Thoughts on the RedBull event/women's e-sports?

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bdyrda

Was watching RyanCentral and he talked a little bit about how can't take the RedBull event seriously for women's e-sports when it's a gimmick tournament. Having tuned in to a few games, I understand what he means. This event has gained some decent journalist attention as a big event for women's e-sports but it lacks competitive integrity. It's an off-season joke tournament in the middle of the season when every other league is playing serious matches.

This is not the best look for women's e-sports. They could have done the same event without the gimmick and used this opportunity to showcase Clove or something, "clove must be picked" would be an alright twist that maintains competitive integrity. Instead we get GC players tripping over their feet on ranked triple duellist comps.

Maybe it's not that serious. Maybe the players don't care this much. Maybe I wasted my time writing this.

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Rocky22

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If they played iso I wouldn’t care tbh

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Hynix

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The fact is that "game changers" events will never be taken seriously, because they:

aren't playing to eventually compete at the highest level
have a game quality lower than that of tier 2

Frankly, it doesn't matter what "gimmick" events that they pull, nobody will care either way.

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bdyrda

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I wish I could argue with this but as it stands GC has been stagnant without much evidence of the players or the quality of their games improving. We've been talking about Florescent forever as the stand out GC player. In other leagues, you have quite a few names trading blows which is what you want in a competitive environment.