The Mindgames Podcast by Weldon Green

Limit Maximum on Sport Psychology in WoW Raiding

Subscribe to Max's channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/LimitMaximum 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

18 sep 2021 - 2 h 47 min