Julia "Ailuj" Childress was the first female StarCraft 2 player to play a match on the main stage of an MLG tournament. She played against LosirA on Friday of MLG Providence. Here's her interview with ESFI World, where she speaks about what it was like playing on the stage, her thoughts about the attention that female gamers have been getting, why Vancouver should be a stop next year and more. Time stamps under the video:
00:40 - Introduction, how she got into StarCraft 2 01:16 - About her streaming (viewership, controlling the chat, finding mods) 03:03 - Advice for people wanting to get into streaming 03:45 - Do female gamers get unwarranted attention? 04:40 - What do females need to do to get more notice in the community? 05:30 - ZOWIE DIVINA, general thoughts on female-only events 07:33 - First MLG? Competing in other tournaments? 08:35 - Why did you come to MLG and what do you think of the event so far? 09:20 - Strongest argument for MLG selecting Vancouver as a stop in the future 10:15 - Initial reaction when finding out she would be playing LosirA on the main stage 11:05 - What it was like playing in the booth on the main stage 12:10 - Did results live up to expectations? 13:50 - Relationship with Check Six Gaming, her current team 14:35 - Any reason behind choosing Check Six over a female-only team? 15:20 - Girls of StarCraft group on Facebook 16:45 - Short and long term goals as a competitive gamer 17:25 - What other games are you playing competitively? 18:15 - Where to find her, shoutouts
Thanks for the awesome interview and post. We welcome Julia to the team and are so glad to see the community take to her so well. I can promise you that you will see more out of her from us soon .
Its just pretty nice to finally have a female gamer in the spotlight after a whole year of starcraft. And though i expected her to get out by two quick 0-2 losses, she actually went pretty deep in the loserbracket, which is awesome
First of all, it's extremely helpful that the OP states what are the questions, and when I can find them in the video. Thanks a lot!
Then, on a less positive note :
On November 22 2011 18:05 CaptainHaz wrote: I'd pee in her butt.
In the name of common sense, and in light of the very recently highlighted article by iNcontrol, especially at that part + Show Spoiler +
C. Moderate. TL is often regarded as too harsh... I don't think it's harsh enough. Don't just close a thread mocking a player, delete it. That closed thread can still be found. Actively upvote and downvote on Reddit.. there is a lot of really dumb stuff that makes it far (sometimes) on reddit. As such, most of the community regards Reddit as a silly place where no real discussion is had. But that is home to a lot of people who WANT that place to be taken serious... be an active part of that! Jokes are great, poking fun at players and people is fine and good but taking it to extreme levels shouldn't be allowed to passively happen.. do something about it. I used TL and Reddit as examples but there are countless places where SC2 is discussed.. clean up your youtube comments, block trolls on twitter and ignore them... ban all the hate you can find in your stream chat. If we can clean up this community by 1% we have made the SC2 world a better place for everyone.
OK, english is not my first language, I just googled that magnificent expression, and I have to say that I am properly stupefied by the fact that this is supposedly a compliment ><
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