[News] New Slayers Member - Page 45

On July 15 2011 08:42 mangoloid wrote:
Since SC2 teams are almost all-male, Slayers is probably the only team in which this sort of progress can be made (thanks to Slayers Jessica). Any other team would probably be inhospitable for girl gamers. I think this is a definite plus.

As for the reasons for bringing her on to the team -- time will tell us what those are. Hopefully they are respectable reasons (and not just publicity/private relationship reasons). People in this thread are naturally trying to come to conclusions based on how good she is, but no one's seen her play yet so we should back off that point. I would bet that she is not good enough to do well in GSL, but probably good enough to be useful in practice. It is also worth mentioning that Slayers does not (and should not) use her the way they use their star male players. She could travel around crushing everybody at female-only tournaments, play other smaller tournaments, be the spokeswoman for female gamers, &c. GSL is not the be-all end-all of progaming. Overall, I think she will be a very useful component to the Slayers team. (But once again, only time will tell.)

Cheers to Slayers.

On July 15 2011 11:22 Fionn wrote:
I still don't think you can compare her to Tossgirl. If Tossgirl left BW and went into SC2, every team should be trying to sign her. Tossgirl is a very accomplished player and can crush most of the Korean amateurs and can hang with most of the B-teamers. She sucks compared to the A-teamers, but so does everyone else in the world.

Tossgirl could probably do really well in SC2 if she transitioned. Eve seems more of a fan of MMA-turned-into-progamer project that Boxer/Jessica are taking on. I doubt she is any good right now, but seeing as Jessica recruited her, I'm sure that if she has the passion for the game, that she'll improve ten fold in six months.

On July 15 2011 11:32 happyness wrote:


Is tossgirl still playing BW then? Seems to me she could make a big splash and probably a lot of money if she switched to SC2

On July 15 2011 11:32 happyness wrote:


Is tossgirl still playing BW then? Seems to me she could make a big splash and probably a lot of money if she switched to SC2

On July 15 2011 11:32 happyness wrote:


Is tossgirl still playing BW then? Seems to me she could make a big splash and probably a lot of money if she switched to SC2

On July 15 2011 07:35 Starp wrote:
...what if there was something lost in translation. For example, looks could be a person's 'appearance' towards the game. It could be that Eve showed a lot of motivation, composure, maturity, etc during a test interview and Jessica was impressed by what she saw in Eve and her play on the computer. Hence, she looks good (to be a progamer) and is skillful.

...it would be cool to see female progamers in sc2 and I think it would be good for esports.

...yup, she is cute.

On July 15 2011 11:23 garlicface wrote:

Fantastic post.

Time will tell the story behind her being on the team. We just need to be patient and trust that SlayerS knows what they're doing. I'm positive they do.

On July 15 2011 06:26 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:


Apparently!



There are definitely quite a few masters level girls based off girl interviews I've read on this website, gm I am not sure though.

I don't understand this whole "potential" concept though, or recruiting people based off of potential. Either you've done well and have evidence to prove it, or simply put you haven't tried yet. Everybody in the world has potential, I don't see why somebody who's gold/diamond should get into a fairly prestigious team because she has "potential".

It's like applying for a CEO position in which you have very little education or work experience but claiming that you have potential. If managers hired everybody with "potential", they would hire practically every person who applied. In reality that does not work out because most "potential" cases don't end up being successful. That's why managers/companies hire people who have work experience/education because they know that they have done work in the past that will prove that they will most likely be successful in this position, therefore ensuring a greater possibility that the managers don't need to do more work and find other employees to replace this one.

Same concept with teams who recruit new members. If teams just recruited a bunch of gold/plat players with potential...most likely you won't end up with a GM/masters team. In terms of hiring this girl...clearly she has very little credentials. She played BW when she was in elementary...that's like saying I want to apply to become a computer programmer and I learned how to use the keyboard when I was in grade 5. There is no evidence as far as I can tell that she is even close to masters...hell GM or has ever even won a tourney. Clearly no resume of starcraft high-level experience...so why would they hire her? If you can prove this to me I've love to hear it, but my argument simply comes back to the point that they simply hired her b/c she is a girl. That is the only explanation I can think of when I try to think why they recruited her.

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Couldn't name a single one for you. I can't imagine that the best girl in korea is Gold/diamond though...that'd be absurd. If megumixbear is what...masters? And she lives in NA? I seriously cannot imagine that they are no masters level girls in korea considering how many people play that game over there.

On July 15 2011 12:13 Greggle wrote:
Wow, I thought TL was smarter than this on average. I could go make an account under the name IMNestea right now and lose 4 placement matches and still end up in Gold. People really think she's in Gold? Keep in mind the greatest Starcraft talent scout in the world approved of her recruitment.

On July 15 2011 11:53 ShootingStars wrote:


LOL man, it's called the circle of life. Life isn't fair, sometimes PEOPLE get OPPORTUNITIES others don't get. Like how YOU were born in a great country where you could drink water, unlike AFRICA. Take it all in man, and accept that fact

By your terms I think you'd want everyone in Africa that are "well-deserved" into US/Canada and other developed countries for a better life, but GUESS WAT. It's very difficult to happen due to something called ECONOMY and other FACTORS