are there any female esports players?
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['Scarlett – Sasha Hostyn.', 'Mystik – Katherine Gunn.', 'HaganeNoTema – Sioban Bielamowicz.', 'Ricki Ortiz.', 'Kasumi Chan – Marjorie Bartell.', 'Sarah Lou – Sarah Harrison.', 'Tinares.', 'zAAz – Zainab Turkie.']
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Intel World Open brings esports to 2020 Summer Olympics. Intel has announced the Intel World Open, an esports tournament that will take place on the lead up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.
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Their national teams are made up of professional athletes. In the U.S., not only are there are no reliable opportunities for women to play professional baseball, but the sport is still considered taboo for women — even though they've been playing it for over a century.
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ATP is for men, and WTA is restricted to women. (Same thing for NBA and WNBA. Women cannot compete with men in basketball, so it's just simpler for women to have their own organization.)
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According to FIFpro there are some 65,000 professional football players out there (both male and female). Keep in mind though that there are a lot of countries where their respective players' associations aren't members of FIFpro.
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The WNBA is expanding its reach in video games as its players will appear in NBA 2K20. It's not the first time that gamers will be able to use female basketball players.
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High school esports is a growing phenomenon offering a whole new group of students amazing opportunities for personal and professional growth. In addition to the well-documented social and physical benefits of group activities, esports is able to offer students improved academic professional opportunities.
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The lore of Apex Legends Bloodhound does inadvertently reveal that they are not, in fact, a girl. Bloodhound does conform to standard gender roles and goes by “they”.
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You should see my sister!” line has had players putting on their tin foil hats, but Riot has never given us a confirmation, until today. Riot Games design director Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street stated in an interview that the two are indeed sisters!
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Women aren't in the NFL simply because most women's bodies won't hold up to the physicality. Men, who are naturally much more physically gifted and can take more physical punishment, can barely hold up and often don't. The only positions I could conceivably see a woman playing would be kicker or punter.
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['PAX Jax.', 'PAX Twisted Fate. ... ', 'Whistler Village Twitch. ... ', 'UFO Corki. ... ', 'Black Alistar. ... ', 'Human Ryze. ... ', 'Silver Kayle. ... ', 'King Rammus (Bowser) ... ']
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The investigation focused on player transgressions, and a statistical analysis of a large number of matches found definitively that referees made harsher decisions in the female compared with male games. ... There may be a widespread expectation that women should be less aggressive than male players.
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Esports (also known as electronic sports, e-sports, or eSports) is a form of sport competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams.
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Esports players earn an average of $1,000 to $5,000 per month — or about $60,000 per year. It's grown massively since its inception in the late '90s (shown below) and it's not stopping any time soon. Top games paying players include Dota 2, Counter-Strike, League of Legends, Starcraft II, and Fortnite (among others).
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P.E.K.K.A's gender has been confirmed as female, as one of the Loading Screen Hints states, "P.E.K.K.A's armor is so strong, Spring Traps don't affect her!"
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Who is EwOk? Deaf Fortnite streamer who became FaZe's first female star. Soleil 'EwOk' Wheeler is one of the most inspirational streamers in the Fortnite community. Not only was she first female to join FaZe Clan, she did so at only 13.
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According to FIFPro the average monthly salary for female footballers is $600 (€527). Of the 3,600 players surveyed, approximately half received no pay, while of the remaining participants, 60% earned less than $600.