Profile Post

Tak Chun Chan
French 274
Published in
2 min readMar 29, 2017

Weldon Green, the creator of Mindgames, an ex-athlete, now as a professional sport and eSport coach, and also an entrepreneur on sport psychology trainer.

Weldon is a well-known person in the scene with his experience as an ex-athlete and he is now working as an eSports psychologist to help players improve. He helped many teams out, and Team SoloMid, the most famous LoL team in North America, improved a lot with his help.

Weldon is a specialist on both sports and eSports side and he can help the players out. Most of the eSports players are teenagers, sometimes they might question their ability so it will affect their attitude towards the game, thus confidence. With Weldon’s assistance, they can maintain a healthy mental state to compete in the highest level.

Weldom always Their try to explain some situations in eSports in terms of psychology, like how to make games enjoyable, how to not get stressed out thus affect your own play, most of the blogs are about how to maintain a positive and healthy psychological state and what people should do to achieve it.

In Mindgames.gg’s blog, since it is an organization, they have different authors on topic, with Weldon wrote most of them. Some blogs are about having the correct mindset to build up confidence and some are about how to improve as a player.

Mindgames’s blog doesn’t update very often, some posts’ links are disabled, but people can still watch the latest updates by Weldon on YouTube or podcast since they are switching to other media.

The tone of the blog is very formal, since most of the topics are very serious and they need to explain some concept. Also they are very positive on eSports psychology and think its important for players and they want to spread the message.

Weldon have been blogging for at least past two years. The design of the website is very simple, simple color use and it put Weldon’s image on the right as an advertisement and different tabs on the website can show details of what Mindgames as an organization is, their layout is comfortable for people to read.

Weldon started Mindgames as a collaboration group for eSports psychologist, they provide consultation service to eSports team and help the players to improve. Their goal is to promote the importance of eSports psychology to the general public.

The website do not have blogrolls, it is due to the topics being similar, they are all about psychology in eSports field so they barely needs blogrolls to catergorize their articles.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mindgames.gg

Most viewers are from United States, some of them are from Denmark (Maybe due to the team that Weldon worked with before have two Denmark Players)

Before anyone comment they need to register an account so basically not much people are making comments, but Weldon is famous on other online forums like reddit and sometimes he replies other user’s question in a very polite way, or he answer questions for audience on YouTube or podcast.

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Tak Chun Chan
French 274

Currently a Junior Economics Major in University of Southern California, passionate gamer and big fan of eSports.