Despite the increase in female viewers, there still are very few female players in high level competitive eSports. The top female players in eSports mainly get exposure in female-only tournaments, most notably Counter-Strike, Dead or Alive 4, and StarCraft II. All-female eSports teams include the Frag Dolls and PMS Clan.
The first professional female StarCraft 2 player, Kim "Eve" Shee-yoon, was the subject of controversy in 2011 when her team manager stated that she had been selected for "her skills and looks."
Canadian StarCraft II Zerg player Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn first gained notoriety in the open qualifiers of IGN ProLeague 4, where she defeated top-tier Korean players. She is well known for being one of the few non-Korean players who can play at the same skill level as male Korean players.
In December 2015, Kayla "Squizzay" Squires became the first female Call of Duty player to turn professional upon qualifying for the Call of Duty World League in the Australian region.
Team
Siren, an all-female League
of Legends team,
was formed in June 2013. The announcement of the team was met with
controversy, being dismissed as a "gimmick" to attract the
attention of men. The
team disbanded within a month, due to the negative publicity of their
promotional video, as well as the poor attitude of the team captain
towards her team-mates.
A
team from Counter
Logic Gaming,
a large eSports company based in Los Angeles, California is known to
be one of the major eSports companies with an
all-female Counter-Strike:
Global Offensive team.[140] The
team is not very well known itself but with larger eSports
organizations like Counter
Logic Gaming,
venturing into female eSports, it could grow with the teams being
more mixed, or see a league just for women.
"sexual harassment is part of a culture, and if you remove that from the fighting game community, it's not the fighting game community."
He later apologized for his comments.