I've been reading some comments in response to this announcement, stating how it's completely expected and deserving that orgs are pulling back from feCS since we can't even qualify for events like cctv, and that we don't bring any value to the game. We all know we aren't good enough to play against tier2/tier3 teams. How could we be, when we have a few hundred girls playing FACEIT vs tens of thousands of men grinding pugs even BEFORE hitting level 10? We work everyday to improve ourselves, to show a better level of CS, but we're aware of our current skill ceiling. Our goal is to become better, to win and make our orgs and fans and family proud of us, but the main focus is towards bringing more girls into the game. To work towards a future where our current best players and teams would get easily outplayed by young girls coming into the scene. And this can only happen when girls can install CS and not feel out of place. Currently, the only safe place for girls is Faceit, which is now heavily fighting against sexism and bullying. We all know that any CS player will only install faceit after hundreds, if not thousands of hours on Valve servers, where you improve yourself to a point where it naturally leads to playing on Faceit, and how many young girls will survive hundreds of hours of unsupervised sexism, harassment, etc on Valve servers? Boys also get flamed and bullied, which is also unacceptable, but usually is not because of your identity, of your gender. It's not targeted at who you are outside of the game. For girls, it is. To me this issue is as important as high visibility tournaments like ESL Impact I know how many people are going to/have been flaming feCS lately, but the only thing we want is to see more girls on the game we love. We are fighting towards a future where any pug we play, we play on a server that has 5 girls in average. When this happens, then we can talk about girls playing against high tier players. Until then, we will keep working, playing, improving, hopefully inspiring young girls to install and grind CS, to play with and against us. Sorry for the long text 😬