eSahara adds female player MaddeLisk! - Page 19

On January 06 2012 03:37 kellymilkies wrote:
Poor girl must be looking at this thread and thinking "What's going on?!"

On January 06 2012 00:57 felisconcolori wrote:
Congrats to MaddeLisk - hope eSahara treats you well and that they help you up your game and get you into some good tournaments. I have to say, I also have reservations on the picture they used and how it was cropped (I imagine there's a really nice dress outside the picture) but aside from that... You're masters, you're also masters while getting a PhD in Mathematics, and you're Swedish. Without falling completely to white-knight mode, you're better than me and I hope to hear about your rise in the competitive scene. Also, please post amazing analysis and scholarly essays on TL using that combined SC2/Math background. I'm sure there's things that could benefit from some rigorous mathematical analysis.

eSahara - nice pickup, but did you have to emphasize the gender aspect so heavily in your announcement?

On January 06 2012 04:03 Befree wrote:
For a moment, I'm going to grant the (baseless) assumption that she was picked for her gender. Even if this were so, why would this be so terrible? There exist female leagues. People watch these leagues. Why would a team not want to sponsor someone in these leagues? It completely accomplishes their goal of advertising their company/products. Where do you get this delusional idea that a team's sole goal is to sponsor the very best players for the very top tournaments?

What do you believe would be "right'? Should players who participate in the female tournaments often just continue to play without sponsorship? Should teams be like "no way, I'm not picking her! That'd be discrimination! I don't care about the audience that the sponsorship would get from sponsoring her! If there exists a male player better out there, we must get him! Who cares if he may do poorly in the tournaments he plays in and our sponsorship will be completely useless. He's better, and that is all that matters!"

If sponsorship worked purely by the way lots of people on here seem to think it should work, this site would likely not even exist. And the whole foreign scene would probably have never had much of a chance to grow anywhere close to what it is now. And now people are asking that we exclude people, that we have some sort of elitist system which doesn't allow for the growth of any new pro player bases? Fucking hypocrites.

Good luck to eSahara and Maddelisk . I'm always so impressed with math PhD's, I have to imagine someone with a mind for that will be very successful at Starcraft. eSahara looks to have a pretty strong roster. I'm sure we'll be seeing lots from them.

On January 06 2012 04:25 SnuggleZhenya wrote:
To anyone getting upset over this: When you are a more profitable player for this team to pick up, then maybe you can say something.

On December 14 2011 18:23 sirachman wrote:
Are only attractive girls able to be good at Starcraft? I just find it hard to believe that every female to be signed by a team is. If this is just a coincidence that is fine. However if either teams only recruit women if they are attractive, or teams recruit people simply because they are then that is bad for eSports.

On January 06 2012 04:23 Deletrious wrote:
There are female tourneys, of course there will be females on teams. Arguments about her relative skill to men are irrelevant and smack of sexism.

"My favourite strategy, well I like to play mass lings vs terran or mass muta vs ptotoss. But I'm not sure I have a favourite one.."

On January 06 2012 04:23 Deletrious wrote:
There are female tourneys, of course there will be females on teams. Arguments about her relative skill to men are irrelevant and smack of sexism.

Congratulations to you MaddeLisk!