00:12I've heard go make them sandwiches I've heard to go back to the kitchen I've heard that I am
00:17not good because I'm a girl welcome ladies and gentlemen to day number one of the fortnight
00:23dreamhack tournament people want to watch people who are good so if you play a lot and you're
00:29practicing people want to see that because there's no existing support there a lot of female gamers
00:37don't want to go pro nobody wants to be the nail that gets hammered back down I've seen a lot
00:47of
00:47girls at the top of male competitive environment quit looking good you got it good luck
01:01esports it's a quickly emerging form of professional video game playing where individual players or
01:07teams compete to win cash prizes sometimes in the millions of dollars in 2020 the esports industry
01:16is predicted to surpass one billion dollars in revenue popular games like overwatch and
01:22fortnight are attracting a very wide audience still despite this the competitive gaming world
01:29is known to be incredibly male-dominated so just out of curiosity you guys treat every
01:35girl that comes into your comp games there's no comment that can turn me away from this game
01:44i still want to play chastity also known by her gaming handle cupcake is one of five members of
01:51team paradox an all-female gaming team trying to go pro each member of team paradox ranks in the top
01:58one percent of players for the game overwatch this game when it came out like three years ago i fell
02:12in
02:12love with it immediately and it quickly became like a big part of my life currently we are one of
02:19the
02:20only female teams a lot of our team would love to see one of us go pro we are practicing
02:27so so hard so
02:29maybe like the whole team maybe gets looked at and picked up by an org or maybe one of our
02:36players is
02:36scouted and brought up that would be amazing we want to push not only our team forward but our players
02:42forward i do really enjoy playing with women because i believe that the layer of gender really
02:49doesn't matter it's just out the window my name is stephanie harvey also known in the gaming industry as
02:55miss harvey i'm a professional counter-strike players and i won in 2007 2010 11 12 and 15.
03:04what i've learned throughout my career if you want to become pro you need to work extremely hard
03:11and kind of fight for this by yourself a lot of the people in the community thinks that you're stealing
03:18a
03:18spot or that that money should go somewhere else or that you're not good enough to be sponsored
03:23there's so much attention when you reach the top of a top game and so much pressure that a lot
03:30of
03:30the times these girls don't really want to continue and pursue or feel like it's worth it
03:42how i'm feeling uh hungry i think that's my one number one thing on my mind right now
03:48is getting food but in terms of uh playing i'm feeling pretty calm i'm not feeling anxious yet at
03:56least maybe when i get there i'll feel a little more uh nervous today is a dream hack anaheim so
04:02that they're doing a solos tournament so everybody's just playing against each other there's 1200 people
04:08competing and only 100 people in the grand finals i'm a madison man nicknames maddie and i play for
04:16gen g sports i got signed in 2018 probably roughly practiced lately about six to eight hours a day
04:24and that's pretty much every single day i have a lot of pressure because the last solo tournament i
04:30i didn't do as well in australia and i i went on twitter and i was just getting flamed for
04:37no reason
04:38and i feel like the extra pressure of just being who i am can take a huge toll on even
04:44my performance
04:44because i don't want to let anyone else down let alone myself down i don't want to make any mistakes
04:50because the whole world's watching it's kind of stressful
04:53you want uh left wander yeah all three eat them
05:06okay i think i knew the harassment i would face because i've always experienced it being just a
05:11girl online like i've heard everything since i was nine years old it's definitely gotten more
05:15personal because it's like my everyday like job and i have to hear harassment from other pros and
05:21it's pretty annoying but at the same time i'm like someone has to take the bullet in order for things
05:26to
05:26change welcome ladies and gentlemen to dreamhack anaheim we're at the anaheim convention center
05:33i'm volunteer w joined by shia wager and today is the fortnite dreamhack tournament this is a 250 000
05:40prize pool grand prize of 30 000 so it's simple you last longer you get points you eliminate people
05:47to make you last longer you get points it's all about survival all about winning that game
05:53those mats you found like mid-rotation were huge because you had no mats you're playing well keep
05:58it up keep it up they've been practicing for months so once we're here my strategy is more to just
06:04make
06:04sure they're comfortable go get them you know an energy drink some water just really do everything
06:11outside of the game so they can focus on just the game in esports right now there aren't any female
06:17players at the top level of play it really hasn't been explored i think my name is barry lee and
06:23i'm an
06:24esports agent with evolve talent agency i represent a variety of pro players in different esports if you
06:31look at the marketing for video games in the late 90s and even in the early 2000s a lot of
06:38it has been
06:38directed to boys that had a large swing towards like skewing the gaming population way more male
06:44dominated what we're seeing now is clawing back against it so until teams are saying that we want
06:52the best female gamers then you know develop them find coaches you know coach up these female talent scout
06:58them out and then really just make it worth their while to be the nail that sticks out you're playing
07:06well keep it up keep it up genji has been making strong efforts towards building a program of female
07:12gamers it remains to be seen whether genji has a top all-female fortnite team you know i wish them
07:19the best
07:20we got to just fix it you can shoot bro my map i was like i can get my sword
07:30sword i tag it up
07:31in fortnite you can play well but still do poorly so it can be really frustrating like mentally
07:38when you're playing really well but things just aren't going your way
07:43it's all gucci still got tomorrow too nothing to stress over
07:49it is indeed annoying but it's fortnite fortnite is annoying
07:54that's a good game i had a sniper rpg i didn't even know where it came from
07:58if i didn't get hit by that i would have been oh you saw three matches remaining
08:01yeah oh you're good yeah you're good
08:14i'm pretty devastated there was a power outage and i was eight points away from qualifying
08:20top 200 but they didn't give us an extra 30 minutes so i could play my last game so
08:26all i'm i guess i'm just ready for tomorrow because i know what to expect and i know i'll qualify
08:31if
08:31nothing else goes wrong there's kind of this misogist loop when you are a woman in gaming trying to get
08:38better you're trying to be a better competitor so you have to play more you play more so more chances
08:44that you get harassed or insulted while you're gaming where you're kind of depressed but you want
08:49to be better so you play more it makes you more depressed so it can be a little bit challenging
08:54it
08:55really affects you in the early years it is actually insane that every single person on this
09:01team is actually no i'm not going to because i put up with it for too many games we really
09:07don't care we
09:08really don't i went to university full-time last fall i got the esports scholarship which was
09:16quite a bit i played for their um overwatch team um i captained their team and i was going to
09:25school
09:26full-time and i was also working a part-time job so i was doing that all at one time
09:29and things
09:32started to go really really sour with my mental health at the end of february
09:38this year i um i ended up in the hospital for an attempted suicide yeah my one escape which is
09:49overwatch and gaming isn't exactly the most fun and safe environment obviously the community is toxic
09:59to everyone but a lot of the things that uh that were directed to me were um sexist and not
10:09great
10:11and i've had people since then they have brought up my suicide attempt in game and told me i i
10:19should
10:19have done it better basically so i did take a break from competing but i love overwatch so i did
10:28eventually
10:28come back no matter what happens in my life like mental illness this game is going to be there for
10:36me
10:42welcome back to the anaheim convention center it's now day two for the dream hack tournament
10:47there's some people who missed yesterday we're coming back again for more i mean yeah it's a second
10:52chance but it's a last chance at getting a shot at that title so much is on the line and
10:57the
10:58reputation from winning one of these tournaments is huge all righty this is the one this is the one
11:08there's a lot more high expectations as being a female on the professional field it definitely
11:14takes a toll because i don't want to disappoint not only my coach my myself and then the people that
11:20support me and then i don't want to hear the negativity that comes with it 40 seconds you ready
11:27good luck let's go maddie let's go let's go
11:36you're good
11:41today she's struggling more so than any other day
11:45it's 10 games so you gotta have the right mental fortitude for all 10.
11:50i hit somebody with my trap oh yes maddie might actually clutch up she's got four kills 14 alive
11:59this is her last game way to finish strong maddie you're gonna be really really close
12:06really really close so you're in what 164 right now so you got 36 slots go like
12:15below you so yeah it's just gonna come down to the wire i mean i know you don't want to
12:24hear it but you
12:24you you would have qualified yesterday i mean you would have it it's not fair
12:43maddie yeah no maddie got bumped out
12:49you're doing good maddie don't be so hard on yourself
12:53i would say i'm here to kick the gates open but i'm also here just because
12:56i want to win even though i'm not the best right now i i want to get there
13:01it probably will be difficult and right now the only tool that you have to help yourself
13:06is really building that shell and creating a support system around you to help you face adversity
13:36is
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