EPTWhat does bother me is that people often view looks as a higher priority in a female gamer rather than skill. It must be tough to be a female in e-sports. Glad to see that guys do not have to live up to this double standard.
Video Interview with a Chantal Aust - Page 5
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
What does bother me is that people often view looks as a higher priority in a female gamer rather than skill. It must be tough to be a female in e-sports. Glad to see that guys do not have to live up to this double standard. | ||
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Tercotta
Canada402 Posts
On October 15 2010 08:19 Kazang wrote: First thing I thought was "not this dumbass from the IEM Cologne" but it's actually a good interview, you are clearly a lot better when speaking in german than english. Interesting interview and it's good to get more girls involved in general but I can't see how good she is going to be when spreading herself over so many different activities, since starcraft is a game that really does hinge on the amount of practice you do. He's pretty awesome actually. He shoutcasted a tournament with Demuslim from his house and they were so drunk at the end. They were trying to pratice english casting. It was sooo funny. And this topic has brought forth some terrible posts. I was going to highlight one of the TL streamers that is a girl but there is no way I would wish this objectification on anyone. | ||
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Kishkumen
United States650 Posts
And she really does seem like one of those incredibly successful people, where just by their willpower they can accomplish what they set their mind to. It'd be pretty cool to see more female gamers at the top level, especially since the athletic differences in men and women shouldn't matter in an esports setting. I think it's mostly just a male-dominated area for cultural reasons right now, and it'd be cool to see that begin to change. | ||
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dolpiff
France300 Posts
on topic: i wish her good luck with her team and hope other teams setup as well to make female tourney interesting ! also props dennis for taking the time to do all these interviews and even sub it for non-germans | ||
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
On October 15 2010 07:58 Pandonetho wrote: I was going to mention that in my post too but decided not to. Yeah, it's true females probably spend more time on their social lives too than progamer guys or whatever. So, if you're not going to practice to be the best among humans, than you have no chance in hell of joining a unisex league if you're a girl. Because all we would see are guys. Do you think she could do it consistently? I can kill the world's best Modern Warfare player too if I played him enough times to land a lucky random grenade kill. But the end result would probably look something like 1-100. She beat him 2-0 in a Bo3 | ||
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Tone_
United Kingdom554 Posts
Hundreds of bans and warnings ensue xD Cool interview though, cheers! | ||
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FrontalMonkey
United States90 Posts
Also, this thread is ridiculous banbait. If there's anywhere I expect to see red after my post, it's here. x_x | ||
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Onioncookie
Germany624 Posts
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KiLL_ORdeR
United States1518 Posts
On October 15 2010 08:55 Tone_ wrote: Lol, post with something about a girl. Hundreds of bans and warnings ensue xD Cool interview though, cheers! Ya, this is why it was a terrible idea for Blizzard to display real id in forums, imagine the shitstorm these girls would get if their identities were revealed . On topic though, is there anything this girl doesn't do? BMX, Fencing, Gaming, Modeling. She sounds like the next Ms. Germany. | ||
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SoL[9]
Portugal1370 Posts
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piroko139
United States261 Posts
You can laugh at me all you want, I am fully aware that she is juggling like 80 things in order to maintain a somewhat normal teenage life (albeit very active), but the focus on her in the interview is the fact that she's a gamer. And she's female. Unfortunately, she isn't that good? Despite playing in several tournaments? I don't mind the interview itself, rather I'm questioning why her specifically compared to the other female gamers that might be better at it than she is. | ||
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Vz0
Canada378 Posts
(ie :bronze->silver/gold) On October 15 2010 08:40 Skee wrote: Mods are keeping people from ruining the forum.... Great interview though! Was very fun to watch. ^^. + Show Spoiler + I'm off to hide from the ban hammer... thier only being strict because they want to keep this forum as serious about eSports as possible ( I mean if the korean esport officials or any esport officials, perhaps even blizzard, were to look for a forum of educated suggestions/ideas it would be TL (next to bnet's own forums but oh the irony) Its understandable that they ban for 1 word posts. Imagine we had a balance thread and everyone just goes , cool story bro inb4 idra rage etc etc , there would be nothing productive. TL would loose its recognition. It is hard to make a definite line of where to ban and where not to as mods are people and make mistakes but imo its best if you just follow the 10 commandment to the best of your ability. | ||
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KaiserReinhard
United States554 Posts
I kind of wonder how good at SC she is, because being a champion BMX biker/model/SC pro gamer seems like a bit of a stretch, surely you can't be good at all 3. | ||
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Vei
United States2845 Posts
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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Licmyobelisk
Philippines3682 Posts
Also if she want's to have a lot of money she should do her best in the Germany's next top model, surely us nerds will be rooting for her (also one reason for me to watch that show with my GF) | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
you seem like a really good interviewer though, keep it up | ||
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FuRong
New Zealand3089 Posts
I don't really know the history, but why were the original BW female leagues abolished in Korea? It always seemed like a good idea to me, but they only ran for like two seasons and then got stopped. Perhaps some older TL member can enlighten me. There are some female WC3 tournaments in China too (Google Colagirl) but this doesn't seem to have spread any further. It seems paradoxical that we always complain that there aren't enough girls involved in gaming, but at the same time nobody is willing to support tournaments for them... | ||
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anTi_
United States499 Posts
On October 15 2010 09:02 Vei wrote: i want to see how good she is at bmx, bmx is just sweet to watch in general Here is a video of her BMXing, she has other videos as well on her page. Good interview and it's always nice to see a cute girl taking up our nerdy obsession. | ||
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