Why is it that in esports there are literally no female players? Starcraft I & II, Dota I & II, League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, Smite, Counterstrike, CS:GO, and Overwatch all have one thing in common: their pro scenes are literally entirely all-male.
I remember how blown away I was when I was watching Starcraft II and the player "Scarlett" sat down. It looked almost like an ugly female in the dim light of the stadium. As a female who has played competitive esports all her life, I had started to believe that women biologically didn't have the brains for it: I never made it to 2800 rating in WoW, Challenger in LoL, or Global Elite in CS:GO. Imagine how inspiring it was to see some ugly-ass white girl playing Starcraft II and mopping the floor with a chinko-asian dude. For an hour I believed that my gender wasn't holding me back, and I just needed to play more and get better.
Then they started talking about how brave he is for transitioning, my heart sank to the floor. It's like for a moment I felt like I wasn't unfairly disabled, and then in the next, it was like the rug was pulled out from under me; all just a big fucking joke. ):
Why are there no legitimate women in esports? And if trannies are so brave, why aren't they brave enough to kill themselves?
Same as why there are few females at the top of any profession that includes males. Females get impregnated before they have a chance to make it to the top, which is not a negative thing.
Josiah Allen
>Females get impregnated before they have a chance to make it to the top lol yea that's the reason...
Zachary Parker
i'd fuck scarlett
Benjamin Hughes
Professional esports players usually debut at around 16-years-old, and they usually peak in the twilight years before they turn 20. If CLG's Doublelift can make $2 million in sponsorship money in ONE season as a 17-year-old twink Asian boy, then why hasn't a 17-year-old girl ever even made it onto a professional esports team?
Honestly, the idea of female esports players is something people are conditioned to find meme-worthy and hilarious. Video related:
For those that don't know, Scarlett (StarCraft 2 player) is trans.
Juan Long
Top tier waifu material
Jose Watson
Okay then they just aren't as capable which is similar to many other professions. It's true true though that plenty of women (fewer than men percentage wise every time) can make it to the top-tier of many professions, but why would they bother?
Christian Thomas
Because females aren't as competitive as males, don't have the testosterone or the drive to win that makes naturally have.
Females also tend to gather a following of beta orbiters, who instill the chosen female with a sense that she can do no wrong, and rise to her defence at the slightest criticism of her gameplay.
Because of that, the female can't improve even if she wants to.
T. Global cs player. Not that that meme rank means anything on 64 tick servers with valve matchmaking... faceit or ESEA is where it's at.
Ian Foster
>makes
Males*
Julian Flores
Because head on competition is inherently masculine. War is masculine. Combat and fighting are masculine.
Women don't like to compete directly, they like to compete indirectly. They actually can't stand having to compete head on against someone on the same playing field.
Whenever I've seen a girl who plays League, any time she loses her lane she assumes it's because the other guy is specifically trying to be an asshole to HER, not because the other guy is better and wants to win. That kind of mindset does not turn you into a great player of any sport or game.
tldr women can't stand something that doesn't care about them personally.
Dylan Scott
Why no female super GMs?
David Torres
systemic misogyny
Grayson Parker
Did you really just assume their genders? Disgusting.
Brandon Wilson
Because in a 4-year-long esports career you can easily make over $20 million as well as landing a job in the industry once you get out?
Imaqtpie still makes over $300,000/year despite the fact that he doesn't play in events anymore, just because he's a streamer and also gets income from being a scrim partner. Hotshotsgg and Scarra make six-figure salaries as coaches. None of these jobs require college, just fast reflexes and the ability to think and outsmart people on the fly.
I went through all of my high school years thinking I could make it. ):
Jace Smith
women have physically slower reaction time on the order of 100-200ms. it's as if they are always playing with lag. under ideal conditions, they are simply slower
women are slower at making snap strategic decisions etc, but i think a lot of this is due to social psychology and not physical brain structure.
Angel Allen
Reaction time studies show that women, on average, have effectively a 30 MS delay over men.
30 ping decides games.
Julian Gonzalez
In chess, there's a similar situation, where top human players are men, and women are in general weaker (with a few exceptions like Judit Polgar). I guess, the only thing we can do is to admit that female and male brains work differently and have men and women compete separately, as has been done for ages in sports.
Evan Torres
You should look up male and female IQ distributions. Not that IQ is the only measure for succes in e-sports, but it paints an interesting picture. Men are more likely to excell or to fail. Most top CEO's are men, most homeless people are also men. Women tend to be average at everything.
Jordan Scott
hate to break it to you but you probably just suck at video games, like all women do
Robert Peterson
I feel like I have the drive to win. I've made it to diamond 3 in LoL, 2400 in WoW and made it to Legendary Eagle in CS:GO. It's always like that last threshold I can never break. Believe me I spent several hours a day for an entire summer just watching my own replays, trying to get friends to tell me if there's anything I'm missing or how I can improve, but seemed like no matter how dedicated I was, I just plateaued.
Then when I was a senior this freshman boy approached me after he saw photos of one my cosplays, and was like "Oh you play league? :)" followed by this 15-year-old giving me his summoner name. I added him with the mindset of "he's a nice enough kid, I'll hop on a smurf and boost him a bit for funsies. do I need a gold or silver smurf?"
>Check his rank >Challenger, rank 20 in NA
WHAT THE FUCK?!
Sebastian Thompson
>women are slower at making snap strategic decisions etc, but i think a lot of this is due to social psychology and not physical brain structure. I'm pretty sure it's a culture thing, I've met older women who are amazing at making a decision on the spot based on limited info.
I think some of it is the new idea that you can't tell anyone they did anything bad or wrong because muh self-esteem. I've noticed most women this generation can't handle pressure because every since they learned they can tell the teachers "im really stressed right now" they've never actually had to take more shit than they expected. Guys, who already play competitive games more often, learned how to handle pressure and rapid descision making. Guys also tend to take a situation that throws a lot of pressure on them in stride and see it as a challenge instead of pussying out.
I actually think it's the same reason men dominate STEM fields, I'm 2 years into STEM and every single class there's multiple girls who drop out or stop showing up partway through because they just couldn't handle the pressure.
Blake Ward
>4-year-long esports career you can easily make over $20 million >over 20$ million HAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAAHHAAH
*inhales sharply*
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
Jeremiah Harris
This simply cannot be the case. Doublelift during his prime was the most mechanically-gifted player in the entire region by far. His reaction times were impeccable and nearly superhuman, yet he still frequently lost lane because he would get outsmarted. Smart players are just as lethal as fast players.
Carter Mitchell
But there are pro female players
Parker Rodriguez
Yes, but if you want to make it to challenger you need to be both smart and fast. You can only compensate so much.
Owen Fisher
maybe because women are too sensitive and can't cope with being all the time told by the opponent that he fucked her mother
Christopher Gomez
People exist on a bell curve. The truthfulness of his statement and the existence of outliers are not mutually exclusive.
Christian Nguyen
why are you obssesed with race and sex
demcrat thoughts: race sex race sex race sex race sex, diversity?, race sex
i mean seriously
Asher Turner
desu a lot of people are like you.
i bet you just stop caring after a certain point. i know i do.
Christian Lee
Look up the Sirens LoL team. Also in Aus they starts a female only cs:go league with more funding than any male leagues here. My mate jokingly said his team considered being trannies for the wins.
Adam Thomas
Outliers exist.
I'm high 6k in dota. My reaction time is terrible but I have good game sense and predictions. I'm at my absolute cap because the people past my level have both my game sense and better reaction time. There's only so much one aspect of gameplay can take you.
Carter Collins
>This simply cannot be the case
sample size is in the tens of thousands. testing reaction time is not exactly difficult. the other guy who said 30ms is wrong, it's over 100ms, i have a degree in exercise science i tested entire classes of people on this personally
Colton Taylor
1. They would rather compete in real life and have fun with games.
2. The stigma of being an autismal girl with no friends devoting herself to a traditionally male endeavor is not attractive to them
And you couldn't hope to do what Scarlett did, which was prop up the completely shit North America scene by being one of 2 who were actually competent at the game (the other guy being a Tunisian cocky French guy). I bet you aren't even 5/10 in aesthetics yourself.
Daniel Ramirez
>> First of all, LoL is a shit game made so the lowest common denominator can be good at video games too, and WoW has never been balanced for PvP, so Ranking means nothing.
Secondly, don't beat yourself about not breaching LE. The matchmaking has gotten worse in recent years and you can attribute 50% of your losses to Russian cunts that can't play for shit.
Also, the weapon spray is complete bullshit on 64 tick servers, complete RNG fest. There's a reason the tournaments are 128 tick.
Thirdly, Cs is 90% positioning and communication with your team, and 10% individual skill.
Owen Russell
league isn't a competitive game
Jacob Williams
I have given up at this point. I'm 22, well past the prime of any esports player. I know that I'll never get challenger or global elite or whatever other title I chased after as a teenager.
Sirens never even made it to the challenger series. Their average rank is like mid-gold, with one player in low plat and one in high silver. Sirens are a complete joke.
The one on the right is the player, the girl on the left is his gf...
If you watched my replays maybe you'd agree, but maybe 1% of my deaths were due to mechanical slowness, glitchiness, or just straight-up fails. 99% were due to not being able to read my opponent, getting baited into a trap, or just not anticipating correctly how they would react to something.
>why are you obsessed with race and sex
because male niggers need to be put back into the fields and their females need free abortions
Christopher Jones
Video games are just one of a huge list of things that women can't do as well as men. I'm not saying women can't do some things better than men because they can. Things like having babies, doing the dishes and the laundry and of course sucking cock.
Austin Cox
People are going to tell you a whole bunch of bullshit which is probably true in this thread but as a former pro esport nigga I'm going to tell you the two main, core factors that cannot be overcome and keep women out of the top.
The first is reaction time. Women's nervous/musculatory systems just do not have the same capacity for twitch muscle reflex and intuitive thoughtless action that men do. The second is APM(actions per minute). Females cannot generate the 340+ APM that you need to consistently pump out to keep pace with a finely tuned male esport player. Some of these guys can maintain 400+ APM with no sweat. It's not a matter of how competitive you are. Your body simply isn't designed to keep pace with it.
Josiah Butler
>Diamond 3 >Last threshold before going pro How about you learn to play the game first?
Lincoln Clark
They are from the Fnatic female team, or used to be.
Wyatt Perez
>I'm 22, well past the prime of any esports player cough
Aiden Perez
>I have given up at this point. I'm 22, well past the prime of any esports player. I know that I'll never get challenger or global elite or whatever other title I chased after as a teenager. For the love of god, woman, stop playing video games, ESPECIALLY COMPETETIVELY (protip: this is for losers)
Please seek help! This just hurts to even read.
Jaxon Collins
Women have worse motor control, reflexes and stimulus recognition. Sorry lass, stick to the sims
Angel Young
Has anyone ever considered maybe women have more self-respect not to lower themselves to NEET territory?
As a man i'd be embarrassed to say I made my riches playing a child's game. You might as well be copping to being the world's greatest hungry hungry hippos player.
Grayson Cruz
>implying I wouldn't respect the greatest hungry hippo in the world. dream big or go home loser.
Jose Wood
I'm sure Fear is crying into the 3-4 million dollars he is estimated to have mad from winnings and sponsorships combined
Leo Stewart
>30 ping decides games. Too be fair, this isn't the case in Dota2
Brayden Hernandez
Asian men are practically women anyway.
Jacob Adams
being slower at reacting isn't the same as having a higher ping, it's worse
Easton Wood
You are pants on head retarded if you think e-sports is a viable career strategy.
Sure, maybe the top 1% of the pros make a few mil in a few years (but no transferable skills whatsoever), but meanwhile the other 99% plays even or loses money.
Grow the fuck up kid. Watch some Jordan Peterson or something.
Nicholas Carter
>because male niggers need to be put back into the fields and their females need free abortions On Sup Forums, this counts as virtue signalling. You women really can't help yourselves can you?
Andrew Brooks
There are some female pros in Hearhstone on par with their male counterparts. Mostly because RNG is a huge factor and the game is based on taking discrete tempo turns. It requires no hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness or good reflexes unlike, say, Dota 2.
What happens when a female wins a game at a Valve event to a team of casters and personalities that have no intention of winning and participate just for fun only to concede despite dominating their game?
Games are not meant to be played competitively by females, all data points to their general inferiority when competing between the top of each gender.
Come to think, they kinda suck at Hearthstone too. Try SIMS.
Ian Watson
To be fair, Dota is a shit game.
Christopher Gutierrez
Because they socialise and don't indulge themselves in things that has no importance to their social status. The better question is why are gamers all lonely virgin beta losers and why is the majority of them white?
Landon Scott
Idunno, git gud scrub.
There is literally nothing holding a woman back from being a video game champion. It's not like there's some secret sexist sensing cheat code that senses and makes the game harder for women. The only thing holding a female back from being good at video games the female herself. Every player is literally playing the same game, there's nothing different about each player's game.
It's not men's fault that most women gamers are pic related.
Jace Mitchell
t.Jelly CSfag
Levi James
>Majority of white people are Korean What the fuck are you talking about?
Adam Morgan
The pro scenes are all male because you need talent and an insane amount of practice to become pro. Maybe 1 in a thousand will get near that level.
Much less girls play competitive esports games than men, therefore there's less females in high level esports.
Scarlett is fucking impressive though, can't deny that s/he held the foreign scene up almost singlehandedly while Stefano spends all his time getting pissed.
Blake Sanchez
No, women do the same thing. The beautiful ones (which are the equivalent to the high skilled players in "worth") whore themselves out on facebook/instagram/twitch for cash or to get a rich man. Different strategies.
Matthew Thompson
Ok, maybe it's just not for me, but you've got to admit that no games have as toxic communities as MOBAs do.
It's like RTS for people that are too bad to play real RTS.
Isaac Sanchez
don't mind me just crushing westerners
Xavier Allen
as much as I am disappointed you had to talk about the fact that you are a girl I will answer your question because it is the morning and it's not for you if you gather the world's top 100 people in esports, all 100 will be male this is because of the distribution of the various mental, biological traits inherent in both men and women the range for men in this particular area is much higher than that for women, so just like with the olympics, get 100 of the world's best at say, weightlifting, they'll all be men if you get the world's top 10,000, then you might start seeing a few women filter in, maybe. regardless of different interests, it is a biological limitation more likely to be inherent in a woman than a man. women have their own advantages, but this isn't one of them.
Carter Torres
how is this Sup Forums?
Ryder Nelson
>Pinoy >Not following Dota
Jackson Miller
Except jimmy naps.
Christian Carter
csgo players are like 30.age isnt as much of a factor as you think.people stop playing as they get older because they lose the drive for the games and want something more stable out of their life since e-sports is so volitile.look at soccer for example average age of retirement is like 32 women are shit at games because they lack hyperfocus(competitiveness)when a guy wants to get good at say for example league given that he has the natural aptitude for it (women have this as well) he will then live breathe and sleep the game.he will be thinking of the game every waking moment of his life,forgo sleeping eating and hygine just so he can play more.he will practice his mechanics,read guides and patch notes and other information and keep queuing up after every game.meanwhile you mentioned that you were hardstuck in d3 and cosplayed in high school.could have used the time you spent making your costume and going to events on the actual game instead and gotten a bit better
Ryan Brown
I wonder why. I wonder why the world's #1 chess players have never been female. It's almost as if differences exist on average between genders.
Please tell me you're joking.
Jackson Cooper
In Starcraft that makes sense, but why in something like League of Legends where 400APM is nowhere near required, can women not compete?
I don't really know what "intuitive thoughtless action" means, but if it has to do with instinctively outplaying people without any prior thought put into it then I guess I can't really do that. Every game I've approached as a thinker first, and sometimes when shit hits the fan I often very quickly lose track of what's going on and that results in me getting killed.
How many events have they won? :v
touche.
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What's wrong with having hobbies?
stfu I could probably still beat you :( :(
Numbers please. As someone who religiously watched streams and followed esports for half a decade, those numbers are completely inconsistent with everything the players and organizations themselves have said about their earnings.
Hearthstone is not an esport holy shit. It's a stupid RNG -fest that is horrendously unfun to watch. It's not just boring and stupid because it's a card game- I used to go to Yugioh and CFV tournaments as a kid- it's easily the shittiest competitive card game in the world. It makes Pokemon TCG look like a skillful endeavor.
Matthew Ramirez
aaand her ranking is what exactly? :)
the only female to ever breach top 100 in chess, a 100% mental game, and you describe it with "females are generally weaker (in chess)"?
+140IQ humans are 14 times more likely to be male. Females lack both the incentive and the capability to matxh our intellectual levels. Not only are their brains smaller, the neurological connections are around 40% less in pure numbers than the average male.
No women has ever invented anything on her own that has advanced civilization in any meaningful, or drastic way. Go on, try to name one without jewgling. Even the most hooknosed female supremacist fails that task.
Noah Howard
I mentioned Sirens as an all women team example of what not to do. Implode after 4 days of announcing you're going to try and be pro.
My old coach had a saying "if you put 10,000 hours of practice into something you'll be good at it" so basically repetition till you are good.
John Ramirez
>tfw got an IQ 220 online I'm the next da vinci
Henry Wright
there was a girl in the LCS not to long ago I think
Cameron Harris
HEY LOOK AT ME EVERYBODY, I'M A GRILL >Sincerely, OP the rules, or fuck off, whore
Dylan Wood
because we're talking about the gender gap and how the patriarchy is conspiring to keep women out of esports by rigging tournaments, lagging their computers at important moments, and allowing male players to peek at their screens
Camden Parker
I played yugioh too as a kid and leading up to tournaments i would spend 2 months reading forums,practicing combos,thinking of situations where my cards would be suboptimal,revising my decklist and sideboard.I remember before our nationals I spent 10 hours infront of a mirror with my deck practicing bluffing with my face and mannerisms like a sociopath
no woman will have that dedication to win and if she does she crosses over from being a feminine being to a masculine being
Jacob Morris
females don't even compete in different groups in sports or chess. Men are not allowed to join the female leagues. Women are fully allowed to join all teams ranging from chess to soccer, they simply are unable to compete.
Hell, even the most famous, most successful fashiondesigners are all men.
Jayden Reed
>mfw bronze 2 >mfw 300 ping >mfw 80% Jax winrate feels good not giving a fuck
Isaiah Bell
>I've approached as a thinker first, and sometimes when shit hits the fan I often very quickly lose track of what's going on and that results in me getting killed.
>approaching LoL as a thinker
LMAO, that game is literally designed for autistic kids that can't think further than two moves ahead. There's a reason that all the youngest Esport pros are eager players.
Dota I can at least respect to some degree, but league is a complete joke.
Stop wasting your time on it, you're better than that.
Ian Fisher
The same reason Danica Patrick doesn't win races. You can put the girl in the car, but you can't make her cross the line first. When objective victory conditions exist women will fall short of them in many instances.
James Rodriguez
Sorry mate when you finally grow up and have a taste of pussy your whole life changes in perspective. Dota now for me is nothing but a past time. I dont play it as much as i did and am not devoted to it to the point that girls will be disgusted by me.
Cameron Wilson
Why no STEMcraft yet?
Jackson Cooper
>eager
League, fuck this phone.
Camden Sullivan
>pro gaming >not gay
Daniel Collins
because women aren't dumb enough to piss their lives away playing with toys like children they are out their taking the jobs being left vacant by the man children sitting at home in front of the electronic jew
Owen Miller
i heart this pic
Luke Gonzalez
>hobbies There is nothing wrong with having hobbies, but you explicitly stated your goal is to make it your job.
You do not want to spend the best years of your life behind a computer playing shitty "competetive" games. In particular not as a woman.
In about 8 years you will be 30 which is a point you really want to have your life sorted out if you ever want to have kids.
In any case, take this to Sup Forums or something
Asher Richardson
Lower spatial skills and longer reaction times relative to men.
Same reason female racing drivers are basically non-existent outside of a small handful.
Benjamin Baker
there are plenty of girls who are good at stuff like speedrunning and arcade scoring, not meme shit like esports. you just have to know where to look for them
Jaxon Turner
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James Rodriguez
>Not White >Sex Why are you even browsing Sup Forums if you haven't made the commitment to never reproduce.
Ian Sullivan
Counterstrike has a lot of cute girls (female) to obsess over:
if you want to really think about it OP its because every being on this earth is hardwired to seek to propagate his genetics and produce the best quality offspring.men can achieve the highest quality of female genetics by excelling in something,getting recognition from their community and by shining enough in a field that they dim the other males which leaves them with a good choice of women.
women on the otherhand are not valued by men for their accomplishments but for their beauty and femininity and motherly instincts.this is why women are so into makeup and fashion because it is the best way for them to increase their value and attract a high quality mate
look at doublelift for example or dyrus,both have wide fame and excelled in their area and both are dating women whos only quality is their beauty. to go back to your original topic maybe women can be the best at esports if said woman is really ugly where and she really wants kids and she knows that her looks wont help her land a man
Christopher Butler
but you're still dumb enough to be an anarchist
Xavier Allen
>Women out having threesomes/foursomes with hot men >Ugly men stay indoors and play computer games / nintendo all day
Why am I not surprised?
Aaron Evans
>cute girls (female) (male) (female)
Joseph Kelly
>trannies = males better at being women than women
how does it feel to know that all female sports will be dominated by trannies?
Liam Scott
> Doublelift during his prime was the most mechanically-gifted player in the entire region by far.
Ok now I know you're just trolling. Go back to you fucking piece of shit. Doublelift is and has always been an overconfident shitter with no titles to speak of other than that pity lcs championship he won when Bjergsen carried his sorry ass.