EPTWhere are the female casters? - Page 6
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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nimbim
Germany983 Posts
Having Seltzer as a hostess is already incredible, she must have one of the thickest skins in all of ESPORTS. I doubt another woman will want to be a caster in this community. | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
The other thing is that there is the club of casters that is incredible hard to become part of. Don't know when people talked about this anymore (derailed pretty quickly and was a mostly nonsense anyway). But there was some truth in it, as in most main events just use the super popular casters. Think it got better though and we saw a few more casters rise to fame lately. So we might even see a female caster emerge that builds up a dynamic with some male casters. Because people love dual casters in sync the most. | ||
lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
On July 29 2013 00:14 nimbim wrote: I think any woman who follows ESPORTS will have noticed how kellyMILKIES was attacked in this community, back when she casted GSL. Yes, she wasn't a GSL level caster, but the shitstorm she received was insane, much worse than Moletrap, who wasn't liked by any more people than her, but he didn't pose for the playboy (or some similar magazine). Having Seltzer as a hostess is already incredible, she must have one of the thickest skins in all of ESPORTS. I doubt another woman will want to be a caster in this community. She didn't pose for some nudie mag. She posed for a Maxim gamer girl feature (iirc). It wasn't racy at all. | ||
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Iodem
United States1173 Posts
And OGN and GOM both have 1 female caster for proleague/gstl, and as stated before, there have been female casters for english gom casts. | ||
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MrBadExample
Sweden23 Posts
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catplanetcatplanet
3829 Posts
there have to be decent ones that just don't get exposure | ||
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Pimpmuckl
Germany528 Posts
On July 28 2013 19:40 lichter wrote: Soe is awesome Yep. I would watch her cast whatever the hell she does with that awesome accent. | ||
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lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
On July 29 2013 00:30 Pimpmuckl wrote: Yep. I would watch her cast whatever the hell she does with that awesome accent. I like her game related art segments the most. I really hope she starts contributing to NASL (or WCS AM or EU) again soon | ||
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grs
Germany2339 Posts
On July 28 2013 20:35 Cirqueenflex wrote: if I am not misinformed, in about half an hour a "DeutschCast" will start (german cast, where you are not allowed to say anything in english, and if you do, there will be punishment. It is a fun event rarely done by Mori09 of the mystarcraft.de community and actually really hard, as not only the german language is influenced heavily by english, also for the game a ton of english vocabulary is used, from unit names over stuff like "cheese" and "snowballing" up to "expand", "natural", "game" and many more. This time the cast is only organized by Mori09, the ones doing the cast will be two austrians (yeah, the same country and accent as Monchi), one caster is "cRY" and the other one "Becci" from "Beccis Playground". She is a girl, and about to cast some SC2 action (and she is not the first woman to cast/cohost a cast alongside Mori). It is not like there would be no girl at all casting, but those who do cast do so for fun and only when they feel like, not for a year every evening out of their basement hoping to eventually get picked up by a big event. Watching this atm: She is not a fantastic example of a knowledgeble female caster really. But I guess this is just for a laugh anyways. | ||
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kochanfe
Micronesia1338 Posts
 EDIT: Actually, Soe is pretty good, but not in the same league as the top top casters imo. | ||
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DDie
Brazil2369 Posts
Also, sheever is a regular caster in dota. | ||
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Witten
United States2094 Posts
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xuanzue
Colombia1747 Posts
On July 28 2013 18:46 Quincel wrote: but figures also show that there aren't that many more male gamers than women overall** (**see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Female_gamers_as_a_demographic) in starcraft and the RTS genre, the female participation, it's hardly major than a 5% in the BTS genre with games like WITE, WITP, TOAW, or dominions, I have no seen any woman playing those games yet. | ||
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DDie
Brazil2369 Posts
On July 29 2013 01:08 Witten wrote: I can't remember her name but joindotA had a female caster (Diamond?) who was pretty bad, but the fans treated her in an absolutely disgusting manager. I haven't heard from her since. To be honest, dota fans act like that to anyone who suck the slightly. Triumph also gets insane amounts of hate, Lumi, ayesse, even tobiwan. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On July 29 2013 00:14 nimbim wrote: I think any woman who follows ESPORTS will have noticed how kellyMILKIES was attacked in this community, back when she casted GSL. Yes, she wasn't a GSL level caster, but the shitstorm she received was insane, much worse than Moletrap, who wasn't liked by any more people than her, but he didn't pose for the playboy (or some similar magazine). Having Seltzer as a hostess is already incredible, she must have one of the thickest skins in all of ESPORTS. I doubt another woman will want to be a caster in this community. Maxim isn't Playboy and that's a pretty bad example. She should have never been hired in the first place and the fault rests on GOM not so much her. It's not much of a deterrent compared to everything else they would have to deal with and I see many women doing just fine. From Soe, Anna, Rachelle, Susie, Sjokz, Smix, Sheever, etc. The list goes on. No matter what you will have to deal with some bullshit along the way whether you stream, post, etc. It comes with the territory. Likewise, regardless of your gender you will be targeted no matter what. We hear casters say a lot of dumb things and they're called out on it regularly. They just don't have to deal with the sexiest and other immature comments. You learn very early on to block that crap out because it is irrelevant. | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19230 Posts
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adius
United States249 Posts
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Ragnarork
France9034 Posts
On July 29 2013 01:33 adius wrote: Men choose unhealthy, antisocial hobby, act surprised when women steer clear of them You sir, are getting it completely wrong. Generalizing things to men/women is just BS, because that tends to prevent people from doing things they enjoy (women doing "men" things, men doing "women" things). Not even noting "unealthy", "antisocial" as qualifiers for esports, which is incredibly wrong (haha, Nada's body !) | ||
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ZombieGrub
United States697 Posts
And I wouldn't try bringing up 'but they could be play-by-play if they have a good voice!' because we all know if the girl isn't masters, people are going to call her an attention whore, no matter how good her play-by-play is. Since you honestly asked how you could find more, however, the ones that are worth it are usually going to be found like finding a good male up-and-comer, because they won't tweet 'GIRL CASTIN XOXO'. So pretty much a) by chance and b) you are actively searching for a new caster to like. But already some people have mentioned good ones here, so. Personally, I'd suggest Zepph, who might've been who you heard on basetrade. | ||
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