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Tips to improve in competitive PUBG
Tencent Games recently used the PMCO Global Finals in Berlin to announce their plans to let Tencent Africa deliver PUBG Mobile servers to Southern Africa and we're excited!
While there is still no release on when the servers will be launched, they’re likely to be dropped before the end of 2019.
With the announcement the conversation around PUBG as a competitive esport in the region received traction. It seemed like as good a time as any to chat to Christopher “The Dexo” van Ysendyk. 19 year old The Dexo formed part of the team that played in PUBG Europe League Contenders. Unfortunately the pressures of international competition combined with local responsibilities took their toll with the team eventually choosing to disband.
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Regardless, Dexo continues to play an active role in the local scene and weighed in on the PUBG Mobile server announcement as well as gave some insight and suggestions to aspiring PUBG competitors.
Tencent Africa has announced local PUBG Mobile servers for the region - will it mean PC players hopping over to a new platform in the hope of competing?
“I don’t think PC players will move to mobile just because of servers. In my opinion, the experience you get from playing PUBG on PC is unmatched by any device or game. Personally, I wouldn’t throw away my 3000 hours on PC PUBG for another device or console. However, PUBG mobile has been surprisingly popular among gamers and I think the addition of local servers could be the building blocks for a local esports scene and a South African PUBG Mobile community.”
For many of the casual players currently jamming PUBG - mobile, PC or console - what would your advice be if they want to move into the competitive scene?
“If you’re moving into the competitive scene the first thing I’d recommend is finding other competitive players, forming a team and entering a league as soon as possible. PUBG Mobile will likely see new leagues forming but if you’re on PC, the best place to enter a new team would be the Mettlestate open division and the Glorious Gunpowder leagues and tournaments.”
For those wanting to find out more about local PUBG Mobile tournaments, the PUBG Mobile South Africa Facebook group is a good place to start and has more than 4000 members to assist you. You can find the group on Facebook, here.
Forming a team and joining leagues are one thing, but how do players improve their skills when competing?
“I would recommend playing solo squads as much as possible and hot dropping. This means you queue by yourself against teams of 4 and drop with lots of players. I’d also recommend only playing Faceit and scrims with your team. If you want to get good at competitive PUBG you should stop playing public games all together, except for a quick aim warmup or solo squads. A casual game of PUBG is worlds apart from what competitive games are like. It is almost like a different game. Playing casual games will force you into bad habits very quickly.”
Dexo’s final tip for wannabe PUBG esports competitors? Learn to lead!
“If you want to be a valuable player to any team either learn or take note of how to in game lead, because competitive PUBG is a massive game of complicated chess with strategic rotations and moves that need to be planned a couple steps ahead, while you’re in the midst of chaos and gunflights. In game leading is by far the hardest role and can make a massive difference to a team’s performance. Competitive PUBG requires far more than good aim.”
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