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Hello!

Many of you know I stopped the majority of my coaching and streaming over the last 2 months leading up to ACL Melbourne and WCS Aus/Oceania. This really paid off with me winning ACL and WCS Australia. Even though I didn't perform so well in WCS Oceania and IEM Cologne the effect of 100% focus and discipline in my training was evident. That being said I'm not willing to leave coaching behind.

Coaching been a large part of getting to where I am today. It has helped me broaden my knowledge of the game and perfect my analytical skills as well as help many people along in their Starcraft journey. Players like cRneko who are now sponsored players have made me incredibly proud of their dedication and me being able to help them along the way has been a great experience. Of course I also can't forget that coaching has pretty much fed me over the last year while I slowly got to the level where I can consistently win tournaments.

I am now back from Germany, rested and feel I have grown. My goals for the future are clear. I have realised that I hold a privileged position in the SEA eSports community. I am backed by a few fantastic sponsors as well as numerous fans and friends that are helping me in my Starcraft career. As such I need to use this position to push eSports as far as it can go in this region. What the SEA community needs is more talent to cheer for at the international level. eSports is growing from the roots up at a very steady pace in our region but I as a player with vast ambitions can't speed that up. What I can try to do is go to international events with their fantastic production and massive fan-base and let them know that SEA players can compete. This will tap into the large fan-base in our region who only watch international events and I can use international successes to bring that attention back to SEA (as Glade has done for us many times). I know that to do this I will need to train as hard as I did before ACL and WCS except not just for 6 weeks. I will need to train this hard for an entire year. I'm committed to doing this and as such am cutting my coaching hours to about 10 hours/week. I know I'm not the fastest learner or improver at Starcraft but I feel I have it in me to get there and so I head down this road of hard practice.

I will be raising my coaching rate by $10 to $35aud/hour to meet supply and demand. I get a heavy flow of requests for coaching regularly and hopefully the new rate will make my hours more manageable. On the down side I am sad that many players won't be able to afford my coaching anymore. I know there are a lot of people who get coaching from me who are on very tight budgets whilst often supporting families or studying fulltime. I always wanted my coaching to be accessible not something just the wealthy could afford. I will be sad that I won't be able to coach some of you anymore and I will try to make up for this by asking everyone I do coach if it's ok to stream their sessions so that everyone can at least watch on and learn. As always I will try to answer questions in stream chat and chat with everyone on the stream.

I have no illusions about being as famous as Sheth or Idra to charge $100-$300/hour and I don't want to make my coaching about the money. I'm aware this is a significant increase and will try to ensure even more professionalism and efficiency in my coaching. I recently wrote up some new documents for ZvT, ZvP and ZvZ and look forward to sharing these!


TL: DR I got a bit lost trying to word all my thoughts in this blog. What I'm trying to say is that I want to compete in more international events and I need to be focused 100% on that goal to do so and as such am adjusting my price to meet supply and demand.

New Coaching rates

$35/hour

Package Deal
Buy 4 hours and get 1 hour free!

I felt removing my "extra lesson time" and replacing it with a seperate hour-long session will be the most effective use of the time. I previously just added 15 minutes on each session to make up that hour. If this is requested we can still do it this way!

Thanks for reading and have a good day!