As a girl, I resent girl-only tourneys. Why not participate with guys in leagues that already exist? I think being the best of both genders warrants more bragging rights. This feels like the Special Olympics.

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Somebody needs to pull a juwanna mann on that community. Just to see if it's possible. But I'm excited. Women are technically the majority of the population and tf2 needs a bigger audience, so why not?

It's a showmatch for the round robin. Why not do something different?

As a girl, I agree with you. But this is not a tournament. It is a scrim between two teams that are playing the Round Robin. They are both the only all-girls teams. One is from Europe, one is from North America. They thought it'd be fun to stream it. Many of these players are in competitive TF2 and they're all amazing.

Don't worry, we're not turning this into a "gurl gam3r" or whatever thing. It's just a scrim with all ladies!

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Because all I hear about is women wanting to be equal, and then they purposefully separate themselves out for something like a girls-only show match like it's a novelty. What's the point? People are people. It isn't like I'm going to get to see their boobs during the game, so why should it be any more interesting than watching more seasoned players? Viewers should be earned, not granted because somebody has a vagina.

As a girl, I have to disagree with this.

nevermind then

oh wow this is a thing

do they get mad if you post looking for a tf2 gf

That went downhill rather quickly. And people wonder why the TF2 community doesn't grow. *smh*

how is having a ladies only tf2 match considered trying to separate themselves from men

It's not. This thread is. Let's make a new thread everytime 2 all male teams play each other. EQUALITY FOR ALL!

Can we have an All-male transatlantic TF2 HL showdown as well then?

Except the Olympics are divided as such because of the physical differences between men and women. This does not apply to Team Fortress 2, or any video game.

You do understand that a flick of the wrist or swish of the arm can't compare to a full-on activity like running, lifting, and long-jumping, correct?

As a girl, I agree with this.

Uh... hello gentlemen. This is just an event with chicks playing in it. Dont over analyze it please. lol. Let the chicks play. :)

Guess we shoulda sent a HL team to i46 :(

Either way I'm going to masturbate furiously to this.

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They don't put forth the same amount of effort as male players generally. I don't know why that's hard to understand. It has nothing to do with gender whatsoever. When I had the time and internet to pour more time into the game, I was better than most of my male friends and could go toe-to-toe with people that had been playing longer than I had. I put together a team, including one other female, and I think that with our resolve and our Invite mentor, we could have one day made it to LAN. It didn't fall apart because two girls were on the team, it fell apart because my pocket disappeared, our prodigy Scout chose real-life sports, and our versatile caller dropped off the grid.

You were pressing physical differences being relevant to video games, and now you're changing your tune and grasping at straws. Those statistics don't prove anything other than, hey, guys play video games more than girls. What a revolutionary notion!

We're not a poor minority, most girls just don't give a fuck. There's no reason to be treated differently.

can you use 9 medics in highlander

LMAO

Just cause you're not running or using strength doesn't mean playing video games doesnt involve physical effort.

Hand eye coordination, reaction times, "aim", all that stuff matters. It's not anything against the female gender but those attributes are all weaker in females just like how strength and other athletic abilities are weaker.

i protest the naming of r/teamfortresstwox due to its heterosexist implication that gender is determined by the chromosomes and the subsequent exclusion of transfemales, women with androgen insensitivity syndrome and those with unusual or intersex chromosome patterns such as XO, XXY, XXX et cetera, if these marginalised groups are not also permitted to participate in these "women-only" events i will be complaining to the ACLU or.... something

your simplistic embracement of the outdated, patriarchal two-gender model is an affront to esports. email me to receive copies of my 350-page dissertation, a history of cisgenderist prejudice in video games 1985-2012, for further information

ok so that wasn't 100% serious

but probably the biggest reason women don't usually make it past open is because of the widespread sexism that is either actively promoted or passively tolerated by virtually all of the influential figures in the community. why bother to put in the effort to improve for a community that's hostile to you from the start because of something beyond your control? most people aren't that invested in a video game

im personally offended

yes, because there is a 20 millisecond difference in reaction time between genders in the most athletic people in the world, women cannot be competitive with such prime male specimens. truly, shining examples of physical fitness; models of masculine prowess.

http://i.imgur.com/QxOTv.jpgexhibit one

exhibit two

Holy Shit, An All Girl Team????