How to Participate in Tekken 7 Esports Events

Fighting games are so special! This genre offers unique competitive fun, and if it resonates with your gaming nature, you’ll find yourself stuck with it for many exciting years. And this experience will be a constant growth and development: from a beginner to… wherever your dedication would lead you.

There are some layers of enjoying fighting games. Most people start from messing with different characters in the story or arcade modes, then slowly move towards hot multiplayer fights, and then start thinking about proving their skills on the professional competitive level.

The transitions between a casual player to hardcore and then to a professional one have some tricky aspects. One day you just mash buttons and hope your AI opponent is programmed to make mistakes, and the next day you face experienced players and punish their whiffs with devastating combos. Not only should you play a lot to do so, but also you need to practice specific tricks, learn the abilities of game characters in various guides, and absorb the high play level from top tournaments. However tricky this path might seem, it still has a clear direction. And the only power you need in the process is that fun you have in the matches, which naturally motivates you to move forward.

The ambition to start a professional career and participate in fighting esports tournaments warms the hearts of many players. Still, actually moving to this goal is not that easy. The necessary steps are not obvious, and the uncertainty might scare away.

And you know what - no one can describe to you a clear way to pro esports success. There is no ultimate recipe, but there are some very helpful pieces of advice that might give significant support and encouragement. This article lists them, so let’s get to the business.

I’m talking about fighting esports in general, but my personal expertise is tightly connected to Tekken 7 tournaments. That’s why I’ll better explain the following thoughts in the environment of the Tekken competition.  But that doesn’t limit the advice - my thoughts on this topic are pretty applicable for most other titles.

Be Yourself

This might seem a weird thing to advise for achieving good results at fighting games. Still, it’s one of the most powerful tools you have in your personal arsenal – your uniqueness. The ability to carve your own pass is greatly beneficial far beyond gaming and esports.

It was much easier for current legends of competitive fighting games to take their first steps. They were pioneers and had practically no one to copy. Now, it’s quite tempting to study the career of Arslan Ash and try to do the same stuff in your life. Or watch matches of JDCR and then change your character to Dragunov…

Iconic personalities let their uniqueness bloom and thus reach the level of success. Your unique style in matches and everything that surrounds them is a key factor, so allow your inner genius to shine bright.

Join Any Tourney Available

Here we have something strictly practical – yep, if you want to participate in tournaments, just do that!

Ok, that’s not so straightforward as it might sound. First of all, the world of fighting esports has some top-level tournaments, and it’s not so easy to reach them. Even if we don’t talk about such invitationals as WePlay Ultimate Fighting League but try to concentrate on open events (Tekken Online Challenge, for example), you usually see only well-known players in the Top 16/8 parts.

Some beginners are reluctant to join a tournament because they are too shy and not confident in their abilities. Some other players want to win a world championship from the very start and ignore everything that doesn’t offer an impressive prize pool. A solution for both (and for literally everyone) is to participate in all available Tekken 7 tournaments. Start with small low-level competitions – it’s a super valuable experience and a chance to prove your skills. Then progress, and let the sky be your limit!

Build Your Lab

Playing for fun and competing in multiplayer matches (and even tournaments) – that’s only one side of the process. The other one is to boost your game in your personal game laboratory.

Tekken 7 (like most fighting games) has its practice mode. Make it your regular destination! It might be less exciting to play here, practicing combos and various tricky moves. But such activity is absolutely essential for an esports professional.

What exactly to practice here? Remember that thing about being yourself? You’ll find the answers on your own and understand what you want to improve. A different approach is what you need to improve. We’ll talk about that two pieces of advice later.

Also, I would add here the hardware advice, because it’s part of your lab, you know. The practicing space and equipment should be as comfortable as possible. You don’t necessarily need the most expensive monitor and ultra-advanced controller, but preventing lags and physical inconvenience – that’s kind of a must-take step. Otherwise, the practice (and online competition) will not reach its full potential.

Start Earning

It’s the definition of being a professional – earn money from doing your thing. In a perfect situation, a famous brand will offer you sponsorship and cover all the expenses for you to play Tekken and improve your skills. Hopefully, you will reach this level! But what to do till this comes true?

Many fighting games players explore the area of content creation. They turn their lab into a Twitch streamer studio and invite viewers to watch their practice sessions. They make video guides and just fun YouTube videos to boost their income from ads. Such actions will allow you to concentrate on the game, invest more time in skills improvement, and start working on your personal brand.

Create a Public Figure

Here we have a good transition between pieces of advice. That personal brand from the previous sentence is (almost) of the same importance as everything else, including your playing skills. Esports tournaments have a very significant dimension of business. Brands invest money to popularize their products. They need someone interesting for the audience to attract viewers and increase the stats numbers of the tournament.

That doesn’t mean you need to get involved in scandals or something like that. (You still can! Remember that thing about being yourself?) As a public figure, you might share your opinion on the game, updates, characters, matches, post some personal stuff, and… Ok, it’s the topic for a whole new article, but you probably got the point.

It’s not good to underestimate the importance of being an influencer for an esports professional. And also, it’s not good to be focused on the Public Figure aspect too much. Your quality as a player is much more important! Always!

Look for Direct Learning Sessions

The fighting games community is one of the best in whole competitive gaming. Most people here are very supportive. They are ready to share their experience and help out in many aspects.

One type of support could make a huge difference in your career, and you should look for it. It’s when someone (an authoritative person) watches you playing and gives you advice on various improvements.

When you practice alone, you might miss some small things in the flow of your fighting habits. And no YouTube guide could tell you – do this instead of that, or try not to do this at all…

There are quite a few really good Tekken players who offer coaching sessions. You need to pay for this, sure, but that is a worthy expense. If you have a chance to friendly communicate with other fighting games players, it might be even better. They would give you lots of invaluable tips. (And yeah, you could use those tips to figure out what you need to practice in your lab)

Set High Goals, but Be Reasonable in Everything

Esports principles are very similar to those of traditional sports. I mean – you should aim to win, believe in yourself, and put in the process the maximum (but reasonable) effort.

Set some high goals for your fighting esports growth (become the best of the best, for instance). Go to this goal but never let it ruin other aspects of your life, like meeting people, developing other skills, and even investing time and energy in non-gaming types of career.

Being a fanatic of one idea is not a good thing in life, even if that is the idea of participating in top-level Tekken 7 tournaments. Finding your thing is more important. And if fighting esports is really your thing, it would be hard to miss it with the advice from this article.

One more thing to say very quickly – take it easy. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Don’t bring stress into your gaming/esports experience. Enjoy the path, and it will take you to the next destination possible.