How much do pros practice? - Page 6

On April 09 2012 23:24 huehuehuehue wrote:

NesTea probably doesn't practice as much as other Koreans, because AFAIK he doesn't live in the IM house, so he practices a lot from PCbangs etc.

On April 09 2012 23:31 Chaggi wrote:


just cause he doesn't live there doesn't mean he can't go to the IM house. who would practice at a PC Bang anyways, it's an awful environment

On April 09 2012 23:00 Hider wrote:


How do you know that. Have you asked other pros how many hours/day they practice. And if so, could you give specific exampless?

When that is said, it doesn't surprise me that pros dont practice 8hours/day (efficient hours, meaning they dont chat for 5-10 minutes between games). It just seems to be everytime I watch foreigners play (that is not stephano, HUk, naniwa) that they make so many mistakes, and of similar level that I see at high masters. I would feel that full-time pros would have fixed these leaks by now, but they continue to play at a subpar level.

On April 09 2012 23:31 Chaggi wrote:


just cause he doesn't live there doesn't mean he can't go to the IM house. who would practice at a PC Bang anyways, it's an awful environment

You need to play three times that every day for a year to get started. After that you can probably drop down to 10 hours a day if you are focused.

On April 09 2012 19:00 Slightly wrote:
Stephano recently stated that he practices 8+ hours a day, although before he used to only practice 3 or 4. I believe it was on the SotG interview. I would imagine an 8 - 10 hour practice schedule would exist for most Korean teams and would involve a lot of the different aspects that have already been stated. Watching replays, strategy discussion, etc. For foreigners, there really isn't the same sort of responsibility. Not saying the players themselves are lazy but that without a regulating body to keep them on task and focused, I believe it very likely foreign pros not only much less, but also much less efficiently.

On April 09 2012 22:35 Veclada wrote:
Pros who say they don't practice much probably practice alot more than they say

On April 09 2012 16:04 zEnVy wrote:
Hello there, I just have a pretty simple question.

How much on average, do you think a starcraft 2 pro player spends just playing games each day?

I only ask because I've adopted SC2 as my hobby, and when I'm not working my full time job or partying on the weekends I like to shut in and bang out some SC2 games. I'd like to dedicate a lot of time to this game and see where it takes me.

Just for fun, I played about 20 games today, and I would say the average game time is around 15 minutes or so (that's probably a little conservative), which means I played ~300 minutes or 5 hours.

Is this on par with what a pro player does? Or do I need to ramp it up even more?

On April 10 2012 00:03 The_Darkness wrote:
No, on the SOTG, he said that in Korea he was practicing 8+ hours a day because he had nothing else to do. He said, in that interview, that when in EU he practices 5-6 hours a day and when he was in school it was closer to three. Just last week though, in an interview with HotBid(? -- the TL guy), he said he practices closer to 3 hours a day and then if he's streaming and there are a lot of viewers he'll keep playing (typically for 5 or 6 hours), so go figure.

On April 10 2012 00:43 iYiYi wrote:
All the top pros you see winning these tournaments lately have insane work ethic. People like Alive, MarineKing, MMA, etc all play a lot (at least 12+ hours a day). Even if they say they don't they really do, there's no way to get on the level of a champion without it.

There are foreigner pros who do train hard too. I guarantee IdrA and Huk put tons of hours into the game when they are in their zone (although it seems lately HuK has been missing some days). Some other foreign pros not so much though. I keep queing with Catz/Minigun when I play DotA 2. Aren't they sponsored to play SC2?