Limit Maximum on Sport Psychology in WoW Raiding
2 hour 47 minutes Posted Sep 18, 2021 at 12:11 am.
Introduction
Weldon’s start in OG esport
Max would be a teacher outside of WoW
Max’s identity shift from Player to 21st-man Raid Leader
How RWF 21st man Raid Leading is like American Football
The 21st man in WoW versus 6th person in LoL or CS:GO
Good players are not automatically good coaches
Why sport psychology is more important in esport than traditional sport
Max meeting sport psychology trainers at 100T and Team Liquid
Esport is ahead of traditional sport in sport psychology
Gaming houses get a bad rap
Max explains the difference in skill profile between RWF, MDI, and PvP
What kind of raider could transfer well to PvP. How you click your mouse matters!
The first hurdle Limit had to jump over to stream RWF
What a RL should say to support players getting reemed by Twitch chat
Limit’s unique guild mindset
Why Limit is like the St. Olaf Choir
Max insists there has to be a culture of skill parity for his culture to succeed, and he was a vocal performance major
How the RWF is like speed running
How Echo’s culture is different than Limit’s
If Max is tilted, the pull will fail. That’s a different person in each guild.
Internal performance is probably identical in top guilds
Informal Team Role Mapping for elite esport teams and now Max is going to do this with Limit
Max 3 years ago in limit wore too many hats
How to identify informal roles as a sport psychology trainer
Max knows how much each of his guildmates is worth, especially Shakib
Shakib’s role on limit
Max is going to analyze his guild roles now
Bad team members don’t make it to limit’s level
Max thinks echo chambers are dangerous
Conflict is essential in high performance teams
RESETTING BETWEEN PULLS
Consistent breaks between pulls
This is why we have incorporated more breaks
FFXIV has different raiding culture than wow
We don’t want to be the guild that sleeps and then the boss dies
Why we stopped chain pulling
Why space between pulls matters for the brain to raise the importance of each pull
Why VoD review might work well for learning in esport
Why Max uses VoD review
For the amatuer players
When should, or how should, we take improvisational breaks?
Identify why you need a break, and tailor the break to fit it
Swedish Female Soccer and Esport Injuries
You can raid with a teammate for years and never know them
Team Building means getting to the point where you would bench yourself for being bad before hiding your mistake to protect yourself
Should we walk to the venue? Why were the morning pulls better when we walked to the venue?
Reaction speed is not as important in wow
Does sleep help motor learning?
Sleeping during a season, versus sleeping during a tournament like RWF
The best pulls of our day are the first ones before lunch
Maybe more gamers have ADHD
When to call it as a raid leader
What went wrong with our 20 hour Uldir raid
Keeping clean comms as a raid leader
Max’s worst moment in all of sponsors
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