Jacob Hale
World Champion Coach
A coach. A teacher. A person.
Jacob Hale, known professionally as Daeda, is a world champion coach with over a decade of experience in competitive gaming and esports. Specializing in strategic development, mental performance, and team dynamics, Daeda has led multiple teams to international success.
With a background in machine learning, game theory, and competitive robotics, Daeda brings a unique analytical approach to coaching, focusing on both individual skill development and team cohesion. His drive for development of the player as an individual, for the benefit of the team as a whole, aims to build sustainable and performant team ecosystems.
The work is the proof. Competence expressed through preparation, not performance.
Built from inside the team, not above it. Proximity to the subject changes the analysis.
The gap between fourth and first is not a leap. It is a hundred small corrections, stacked.
Coaching intuition is a starting point, never the conclusion.
Data is an invaluable resource, but floats in the void without context.
The balance of the qualitative and quantitative should define the direction.
Rebuilding systems from the ground up, with growth focused development.
Building domestic Indonesian talent in VCL Indonesia and SEA and rebuilding communications systems for long-term player impact.
Development of fundamentals and communication for console players transferring to PC.
VCL Playoffs performance development. Off-season regional scouting and player role development.
Rebuilt communication philosophy in a second-language team. Individual player development and macro strategy.
Designed and managed foundations of TSM Valorant's long-term structure. Led the project into Riot's Challengers League.
Replicated deep analytics pipeline from R6 to Valorant. Individual player coaching and long-term team planning.
Co-coached TSM R6 to multiple international and national titles. Designed match strategy for competitive play.
Team analytics and event scouting for US Nationals.
Built an analytics foundation and breakaway project for deep analytics.
If you don't know who you are as a person, you can't know what you will become as a player.
Daeda