Should eSports Tournaments be Gender-Locked?

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Should eSports Tournaments be Gender-Locked?

Added: 22.08.2015 2:18 | 12 views | 0 comments

Last year, a lot of hackles were raised over a Hearthstone tournament in Finland. The reason for the outcry was that the eSports tournament in question, the Assembly Summer 2014, said that the tournament was open only to Finnish male gamers. This sparked a great deal of outrage over whether or not there should be gender-locked eSports tournaments. Such a discussion carries on to this day as there was recently an all-female Hearthstone tournament by ImbaTV. The question that we often hear asked is: should eSports tournaments be gender-locked?