The influence of players’ nationality on the effectiveness of eSports teams based on the example of The International DOTA 2 tournaments

Abstract

The presented text addresses the issue of the influence of national diversity of eSports teams on their effectiveness in winning DOTA 2 games. The analyses were based on data concerning the entire population of teams participating in The International series tournaments. The results of the analyses confirm the hypothesis that teams with a strong national diversity, more often than teams with a high national homogeneity, achieve a high effectiveness coefficient and occupy a high place in the final classification of the analyzed tournaments.

Toward Successful Esports Team: How Does National Diversity Affect Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Video Games

“…Seo & Jung, 2016;Yong Jin, 2021). These resulted in the professionalization of MOBA and the possibilities of forming multinational teams composed of players from around the world (see Kołodziej, 2019) Dota 2 requires at least basic knowledge of English (see e.g. Hapsari et al, 2018) and this is the language usually used in heterogeneous teams (some exceptions here are Asian squads; see e.g.…”