To say that there aren’t many women in esports is an understatement. From the very inception of virtual competition, it’s been a veritable boys club and the vast majority of pros are men. However, the times they are a-changin’. Female spaces and more inclusive tournaments are popping up across the board, and nowhere more so than 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends.
Only a few women have ever competed in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends Global Series. Lauren ‘GuhRL’ Habibi, Elvira ‘Esdesu’ Temirova, and Kornelia ‘Sabz’ Zawistowska are the most recognisable names from the ALGS, but there’s a whole host of talent surfing in the wake of these pioneering women. The biggest hurdles for the women’s esports scene, in Apex and otherwise, come from the fact that it’s hard to practise and progress. Pro League scrims are a tight clique, even when the majority of teams don’t turn up, and Apex has a significant lack of mid-tier tournaments. You’ve got the ALGS, and then you’ve got G-Loot Showdown and O꧃versight. Prize pools plummet from a million dollars to five thousand.
Daily competitions like new kid on the block Realm go some way to mitigate this, but solo leaderbo𝓰ards like this are more akin to a cash-incentivised ranked mode than a tournament proper.
The Celestial Cup has a smaller prize pool than G-Loot or Oversight, with the distinction that it’s a women’s-only competition. But the fact that the first pl♈ace team had to split $600 between its three members✃ didn’t stop the Sol League Split 3 Finals from being some of the most exciting Apex esports I’ve seen in years.
The tournament went on for a mammoth 11 rounds, culminating in an edge of your seat 2v2v2 to decide the winner. It was classic Match Point excitement as Lust ripped the trophy from TSM’s hands at the final second, cementing a rivalry that had been brewing all day. Women’s tournaments don’t just give female players a chance to participate, they give fans the opportunity to grow attached to teams, to support players, and to ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚget sucked into the storylines like they do the ALGS. Fans are sure to tune into the next Celestial Cup to see TSM versus Lust play out all over again, and the women’s scene will benef🍸it from that immensely.
The more women’s tournaments there are, the better the competition will be. Why do you think Phillip ‘ImperialHal’ Dosen is as good as he is? Because he can afford to play Apex Legends all day, honing his 💙cr𒅌aft and improving on his already considerable talent. To do the same, female players need competitions, and they need competitions that can pay the bills. While the Celestial Cup provided the thrills, it didn’t provide the prizes necessary for women’s Apex to reach the next level.
Enter the Apex Legends Open Tournament. A part of Galaxy Racer&rಞsquo;s HER Galaxy Tournament Series and backed by EA support, the open competition boasts a $100,000 prize pool, the largest ever for a women-only Apex tournament. This prize increases to a quarter of a million dollars when you in💫clude the six other HER Galaxy series tournaments taking place this year. With the excitement of the Celestial Cup and the prize pools of the Apex Legends Open Tournament, the women’s esports scene has never been better in Apex Legends.
The Open Tournament will be streamed 𝓀across six days in April, May, and June, and I implore you to to see the action firsthand. If you’re eligible to compete, for another few days, so why not throw your hat in the ring? Hopefully 2023 is the year that women’s Apex explodes, and by the time the next Pro League rolls around, we’ll see a few more women popping up there, too. In the meantime, I’💙m going to watch replays of that Celestial Cup match point final until my eyes fall out.