Limit Maximum on Sport Psychology in WoW Raiding

The Mindgames Podcast by Weldon Green

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

01:45 Weldon’s start in OG esport

04:30 Max would be a teacher outside of WoW

05:15 Max’s identity shift from Player to 21st-man Raid Leader

07:15 How RWF 21st man Raid Leading is like American Football

07:40 The 21st man in WoW versus 6th person in LoL or CS:GO

09:33 Good players are not automatically good coaches

12:10 Why sport psychology is more important in esport than traditional sport

14:50 Max meeting sport psychology trainers at 100T and Team Liquid

15:20 Esport is ahead of traditional sport in sport psychology

17:00 Gaming houses get a bad rap

18:15 Max explains the difference in skill profile between RWF, MDI, and PvP

23:10 What kind of raider could transfer well to PvP. How you click your mouse matters!

26:25 The first hurdle Limit had to jump over to stream RWF

27:55 What a RL should say to support players getting reemed by Twitch chat

28:35 Limit’s unique guild mindset

29:50 Why Limit is like the St. Olaf Choir

31:35 Max insists there has to be a culture of skill parity for his culture to succeed, and he was a vocal performance major

32:35 How the RWF is like speed running

33:45 How Echo’s culture is different than Limit’s

35:35 If Max is tilted, the pull will fail. That’s a different person in each guild.

36:45 Internal performance is probably identical in top guilds

38:05 Informal Team Role Mapping for elite esport teams and now Max is going to do this with Limit

43:30 Max 3 years ago in limit wore too many hats

46:10 How to identify informal roles as a sport psychology trainer

47:20 Max knows how much each of his guildmates is worth, especially Shakib

47:25 Shakib’s role on limit

48:00 Max is going to analyze his guild roles now

49:00 Bad team members don’t make it to limit’s level

51:00 Max thinks echo chambers are dangerous

52:45 Conflict is essential in high performance teams

55:30 RESETTING BETWEEN PULLS

59:45 Consistent breaks between pulls

1:03:05 This is why we have incorporated more breaks

1:03:05 FFXIV has different raiding culture than wow

1:05:00 We don’t want to be the guild that sleeps and then the boss dies

1:05:10 Why we stopped chain pulling

1:06:05 Why space between pulls matters for the brain to raise the importance of each pull

1:09:10 Why VoD review might work well for learning in esport

1:10:45 Why Max uses VoD review

1:11:45 For the amatuer players

1:13:05 When should, or how should, we take improvisational breaks?

1:16:10 Identify why you need a break, and tailor the break to fit it

1:17:25 Swedish Female Soccer and Esport Injuries

1:21:00 You can raid with a teammate for years and never know them

1:22:05 Team Building means getting to the point where you would bench yourself for being bad before hiding your mistake to protect yourself

1:24:00 Should we walk to the venue? Why were the morning pulls better when we walked to the venue?

1:29:00 Reaction speed is not as important in wow

1:30:45 Does sleep help motor learning?

1:33:45 Sleeping during a season, versus sleeping during a tournament like RWF

1:37:55 The best pulls of our day are the first ones before lunch

1:38:55 Maybe more gamers have ADHD

1:40:30 When to call it as a raid leader

1:40:45 What went wrong with our 20 hour Uldir raid

1:43:15 Keeping clean comms as a raid leader

1:50:45 Max’s worst moment in all of sponsors

1:52:18 START OF QA

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