Engineering tier1 female players

KICKING OFF THE OFFSEASON

As of the time of writing, it is not implausible to assume that there is some variation in ability between female and male esports players. However, as a humble disciple of Lazlo Polgar, i believe that a solution to this problem can be reached for the specific case of tactical shooters.

The two differences I have determined would play the most important roles in highlighting male/female disparity would be spatial intelligence (debatable for the specific case of esports performance) [2] and reaction time differences [1] (non-debatable) . All the others either aren't constant factors or do not occur with enough frequency to be significant.

To this effect, I propose an experiment:

• Sample female individuals of ages 15 - 21 who already demonstrate exceptional ability relative to peers of the same gender. This should take care of or at most drastically reduce the differences in spatial perception performance between the genders [1], as this ability positively correlates with enhanced cognitive function[4]

• Place them on a moderately intensive exercise regimen, as this has arguably been shown to reduce the gap in reaction times between the genders to non-significant levels [1]

• Have them accustom themselves to higher sensitivities, as the general consensus is that women possess, specifically, finer motor precision over men [3], although this has also been extensively debated.

REFERENCES:

1. Jain, A., Bansal, R., Kumar, A., & Singh, K. (2015). A comparative study of visual and auditory reaction times on the basis of gender and physical activity levels of medical first year students. International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research, 5(2), 124. https://doi.org/10.4103/2229-516x.157168

2. Kaufman, S. B. (2007). Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial visualization ability: Can they be accounted for by differences in working memory capacity? Intelligence, 35(3), 211–223. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2006.07.009

3. Liutsko, L., Muiños, R., Ral, J. M. T., & Contreras, M. J. (2020). Fine motor precision tasks: Sex differences in performance with and without visual guidance across different age groups. Behavioral Sciences, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10010036

4. Kokkinakis, A. V., Cowling, P. I., Drachen, A., & Wade, A. R. (2017). Exploring the relationship between video game expertise and fluid intelligence. PLoS ONE, 12(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186621

QA:
Why did you write this? I am bored and drunk. It's way too calm an evening for a Monday.
Is this well researched? No. The fuck do you think I am, a scientist?
Is this a fun idea? yea lol

reaction time is meaningless as long as its <300ms

Don't let this distract you from the fact that Enerii is almost as good as Florescent and yet no one talks about her
#MVGA

don't think reaction time is a big factor. the biggest contributor is obviously that there are far less women playing than men, so it's not surprising that there's not a bunch of top tier females when you adjust for player size.

to me the question is why are there literally no top tier females, and i think the blame has to go to game changers. Game changers has succeeded in putting attention on female talent, but failed at making them better. Literally separating them into a t3/t4 league, rewarding them with success for beating said t3/t4 teams, and having no incentive to practice/improve in t2.

Remember the og c9 white roster's claims about being the first female team to integrate t1? They won gc and felt on top of the world, it's hard to go from that to getting ro64'd by randos in opens; they have no incentive to keep trying and would just prefer to collect paycheck in gc.

P.S: Lazlo Polgar's ethnicity actually negates his entire life's work methinks. Like bro how is an Ashkenazi jew partaking in the nature vs nurture argument on the side on nurture like my brother in Christ

my take is GC always plays against GC and not tier2/3 teams so the best teams in GC(SR) are usually never tested and their weaknesses never exposed so they never fix or improve upon themselves

its gonna take a whole generation of girls being gamers from a young age for them to ever have a chance unless you find truly naturally gifted women out in the wild who discover a passion for FPS gaming late in development(the 15-21 range you mention)

Here before post got nuked

the thing is 1. there are less Women in Val -> less talented players -> less possible professionals

2. Women arent driven so much to win (i cant speak for all) -> they play the game in Duos/trios/e-dates etc just bcs its popular/graphics or quirky sounds -> just for fun and stuff but dont have the mental to do everything to win and grind countless hours to get ahead of the casual player
3. (more like a thing i noticed from my ranked games) they tend to lock in agents they like more (e.g. sage, reyna) based on their perception e.g. they look cool/cute/:3 or smth like that and dont look at the map and pick the correct agent or dont fill
4. Game Changers competition is not as tough as Franchise or even T2 and because (thats just me guessing) they scrim mostly game changer teams (and t2/t3 from what ive heard)
5. missing access: because the open qualifiers for the T2 regions are just once or twice a year it is hard for Game Changer teams to qualifie through that -> if they blunder once or twice theyre out -> have to wait AGAIN for like a whole year
   pls dont get this post wrong, i like everybody

Interesting read even if you are just yapping for fun.

Though, I really do wish people would give the biological differences argument a little bit more consideration. Even if most girls play less games than most boys it does not explain the lack of successful professional female players when competing against men. In theory, we are taking 100 good male players and 100 good female players and the men are winning 99% of the time. Is this not a bit absurd?

I would still like to see GC players take a shot at the main league either way and see how they fair.

This would’ve been so much funnier if you were suggesting to genetically create female valorant super soldiers with that title