Esports giants Team Liquid are building a brand new, 9,000 square feet headquarters, in Los Angeles, that they hope will be ready by October or November and will optimise every aspect of their player's practise to achieve even more success in as many major esport tournaments as possible.

The building features separate rooms for scrims [online practise games between two teams] for the Counter Strike: Global Offensive team and both the main and academy League of Legends teams as well as rooms with giant TV screens for each team to review and analyse their matches.

It also has conference room for business meetings, war rooms if anyone wants privacy, in-house offices for their video production team 1Up Studios and a kitchen with a personal chef and a daily menu that will be personally customised to cater to each player's taste.

Team Liquid's esports HQ will have multiple practise rooms and a kitchen with a personal chef

It's a world away from where esports started, the industry is now worth billions and has attracted the interest of sports team owners from around the wold. Team Liquid have benefited by investment from aXiomatic, a group that recently received financial backing from Disney and is co-chaired by three renowned professional sports team owners, Peter Guber, Ted Leonsis and Jeff Vinik.

Vinik is the chairman and owner of NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning and a minority owner of Fenway Sports Group who parent Liverpool FC and Boston Red Sox.

Guber is the co-owns the NBA champions Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Football Club. And Leonsis is majority owner of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which own the Washington Capitals [NHL], Washington Wizards [NBA] and Washington Mystics [WNBA].

Liquid CEO Steve Arhancet says aXiomatic were crucial in the development of the new facilities: 'They provided a lot of great advice when it comes to the importance of a facility and gave us the confidence to go through with these plans.Now we’re at a point where we can make these types of substantial investments for the betterment of the players and their development.'

Substantial is an understatement as Liquid are investing around $1.5million [£1.1m] into these changes. They have spent over half a million on just the building and have spent the rest on housing and extras luxuries for the players and staff.

Team Liquid's players will have a home near the HQ away from where they pratise everyday

Previously, teams had tended to live altogether under one roof alongside their support staff, usually having to share rooms. Players spent every hour of the day together which could lead to conflicts between teammates as well as burnout from the game.

Arhancet concedes there will always be conflicts but hopes the new facilities will lead to a better mentality across their teams: 'I think conflicts and sports go hand-in-hand.

'I think a certain level of conflict is healthy. However, I do feel like the separation of housing and personal vs the office and work allows the mind to regenerate daily and be ready and switched on when it comes to the time to be focussed.

'I think it’s unrealistic to assume that human beings can train in the type of intensity that has been accustom in esports so far which is being in a gaming house, living and working there for six or seven days a week for eight to twelve hours a day for up to eight months a year. Burnout is real and this is a step in the right direction so that the time that we do spend in the office is optimised and more efficient.'

Over six months of planning has gone into this new facility, Arhancet insists that Team Liquid have ensured their players will have every possible advantage, no matter how small: 'The sole responsibilities of a team is to develop athletes. To make them better than they were when they were training on their own, that’s a responsibility we have as owners.

'So then we take away the responsibilities that distract them from their training and development and we also provide them the tools and resources in order for them to succeed.'

Liquid now have several housing units and an apartment complex near their headquarters for all of their players. Coaches and some support staff can also live in the same area but if not some will be given a subsidy to find their own homes. Players will be given a furniture budget to make their homes 'customisable and comfortable' and will have cleaners visit their homes.

Everything Liquid are providing for their players is impressive and it doesn't stop there. Arhancet believes a healthy body leads to a healthy mind, which is why every Liquid player is given a free gym membership. This is also why Arhancet hired the personal chef, to help the teams' nutrition: 'If you consume high amounts of sugar, you’re going to have peaks and valleys in your energy levels.

'If you eat a massive meal of 3,000 calories, you’re going to be fatigued shortly after as your body is digesting. Even with meals we can really optimise the amount of training time that players can adhere to in a schedule.'

And on top of a personal chef, each team has an elaborate collaboration of support staff to help players reach the very extent of their potential. Liquid have found recent success in having a positional coach for each of their five primary League of Legends players and work together with Mobalytics and Overwolf to collect and analyse as much data as possible to help teams figure out what is currently the strongest strategy.

In addition, the teams have been aided by mental coach Jared Tendler who has coached over 450 poker players as well as professional golfers. Arhancet must be delighted to have Tendler on board as he knows how crucial it is for players to maintain a good mentality: 'Leading to game day there’s a lot of stress, especially in team games.

'There’s synergy, communication and there’s also a lot of burnout, fatigue, depression and anxiety from playing on-stage and a lot of these things can curtail the potential peak performance of particular esports athletes. The mind is a muscle and you have to train it.'

Tendler will be one of over 40 people working together in the headquarters and Arhancet is particularly excited by the teams from separate games working together: 'We've had a lot of success this year with our Counter Strike team and our DOTA 2 team just won The International.

'I’m excited to see the shared learning between teams about strategy and mental coaching, mind-set and overall approach. There are some aspects of esports that cross pollinate.

Staff includes video producers 1Up Studios, analysts plus head, mental and positional coaches

'We worked really closely with Zews, our CS:GO coach, who gave us some really cool, very specific technologies, layout and designs he needed in order to have prime working conditions for both the players, himself and the analysts.

'I don’t want to share too much of that, because I think it’s a bit of a competitive edge we have. We did the same thing for the other facilities, this as close as possible as to what we could ever need.'

The plans for the new headquarters in Los Angeles look phenomenal and on top of that, Team Liquid have another 6,000 square feet space where their DOTA 2 team, who are based in Europe, can practise. And on top of that, any Liquid team can go to the Netherlands facility to practise against European opposition before any major tournaments in Europe.

The plans are certainly impressive but a lot has been invested into this, now it will be down to the Team Liquid players to repay the owners' faith with amazing performances and results in the major tournaments when it counts.