Danish organisation Team Singularity has partnered with Swedish machine learning platform Pluck GG to coincide with the launch of ‘Pluck Esports Academy.’
As per a release, the academy will allow gamers to join daily classes, weekly events, and monthly tournaments that are league and division-specific. All students will be monitored, analysed, and taught by an AI-powered gaming coach.
Interested gamers can join the academy by selecting a specific game, platform (PC or console), and method (keyboard and mouse, controller, or touch). By joining the academy, players can graduate and, theoretically, be transferred to a recruiting esports organisation.
“Pluck was founded on the vision of including all gamers and giving everyone a chance of becoming a professional esport athlete by basically expanding and giving a solid structure and methodology to the box of esports.
We are super excited to partner with and launch the Pluck Esport Academy together with an amazing esport organization like Singularity and we are really looking forward to the first transfers of students from the academy to a professional esport organization this summer.
As a student, players can earn monthly grants based on overall performance. Each student is categorised with “surgical precision” in four different tiers and 12 groups based on “gaming performance and execution,” with four classes and 12 segments based on gaming quality, and four leagues and 12 divisions based on “performance, execution, and quality over time.”
Erik Lydecker, Founder and CEO of Pluck GG
Pluck GG is also introducing Pluck Polestar, a tool that will allow esports organisations the opportunity to scout and recruit top students. Lydecker revealed that Pluck is currently in contact with over 50 esports teams and will be “onboarding them successfully during Q4 2020.”
“In Team Singularity we always keep our eyes open for digital/tech solutions and platforms that can help us improve our infrastructure and help our visions come true. When I was introduced to Pluck GG I instantly saw a great potential for Singularity to revise our academy structure and utilize machine learning algorithms to help us in our talent scouting processes.
Singularity will be using Pluck Polestar as our primary scouting grounds for signing academy players and giving unknown talents a chance to get into the esports scene. I’m very much looking forward to the global launch of Pluck GG and we will be doing monthly activations online on the platform to find the talents of tomorrow.”
Atle S. Stehouwer, Founder and CEO of Team Singularity
About Team Singularity:
Team Singularity, recently acquired by Rightbridge Ventures, launched in 2016 as a grassroots operation and has grown into a premier esports organization with professional teams competing in Fortnite, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Rocket League, League of Legends, FIFA22, Apex Legends and more.
The company is focused on talent development and is the leading player talent incubator in esports. Team Singularity has the largest path2pro esports academy in the world with over 10,000 active amateur players making their way to become the next pro player in esports.
Team Singularity is home to more than 100 players and staff members from more than 30 different countries.
About GamerTech™:
GamerTech (GT) brings disruptive products, technology-based gamer wearables, and advanced apparel solutions to market, focused explicitly on gamers and esports athletes to boost performance, amplify experience, and enhance their overall wellness. GT is a startup within MAS Innovation, a subsidiary of MAS Holdings - the most prominent apparel tech manufacturer in South Asia, with over 118,000 employees across 17 countries and a turnover of USD 2 billion, strongly focusing on apparel-based innovations. MAS Innovation ranked 18th among the world's best workplaces for innovators, conducted by Fast Company in 2022, and placed in Clarivate's highly prestigious Asian innovators list in 2021 and 2022.
