Individual Goal-driven Training in Finnish Esports Organizations
Syynimaa, Santeri (2023)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202303063064
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202303063064
Tiivistelmä
The thesis was commissioned by the Finnish Esports Federation (SEUL ry), which operates as a central or-ganization for competitive esports in Finland. The commissioning party wanted to gain information about the current situation of the coaches and their expertise regarding individual training practices. Further-more, SEUL ry and the author of this work wanted to create discussion about goal-driven training and its possibilities in esports teams.
The purpose of this thesis was to discover whether goal-driven training could be beneficial and applicable to esports organizations for use in their training programs. The thesis aims to simulate discussion inside the organizations about goal-driven practices. It is hoped that this will encourage the teams to possibly rethink their approach to training individual players. The research was conducted as a qualitative study. Theme interviews were used as the research method. In total four (4) interviewees participated in the study. The interviewees consisted of coaches or employees with close ties to coaching in their respective organiza-tions.
Based on this research, it can be concluded that esports organizations recognize the importance of goals and the effects they have on individual players. Goal-driven training is effective and utilizable for esports teams if implemented correctly. In other words, such goals need to be sufficiently challenging. Further-more, the goals need to be monitored regularly and altered if need be. Goal setting is seen as a tool for esports coaches to utilize in their training planning.
The purpose of this thesis was to discover whether goal-driven training could be beneficial and applicable to esports organizations for use in their training programs. The thesis aims to simulate discussion inside the organizations about goal-driven practices. It is hoped that this will encourage the teams to possibly rethink their approach to training individual players. The research was conducted as a qualitative study. Theme interviews were used as the research method. In total four (4) interviewees participated in the study. The interviewees consisted of coaches or employees with close ties to coaching in their respective organiza-tions.
Based on this research, it can be concluded that esports organizations recognize the importance of goals and the effects they have on individual players. Goal-driven training is effective and utilizable for esports teams if implemented correctly. In other words, such goals need to be sufficiently challenging. Further-more, the goals need to be monitored regularly and altered if need be. Goal setting is seen as a tool for esports coaches to utilize in their training planning.