ANY Women Pro players?
I mean why is it al guys? are women not as good at the game as men? Do they not try? is there a stigma so teams wont sign females?
Can't tell me that nobody in the top 50 in challenger is female
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Men have something in their eye that allows them to better detect movement which helps a lot in a close fight. Also men tend to make more logical desicions while females make more desicions based on emotion. This comes from my health class btw i really dont know if its right. Im sure its just that no girls are good enough at the game to compete with the pro males.
The pro scene is predominantly males in any game because the pro gaming environment is extremely hostile to women. Any mistake from a woman is responded to with insane amounts of toxicity and it understandably drives people away. Not many people are willing to subject themselves to that.
Our player base is overwhelmingly male. Additionally, being a pro does have its draw backs. You have to live in a house with your team (some girls may find it awkward to live in a house with all boys.) Your entire life is on a schedule (when you wake up, when you eat, when you play, when you work out, when you go to sleep, etc.) Very little time for a social life. Plus, you can make a ton more money streaming. Girl streamers traditionally make a ton more money than guy streamers of the same rank. A top 50 challenger girl streamer (which I don't think exists right now) would probably be one of the top watched channels on twitch. A lot of people wouldn't be willing to give that up to be on a pro team that has a very small chance to make worlds and an even smaller chance at doing well at worlds.
Remilia (I think it's Sakura now) is a pro player.
It's not worth starting to talk about her gender. Almost anyone I know acknowledges her as female, but they also don't give her the title of a female pro.
I can't tell you that there is nobody in top 50 challenger that is female, but I also do not know specifically of any that are female.
I can tell you that there was a scouting grounds at the start of the split where a bunch of challenger players were invited (the teams would have no way of knowing if the player they were inviting was male or female) and I did not hear of any females showing up or read an article about any females showing up.
I do think that if there is a female looking to get into the pro scene and she is good a team will pick her up because they will get a ton of publicity (probably a challenger team will pick her up because players don't often go strait into the pro scene without going through the challenger scene first).
There is definitely a fear of the mob though. Players (male or female) have to have a very thick skin to make it in the pro scene because haters will come from anywhere.
Wildturtle didn't even step foot onto the stage this split before he was already receiving hate from random people about how much weaker TSM was going to be with him instead of Doublelift.
Even Faker has people ready to jump on the hate train if he ever has a bad game.