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ESL Impact is a professional circuit solely created with the goal in mind to ignore everything about the player except the skill. In fact, it was made for women to unapologetically enjoy what they love the most: Counter-Strike. On the server, it's your skill that matters, not your gender. You could probably already tell what would happen. A couple of days ago, they announced the changes for the upcoming 2024 season which includes the removal of a beloved tournament, changes to regional slot distributions and updates to standalone events. In essence, it is about the removal of slots of SA (Southern America) teams. None of this really matters but you have favelas seething under all of ESL Impact's tweets because that's their natural reaction to bad news. This "drama" has moved on to LinkedIn of all places where people discuss the topic as if they have any clue about the topic lol. Here's a link to a mad Brazilian pro g*mer with the moniker larinhagoddess who is screaming about something idk: https://x.com/larinhagoddess/status/1731339510984638832
Drama
Much more important, however, is the fact that nobody could predict what would actually happen if a marginalized league for women ever got decent price pools. And by nobody I of course mean every single chud possible. Previously it was quite common for male players to play undercover in meaningless online tournaments aimed at women for the grand price pool of 250β¬. Everyone laughed and people moved on. As soon as transgender players become involved, people in the scene get really mad. Take this neat little picture for example which shows the highest rated players of Season 4:
Some Reactions:
Very skilled player but this is not normally. Check him pants
Fights between Personalities
Very long section and kinda not that funny 
One of the biggest professional chuds and a previous caster, a guy called semmler who got fired from every tournament and circuit after sharing covid misinformation and sperging out about muslims replacing white men and similar stuff, saw the possibility to jump right into the fray:
https://x.com/OnFireSemmler/status/1731349841718997328
In this case, I think it would be best if we lacked empathy. Didn't take long, did it?
There are some insanely funny copes under that tweet:
And then there is another feminine player called Ari defending empathy from evil bigots:
cis teams dominated for years but the second a trans player dares to do good suddenly it's an issue
suck my female peepee and balls, Semmler
Which of course led to the player in question being harassed:
To which semmler replied with:
Good. The men competing in this female league should feel deeply ashamed for taking opportunities away from the women striving to compete in it.
Considering the backlash one gets when commenting on this topic, it isn't surprising to see no pushback from the women in the league.
If women competitors speak up alone or in too small a group, they'll be ostracized and lose their careers.
A majority of the women in the league must organize and push back all at once for any change to be made.
He named himself ''empathy''. He knows full well what he's doing
This of course led to other personalities in the scene adding their two cents, including the saudi-money-hungry host Frankie Ward:
Every so often someone who doesn't care about ESL Impact decides to use feigned concern to make trans women feel unwelcome rather than actually focusing on the important issues like regional slots and the removal of Katowice from the Impact calendar.
And then randoms with anonymous profiles who have never watched Impact will claim players have DM'd them or that the League predominantly features trans women when neither of those things are true.
Btw, the original point of this tweet is akin to when politicians create culture wars around things like Trans rights, low traffic neighbourhoods, stopping the boats... rather than the things that need changing. So in Impact's case, regions missing their opportunity to play.
You have gone so far off the deep end that you think men pretending to be women is a "feigned concern".
I've always been in that "deep end". The water is way friendlier when everyone is welcome.
This is the same woman by the way who spent years of her life advocating for feminism and then took the Saudi bag claiming those Arabs share the same values as her.
And then there is another "journ*list" with the following take:
https://x.com/RyanAtDust2/status/1731671805385924816
I cannot explain how enraging it is that we have decided to pick out and harass a transgender teenager for doing nothing other than competing a league designed for them while playing on an unsalaried team. What the frick are we doing here. Where are the adults in the room?
A lot of people seem to be concerned that this one person is βtaking a spot away from a Real Womanβ’οΈβ when they probably haven't even followed the scene to realize that ESL is taking entire spots away from regions. Selective caring, I guess.
The replies under his tweet aren't quite as amicable:
The player in question
Before anyone asks who this is, this is a literal who, like there a thousands of players in NA (terrible at cs) better than her literal who tier.
Poor gal is getting terrorized by mean comments 
but at least her hugbox is nice to her (like some of u are to me 
)
https://x.com/empathy_cs/status/1731646761444532244
I put my entire life into cs and try so fricking hard to get better. I come out and everyone makes fun of me every game, my ex teammates block me and call me slurs, I can't play without random people throwing and making fun of me. I play impact and I'm the enemy and "I should be ashamed and kill myself" for it. It doesn't matter what I do the problem is I'm ugly and trans. Like genuinely what do people want me to do? Maybe if "mixed teams" wouldn't call me a "f*ggot" when I ask to play with them things would be different.
People even fight her in the replies 
https://x.com/empathy_cs/status/1731648425731686729
The amount of hate I've received is unreal. So many people messaging me awful shit when I've done nothing is unbelievable. I'm tired of playing 10 hours a day and trying so hard to get better just to look at my phone and see people messaging me to kill myself.
"Haven't done anything". You are stealing top spots from women because you aren't good enough to compete with men. That's certainly "doing something"
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No one cares how much time you put into the game, you're not on an even playing field. I can't believe how blind you are.
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God I hate this concern language so much. A guy joins a women's team and BTFOs everyone, but as long as you can find enough adjectives and descriptors like 'transgender', 'teen', 'doing it for free' etc. you can excuse literally anything. And people will actually fall for these foidspeak emotional """arguments"""! Sad!
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