EPTOn July 13 2011 16:56 slytown wrote:
CheekyDuck, I totally support, and I think all of the SC2/TL community as well, you making a CheekyDuck tournament. In fact, its pretty clear everyone would encourage you to have more tournaments, but using a pink/rainbow/falsetto intro for a girl specific tournament diminishes the skill/serious play of a good players like KellyMilkies or flo. If you were to say make it the CheekyDuck Tournament and have the exact same intro, that would be fine, because those images are attached to your identity.
The issue many of us here have is not you having a tournament, but distinguishing between players based on gender. E-Sports involves sitting at a desk and typing and I doubt muscular development among males is going to seriously give them an advantage over females; KellyMilkies is a thousand times better than I am (a boy), so a girl's tournament is not necessarily for lower level players either.
Yes, Starcraft II is a war game and war is considered a masculine activity (although many historians have indicated war is often feminine) but that doesn't mean each male SC2 player subscribes to being a brute. If you're worried about getting harassed, don't be. It's the internet and it doesn't matter. Plus, you have the other 99% of SC2 players to support you. As Kahuna/LadyRevenge alluded to, there is a difference between a thread for women/korean/gay players to say they play Starcraft and a tournament restricted to said types of players.
We're just saying be yourself and be a part of the community. Join us! (*insert communism joke*)
I hope the next tournament is a CheekyDuck Tournament and not a Girl's Tournament.
CheekyDuck, I totally support, and I think all of the SC2/TL community as well, you making a CheekyDuck tournament. In fact, its pretty clear everyone would encourage you to have more tournaments, but using a pink/rainbow/falsetto intro for a girl specific tournament diminishes the skill/serious play of a good players like KellyMilkies or flo. If you were to say make it the CheekyDuck Tournament and have the exact same intro, that would be fine, because those images are attached to your identity.
The issue many of us here have is not you having a tournament, but distinguishing between players based on gender. E-Sports involves sitting at a desk and typing and I doubt muscular development among males is going to seriously give them an advantage over females; KellyMilkies is a thousand times better than I am (a boy), so a girl's tournament is not necessarily for lower level players either.
Yes, Starcraft II is a war game and war is considered a masculine activity (although many historians have indicated war is often feminine) but that doesn't mean each male SC2 player subscribes to being a brute. If you're worried about getting harassed, don't be. It's the internet and it doesn't matter. Plus, you have the other 99% of SC2 players to support you. As Kahuna/LadyRevenge alluded to, there is a difference between a thread for women/korean/gay players to say they play Starcraft and a tournament restricted to said types of players.
We're just saying be yourself and be a part of the community. Join us! (*insert communism joke*)
I hope the next tournament is a CheekyDuck Tournament and not a Girl's Tournament.
this is the first girl torny i have hosted, i mainly do fun tornys that have handicaps (for casting practice)
also pink use to be a boys color...
on a side note: i got really into nyan nyan... and also i wanted it too be different... i think the cup was cute. nothing says girl like giant pink bow.
as for the players, they were really, really good. a gm won, and it was a big turn around with lots of master girls playing. so that was crazy...
i think a lot of the girls had fun =) even tho there was major trouble with the times etc. hopefully next one will go smoother
