EPTLOL. Congrats to Kaitlyn, hope to see more female presence in the actual player booths over the next few months.
Quantic Gaming Introduces Kaitlyn! - Page 4
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las91
United States5080 Posts
LOL. Congrats to Kaitlyn, hope to see more female presence in the actual player booths over the next few months. | ||
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justinpal
United States3810 Posts
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MassTank
Italy21 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
 . I read the interview, she was heavily into brood war when it came out and stayed up late to watch all the games. I think she definitely earned this, and I am looking forward to see her play! | ||
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Thor.Rush
Sweden702 Posts
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:05 illidanx wrote: do we have any more pics? That pic in the OP is too small for me to determine if she is cute or not. follow the links and follow her while your there! also she will be streaming tonight. | ||
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LingBlingBling
United States353 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:05 JIJI_ wrote: Very nice pickup. I watch Miss Kaitlyn's stream quite often and she is very smart, good looking, speaks well, cool to watch, and I have no doubt she can make it up to GM with practice help from her new teammates (she has 2 engineering degree's which is just as hard or harder than making GM!!) She might not be at the skill level of say a Scarlett just yet, but give her time! Not really, Canadian unvi and education system is far different then geting a Engineering degree in USA, and depends what kind of engineering, some are far more easy to study for then other fields. Anyways grats I guess. guess every team these days are doing this for better marketing for the team. to clear some things up shes in Quantic's training section, she wont be playing with the real team like the Koreans, they wont wast their time having top players train someone like kaitlyn. if you want to compare, She is like Desrow, situation where Desrow is on FXO-NA which is like a train program and to help market. Has nothing to do with the Korean side or players. | ||
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EleanorRIgby
Canada3923 Posts
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PanN
United States2828 Posts
On May 05 2013 03:42 trinxified wrote: If I may ask, why does someone get the privilege to join a pro-gaming team and only be in Masters league? You do realize that theres plenty of pros in masters right? Grand masters literally means nothing when high masters players play them all the time. | ||
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SlixSC
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Uncultured
United States1340 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:41 SlixSC wrote: On a philosophical level, I really don't like this. Gender equality should be about equality of opportunity not equality of outcome. This isn't about gender equality it's about publicity. They didn't hire her to get more females on the team, they did it to get attention. Which I'm all for. | ||
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Fluffboll
Sweden516 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:41 SlixSC wrote: On a philosophical level, I really don't like this. Gender equality should be about equality of opportunity not equality of outcome. Or maybe she's actually good and a proper prospect for the Academy team to fully develop her talent This applies even more to the post above mine. | ||
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SlixSC
666 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:43 Uncultured wrote: This isn't about gender equality it's about publicity. They didn't hire her to get more females on the team, they did it to get attention. Which I'm all for. That makes sense. On May 05 2013 07:44 Fluffboll wrote: Or maybe she's actually good and a proper prospect for the Academy team to fully develop her talent Oh, please. This isn't about skill, there are several thousand players who are better than her. Don't delude yourself into thinking that the recruitment was the result of skill. | ||
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snam
Sweden78 Posts
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Fluffboll
Sweden516 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:47 SlixSC wrote: That makes sense. Oh, please. This isn't about skill, there are several thousand players who are better than her. Don't delude yourself into thinking that the recruitment was the result of skill. Well aren't you aggressive. I merely put forward an idea that isn't that far out of the realm of possibility. Besides talent isn't directly equal to current skill. A good scout will detect a talent before he/she has become something so they can foster that talent correctly. Now I don't know anything about this player but people are so quick to jump on to the rage-train and it is quite sad. | ||
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SlixSC
666 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:52 Fluffboll wrote: Well aren't you aggressive. I merely put forward an idea that isn't that far out of the realm of possibility. Besides talent isn't directly equal to current skill. A good scout will detect a talent before he/she has become something so they can foster that talent correctly. Now I don't know anything about this player but people are so quick to jump on to the rage-train and it is quite sad. I don't really see how I am raging here, but ok. All I'm saying is that there are several thousand players out there who are working just as hard as her (and some even harder) and are better than her who have not been given the same chance she has been given. You are basically ignoring several thousand players who are better than her just so you can hang on to some outlying possibility that she might have been the best candidate based on skill. I'm sorry but that is delusional by definition. | ||
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kethers
United States719 Posts
On May 05 2013 03:39 Fujikura wrote: The Canadian Zerg player has a degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science Just this sentence alone makes me respect her. That's no small feat to accomplish. | ||
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snam
Sweden78 Posts
On May 05 2013 07:56 SlixSC wrote: I don't really see how I am raging here, but ok. All I'm saying is that there are several thousand players out there who are working just as hard as her (and some even harder) and are better than her who have not been given the same chance she has been given. You are basically ignoring several thousand players who are better than her just so you can hang on to some outlying possibility that she might have been the best candidate based on skill. I'm sorry but that is delusional by definition. Do you think she should turn this opportunity down because you claim there are thousands of people more suited to the job than her? Does her being picked up by an academy hinder all of these other thousand people from working hard and eventually get noticed? I don't think so. | ||
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SlixSC
666 Posts
On May 05 2013 08:06 snam wrote: Do you think she should turn this opportunity down because you claim there are thousands of people more suited to the job than her? Does her being picked up by an academy hinder all of these other thousand people from working hard and eventually get noticed? I don't think so. No and that's not what I said. Of course she should take the opportunity, but people shouldn't pretend that this is anything more than a publicity stunt. I initially assumed that this was about gender equality, a publicity stunt however makes by far the most sense. And I always base my opinions on whatever makes the most sense and not what other people want me to think, because if life has taught me anything it's the understanding that what most other people think is not necessarily the result of logical thinking but the result of social pressure. And I know that we are all expected to white-knight this girl, but I can't get myself to just ignore the obvious fact that this was a publicity stunt. And let me just say that there is nothing wrong with that. it's in the best interest of the team. | ||
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DenTenker
United States606 Posts
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