Tag: esports
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The Weirdness of the Ellie Controversy
If you’ve been on the internet in the past week, you may have heard talk about “Ellie.” Ellie started out being the first female player on Second Wind, an Overwatch Contenders team. Contenders is essentially the Minor League of Overwatch esports, and to add a woman to Second Wind was a pretty big deal. The…
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Even Your Mom Can Be the New Smash Ultimate Champ
When you strip away all the bullshit, Melee is an incredibly difficult game to approach at the competitive level. Videos like this are impressive until you realize that was from 2011 and similar exchanges are SSBM’s bread and butter at the current level of competition, giving most people who have a desire to take a…
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Overwatch League May Get First Female Competitor Soon
The Overwatch League is currently male dominated, with not a single woman on any of the 12 teams’ rosters. That all might change soon, as Korean streamer Kim “Geguri” Se-yeon has reportedly said during a Twitch stream that she’s accepted an offer from a foreign team. Living in Korea, the “foreign” part likely means it’s…
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Counter-Strike Trolling Leads To Transgender Inclusion
Over the past few days, you might have come across a news story regarding a group of transgender women who were barred from participating in ESL’s all-women Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. In compliance with the official rules of the tournament, the women were asked to show official documentation stating their gender, such as a passport. This issue…
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The eSports Glass Ceiling
In the realm of competitive gaming, every woman is the odd one out. Indeed, a female face is a rare sight beyond the audience’s silhouette. While presenters and analysts are getting steadily more diverse, the eSports scene remains at a loss on how to get women on the real playing field, or, in some spaces,…