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Inside Sydney’s ASUS ROG gaming house

With the growth of Esports getting bigger as the years go by, Australian teams are trying to play catch up to other regions like North America, Europe and Asia. Throughout those areas, professional Esports teams are living together in gaming houses, practicing and playing their competitive game to become the best in their field.

To support the Australian scene and assist in bring it up to scratch, ASUS has opened its very first gaming house in the world, right here in Sydney, and has teamed up with Legacy Esports — one of the top League of Legends organisations in the country — to do so.

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Located in the suburbs of western Sydney, all five players of Legacy currently call the ASUS ROG gaming house their home. We were taken for a quick tour through each of the rooms by the mid-lane player Aaron ‘ChuChuZ’ Bland, a player who has been with the organisation since its formation. As you enter the two-story home, you walk past its broadcast and streaming room. This is where the team is able to upload live video from the couch to popular services like Twitch.tv, or get together and watch replays of their games to discuss what went well or what went wrong.

As you move towards the back of the house, there is a large kitchen which is loaded up with food in the fridge. ChuChuZ tells us that Legacy doesn’t generally get meals delivered; instead, they take turns cooking each day for the entire team. Over in the dining area is where a group of ASUS desktop computers are lined up alongside the wall for the players to compete, practice and scrim with as a team.

We are taken upstairs to where all the bedrooms are located – with each door hangs a plaque on the front with the players name and position. Inside of their rooms the players each have their own ASUS laptop to use during the spare time, and because the house is connected to the NBN the players don’t have to worry too much about bandwidth issues while they are each doing their own thing. ChuChuZ explains how during every weekday the team will meet around midday to start practicing and scrimming – which can last up until 11pm at night.

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The members of Legacy have weekends to themselves so they can go about doing their own personal activities. In ChuChuZ’s case that time is spent studying; he’s in his second year at University, working towards a Bachelor in Communication. That said, the team still gets together and has some games together on their ‘days off’.

When asked about how Legacy has found their experience so far moving into the ASUS ROG gaming house, ChuChuZ talked about the improvements they have already seen playing together in this short amount of time. He also commented on how it’s changed Legacy’s Esports lifestyle and how the team has started diving into new areas like hiring a sports psychologist. One simple example given was how after each round, Legacy now steps away from their computers to spend a few minutes outside together.

It’s still early days for this new direction Legacy Esports is taking, but the AUS ROG gaming house is a step forward towards putting Australia on the map in the world of competitive gaming.

To learn more about Legacy Esports, head here.


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Luke Lawrie

Writing and producing content about video games for over a decade. Host of Australia's longest running video game podcast The GAP found at TheGAPodcast.com. Find me on Twitter at @lukelawrie