Examining the game-specific practice behaviors of professional and semi-professional esports players: A 52-week longitudinal study

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Highlights：

• Public data repositories can be used to objectively and longitudinally monitor practice behaviors of esports players.

• Practice behaviors of professional and semi-professional esports players can involve >30 h/week of practice.

• Professional players accumulate more hours of practice per week than semi-professional players.

• A high volume of expert esports practice is performed in competitive, game-specific activities.

摘要

•Public data repositories can be used to objectively and longitudinally monitor practice behaviors of esports players.•Practice behaviors of professional and semi-professional esports players can involve >30 h/week of practice.•Professional players accumulate more hours of practice per week than semi-professional players.•A high volume of expert esports practice is performed in competitive, game-specific activities.

论文关键词：Sedentary behavior,Video games,Gaming,Electronic sports,Expert performance,Skilled performance

论文评审过程：Received 2 November 2021, Revised 16 June 2022, Accepted 27 July 2022, Available online 1 August 2022, Version of Record 6 August 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107421