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The Brawlhalla Handbook.
Read the ideas. Understand the decision. Put it into practice.
I’m Dejan Carlisle-Miller / Coach Cosmic. I built this handbook from years of coaching Brawlhalla and asking the same question: how do we help a player turn what they know into decisions they can use in a match? Routes, opponent understanding, practice, and discipline all have a place in that answer.
Read a public sample below. The complete PDF opens in a window on this site with your free account. LinkedIn is an optional alternative publication.
MAKE THE KNOWLEDGE YOURS
Read. Practice. Build your next move.
Work through weapon foundations, test one decision and keep the practice that changes your game.
One Handbook. Two ways to use it.
Read for understanding. Practice with a purpose.
Read the Handbook at your own pace, or work through its ideas with the Handbook Experience. The guided breakdowns bring my coaching approach to the page: what to notice, why the decision matters, what the opponent can do, and when to reset.
Public samples are open to everyone. Your free site account opens the complete book and guided experience, including private notes and progress. The experience is self-guided; live coaching is booked separately.
Inside the handbook
The Five Pillars.
These are the Five Pillars behind the handbook. Each one gives the player something to understand, practice, and bring back into the match.
Optimal Flowchart & Route Creation
Know what your route is trying to accomplish, when it applies, and when to change the plan.
Frame Data Collection & Positional Mapping
Understand what a move does and where you need to be for that information to matter.
Psychological Understanding
Watch what the opponent actually does. Build a read, test it, and adjust when they change.
Execution Routines
Practice until the action can show up when another player is trying to stop it.
Proper Discipline
Build habits that keep you learning through the good sessions and the difficult ones.
Who it is for
Players. Coaches. Esports programs.
I want players using this, coaches challenging it, and esports programs building from it. Take the ideas into practice and see what holds up.
This is part of the larger COS:CORE work I’m building. Read it. Use it. Critique it. Teach from it. If it helps you develop a better player, it did its job.
Who is Coach Cosmic?
Coach Cosmic is the professional name of Dejan Carlisle-Miller, an esports coach, educator, curriculum developer, and creator of COS:CORE.
Where can I read the handbook?
Open the full 153 page source in the on site PDF window with a free account. The Handbook Experience adds weapon studies and private practice notes. The published edition is also attached to the handbook release post on LinkedIn.
Does it promise a particular rank?
The work is about development. You still have to practice, compete, review, and make adjustments. A rank comes from what you can consistently do against other players.
Keep learning
Explore the Steam guide library.
The earlier guides are still part of the journey. Start with the fundamentals, dig into the concepts, or work on your doubles game.
Browse all six guides ↗Keep exploring
Carry the idea forward.
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The Brawlhalla Handbook Experience.
Connect concepts with demonstrations, visual examples, and a personal practice record.
Enter the experience →How to read the Handbook.
| Resource | Access |
|---|---|
| This public sample and six original Steam guides | Open to everyone. No site account required. |
| Full 153 page Handbook PDF | Read here in the PDF window with a free site account. No LinkedIn account required. |
| Weapon studies and private route lab | Your free site account opens the Handbook Experience. Notes and saved work stay private. |
| LinkedIn published edition | An alternative original publication. LinkedIn may require its own sign in. |
From the supplied Handbook · Public sample
Execution is a decision you can repeat.
Execution is the bridge between a correct decision and a repeatable outcome. Execution training should progressively remove uncertainty. The first stage isolates the input so the player can perform it without match noise. The second stage adds confirmation so the player acts only when the starter actually produces the expected state. The third stage introduces variable position, damage, dodge, height, or platform state. The fourth stage adds resistance. The final stage tests whether the behavior survives live pressure. Each stage exists because a route that works only in training mode is knowledge, not yet competitive skill.
Handbook · page 20
Read the idea, practice one condition, build the decision in BrawlFlow, then compare what happened in Community.
Keep the work close
More from COS:CORE.
COS:CORE on eSpotz
Explore Competitive Foundations and its access details here. Enrollment and course delivery remain with eSpotz and Coursebox.
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Member learning workspacePut the Handbook into practice.
Choose a study, inspect the demonstration and test the decision. Open the reference panel to read alongside the lesson without losing your place.
19 study paths253 contextual studies240 foundation chapters153 page handbook · 3 diagrams
Your learning space
Make the next session deliberate.
Sign in to your supporter account to open the full learning workspace. Save practice notes, mark what you’ve worked on, and return to your own progress.
A supporter account is optional and free. Public guides and the media library remain open.
From reference to match policy
Make every branch explainable.
Choose a Brawlhalla weapon, practice its foundation chapters, then study the demonstrations and test your decisions.
The system behind every weapon · Five principles
State gates, move roles & common errors
Before you continue
Errors to catch
Study the original route / reference page
Source → interpretation → decision
Observe
What changes?
Reproduce
Test the condition.
The marked spaces.
Take this study through the six-stage drill ladder
The complete 153-page source
Read with a decision in mind.
Search by Brawlhalla weapon or topic, inspect the route diagrams, and keep the practice worksheets beside your study.
PDF viewer · search, filter & zoom
Download handbook PDFLearn together · Put the work on record
Learning community
Frame data reference
Frame data, close to the decision.
Choose a weapon, compare its moves, then take the setup into your route lab.
Opening source tables…
Your private route lab · Handbook pages 150 to 151
One weapon. Three routes. Explicit reasons.
Track one Brawlhalla setup at a time: starter, damage, spacing, dodge response and follow-up. Compare your Training Mode reps with what happened in matches.
Record an opportunity you actually observed.
Review hits, missed attempts and deliberate resets alongside the stage position you kept.
What the evidence supports
See the practice taking shape.
Explore shared challenge milestones and player-selected showcases.
Open the Handbook leaderboard