HANGZHOU, Sept 24 — Jing Xuan TENG ESports’ inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed...
HANGZHOU, Sept 24 — Jing Xuan TENG ESports’ inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.
Large numbers of young women turned out for the first day of matches at the specially constructed China Hangzhou Esports Center, picking out souvenir pins from the stadium shop and posing with staff dressed as characters from the wildly popular Arena of Valor game.Only two women, Sabina Ibragimova of Uzbekistan and Nguyen Thi Phuong Yen of Vietnam, were scheduled to play during the dozens of officially mixed-gender games today.
Even when they make it to eSports’ top ranks, women face assumptions of lower skill levels compared to male players, as in the case of starShe was accused of cheating in 2016 by opponents who thought her movements were too precise to have been unassisted—all because she was a woman. “When there are more and more women on stage, girls see that their eSports skills are actually quite good... and more and more will become athletes,” Chen told AFP.player, said she thought there could be “more eSports competitions specifically for women”, similar to many other sports.
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