Episode 11!! Absolutely loved sitting down and talking with Chrome on some of the fundamental areas he addresses as a coach, but also adopted as a previous player. We chat indepth about coaching styles with a TON of key takeaways for players of all skill levels. We also have a talk about the upcoming Spring Major and RLCS World Championship.
Topics included in the episode;
1:30 - how did you get into Rocket League?
4:30 - When you were a player did you ever envision being a coach/staying in the scene?
5:45 - Did you play traditional sports growing up?
6:30 - Did you acquire coaching skills from your traditional sports?
8:00 - Talk about Team Culture/mentality
11:20 - NA scrim insight
13:30 - Talk about how much more downtime other eSports have + Is RL the most demanding eSport + what makes RL different from other eSports?
17:15 - Experience with Daniel at the start + coaching other young/inexperienced players
21:50 - Daniels feeling/experience going to London after the Winter Major + his first crowd experience
24:30 - Queso (Moist) surpassing expectations as a young inexperienced team
25:45 - Relaxed mentality vs "dialed in"
26:15 - Funny Comms story at Fall Major + How to manage Comms as a coach during LANs
29:20 - Does SSG reflect on previous wins/loses and pull things to help win in future series?
30:45 - Coaches mentality/mindset when trying to motivate/hype/set expectations for the team
33:00 - Practice vs Gameday
34:35 - Timeouts (Importance, opinion of them, how/when to use them)
39:45 - Looking at other teams and trying to replicate what makes them successful + Forcing other teams to play the way you want to play
44:00 - Quick talk about how RL is one of the only eSports where being hot mechanically actually matters/makes a big difference (for better or worse)
45:00 - Pre-game preparedness (tactically and mentality) + regaining from losing the first game of a series
47:30 - Mentality of going for reverse sweeps
50:50 - Reverse sweeping with Daniel vs with Sypical
51:40 - Impact of Bootcamping
52:45 - Mental Coaches impact on SSG
55:20 - Future of Mental Coaches in RLCS
59:00 - Chrom
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