always the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can clearly see that from individuals who are still playing professionally overseas. One example being Virtus Pro, which fields players over the age of 30 and maintain themselves as one of the best CS:GO teams in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/218000-the-best-competitive-pc-gamers-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/217546-most-popular-competitive-games-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Most popular competitive games in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bravado Gaming\u00a0is considered the best competitive gaming organisation in South Africa, with teams competing in CS:GO, Call of Duty, and Dota 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":104821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3652,289,1611],"class_list":["post-118987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-bravado-gaming","tag-competitive-gaming","tag-esports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118989,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118987\/revisions\/118989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}