[–] xenoPsychologist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
is there anything they can do right?
[–] CulturalImperialist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Regional league for League of Legends. League has a lower ceiling on the usefulness on actions per minute, so it seems possible that a single exceptional female could make it to the top level, especially as support.
Full female team is of course as suicidal as it sounds. Years ago there was a Team Siren which was brought together by corporate sponsors and sold as grrrrrrl power claiming they were going to qualify for the proleague. To me, the funniest element was that looking individual rankings of the players they weren't even the best female team. That honor would go to Kitchen Bandits a for fun team of female streamers and the sisters and girlfriends of pros.
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[–] CulturalImperialist ago (edited ago)
Ceiling - as in skill ceiling. The game's mechanics don't have enough going on simultaneously to make an apm 350 player blow out a 300 apm everytime as they could in something like Starcraft.
[–] PeacefulAssassin 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Heard that 4 put of the 5 play support characters.
So no wonder they got destroyed
[–] AZ_PATRIOT3 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I find that hilarious...the women naturally pick the support characters. They cant escape the stereotype no matter what they do
[–] PeacefulAssassin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Funny how nature do that.
But for real, back when I ran a Halo 3 clan some of the support/defense players where girls.
It's that mind set of this is my home, this is my protector, I must help them.
[–] we_kill_creativity 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
the women naturally pick the support characters.
That's actually a positive trait in women...I wouldn't denigrate it.
[–] Humansized 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
i remember when their team got announced. literally a bunch of support mains who were all low ranks. pure marketing gimmick. there was a big cry about them because some other team trolled them by banning 5 supports instead of actual ban picks
[–] 22578870? 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Read elsewhere that they were also none of them at a level to be involved in this league anyway. They were chastised from the start for being out of their depth no matter what sex they were. But some called it sexist to talk about them not being good enough when it was easy to see from their individual rankings. The sexism was including them at all.
[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Ok so they didn't talk they showed, yet somehow I have a feeling all of this will be spun somhow of how great they actually were and those stupid white bois totally wall hacked wit their aim bots to win this high.
[–] FormerBaltimoreRes 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
I don't know why I went down this rabbit hole but it's even stupider than that. This team turned down far superior female players because they weren't pretty enough.
The idea was to make a cutie pie team that they could market to thirsty gamers. If the team was just passable the sponsors could train them 10+ hours a day to be actually decent. From a pure sheckles standpoint it wasn't a bad idea, they just didn't anticipate such a historically bad team.
In this game there are 8 ELO tiers you can be in, these players were from tier 5 (aka diamond). And To put this in perspective, it would be like putting the state champions from your high school baseball team up against the Yankees. Now that they look stupid the only thing left to do is cry sexism.
[–] SpreeFeech 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
What is LCL?
[–] GuyIDisagreeWith 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
League of Legends E-Sports bullshit.
[–] smoss 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
I went over to check out the thread on reddit, and man of course it was already locked down. Funny thing is they say it was due to 'mUh sExISM'. Give me a break, the team itself was sexist, with a legit 0% win rate, and ridiculous amount of deaths. This reminds me so much of team Siren, first time someone tried this all female stupid shit in league, that time they didnt even make it to the LCS lmao
[–] NewsGuy2020 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
Why can't girls play video games? It's not like IRL sports where generally men are physically superior. You'd think e-sports would make things more even.
[–] Well_Deserved_Brew 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There are lots of boys/men who play video games for 80 hours a week even without being pro. Very few girls. People can say what they want but guys just overall like games better. So there is a much smaller pool to pick from when you go all female.
[–] dirt_reynolds 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
It's bizarre. We play videogames in our house, wife and female children included. The kids only play with us or family & friends we actually know irl. They just don't have that killer instinct. Which is good for character but bad for competition. I can jump into some kind of death match with my wife, on a game she plays all the time and one that I rarely play and just shit all over her & her friends. Like it's not even fun for me. Their brains just don't operate on the same frequency as a normal male's brain. They can't apply strategy on the fly, there is no effort to analyze what the opposition is doing and modify their behavior to overcome that.
[–] we_kill_creativity 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
^Everyone knew this not that long ago and it was fine. None of that is a criticism of women, it's just an observation. There are things women are better at than men, and that's fine too. #1? Being a mom, which is super important job for society.
Before career women were common, the accepted norm was that, once the children grew up, their moms would then run charities and generally "help the poor", visit the elderly, operate soup kitchens, the list goes on...
Personally, I think our society and culture is in desperate need of women returning to that very important role, and soooooo much shit would fix itself if they did.