Less Pizza, More Yoga: E-Sports Embraces Traditional Training Methods

In November, Aguirre, a 24-year-old professional video game player from Spain, joined the five-man roster of Origen, a League of Legends team that competes in the game’s top European league. Some years ago, traditional sports leagues were revolutionized by young analysts wielding computers. Now echoes of that transformation have arrived in the growing world of professional e-sports, where gamers are being shepherded toward a new frontier, oddly, by the old, corporeal wisdom of traditional sports.

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