Notes can be useful for a number of different things, but for now we focus on three areas for our notes. Those being knowledge, skills and tactics. For knowledge, we specifically think about specific actionable/ learnable things that we need to remember. This is mainly utility pieces, but can include other things as well. For skills we think about stuff that needs practice over time. This mainly include mechanics we are weak at. For the tactics department we think about specific tactics and strategies, such as trade fragging.

Using notes

Having some notes for each of our three areas (from VOD review or writing them when in comp.), we are ready to start working on them.

Note review before match

Before going into our competitive matches of the day we want to review our newly learned knowledge. We need to learn how to play around our newly acquired knowledge in the game. We need to get a feel of how it plays and over time we will learn different ways our play/ setups can be countered.

We also want to review the tactics notes, to know which aspects we need to focus on doing correctly. eg. Knowing trade fragging in theory is worth nothing if you don’t implement it, practice/ perfect it and make it second nature.

Before matches we don’t review the skills/ mechanics notes. We generally dont want to focus on this in game, unless we have a hard time translating the skills from DM/Other modes to our competitive matches.

Note review before practice session

Before practicing, we review the notes applicable to what we practice. Before a mechanics practice session we review our mechanics/skills notes etc. We use the notes to ensure our practice session is as relevant as possible. eg. We learn/practice utility that we know we need (from the notes), instead of learning utility that someone else thinks are important, but we dont know how/when to use.