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Joining
me here, are the Divas of
Counter-Strike,
the women who make it
all happen, la crème de la crème, may I
introduce:
~BgC|jade (Playe /USA)~
~BgC|TatiaNa (Player/Denmark)~
~ BgC|aNouC
(CL, Spain) ~
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-Hey girls, ok, first
up, tell those reading this, a little about
yourself, your life away from Gaming, and where
your career in gaming began
:)
BgC|aNouC: Hi, my names
Ana Oliveras Daví aka aNouC, I’m 23 and I started
last year at University. I finished Audiovisual
Communications one year ago, and that’s why my
work has been as a reporter on a Radio Station,
since I was 14. I also love to work in Public
Relations, which is something that I can also do
online, in the Gaming Scene...
My Gaming career
started 5 and a half years ago when I started
being organiser in a Quake 1 Clan and with them I
learned how to play as well. Since then, I haven’t
been able to stop playing / being in contact with
the scene, writing, organizing LANs,
etc.
BgC|Jade: Hi, my name is
Misty Lea aka jade and I'm 26. I do graphic design
on the side but mostly I'm a stay at home girl.
This is perfect because it allows me a lot of CS
time. My man is in the army and is away often, so
while he was away last year, an online girlfriend
of mine sent me a copy of cs retail. When I first
tried it I hated it and couldn’t see on most maps.
Then a friend of mine came over and magically
turned up my monitor brightness; that opened up a
whole new world!
Once I could see on the maps
I was hooked. It was a fun escape from real life
at first. I never imagined it would turn into an
actual lifestyle. I was recruited into a clan only
after one month of playing. I had some skill but
it was mostly because I was a chick. I stayed with
that clan for over a year during which we met up
in WV, USA and competed for the CPL auto berth. We
placed second. and since then I have competed many
times, mostly locally. Oh and a note to valve,
since then I’ve bought 2 copies of half-life so
don’t hunt me down n kill me please.
;)
BgC|TatiaNa: Hey, I'm 17
years old and go to high school. I'm Russian and
have been living in Denmark for 5 years now. Right
now, I'm really trying to concentrate on my
studies. I spend a lot of time with my friends as
well as working in Blockbuster video :) So if you
want to see good movies, come to me :D. I’ve been
driving go-kart for 4 years, so I love nice cars
:) However, I stopped driving before the summer
vacation due to lack in time. Now I'm just looking
forward to get my driving licence.
My brother,
AzR|staLi, has been playing counter-strike for a
long time now, so when I saw him play, I wanted to
try too. The First time I tried to play cs on a
public server, I gave up in the start, got killed
all the time :P, but a couple of months later, I
tried to play again with some newbies, and then it
became fun :). My brother taught me some tactics
and told me to aim at the head, and suddenly I
started to play good
:)
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-BadgirlsClan or BGC for those
who don't know, is a female multigaming clan
spread right across the globe. Could each of you
tell me, what your position is in BGC as well as
the sort of day-to-day things you get up to within
the clan? (Organising / Wararranger / Tactics)
etc.
BgC|aNouC: Well, first
of all, I created this clan a long time ago,
having celebrated our 4 year anniversary in May
2002. I always have a lot to do for the team but I
love all them and I enjoy it. I try to manage the
Squad leaders and help them with their Squads. I
have to check new members, talk with the sponsors.
I also prepare members who would like to go to
some LANs, and supply them with all the details
they need to get into them. And of course, I’m the
Webmaster who everyday adds something new to our
homepage :D
BgC|Jade: Well,
aNouc recruited me off Sogamed.com a
few months ago. The US division had just been
started, so we didn’t have a full squad; not until
lately have we had enough girls to form a team. We
have yet to join any US leagues or compete but
soon we plan to get together and start taking over
the world :). I personally have competed a lot in
the past so I know, that, with the skill we have
in our division currently, all we need is a few
practices and we should be set to start competing.
I guess I would be considered the leader of our
division, only because of my experience, but in
BgC we don’t need titles to work as a team,
we have a lot of skilled players that are solid
and working towards being the best. This may seem
silly to some, but being a girl in the gaming
world that is made up of mostly males, we strive
to prove girls can own with the best of the boys.
;)
BgC|TatiaNa: Zelena is the
squad leader, she's in charge of tactics and
stuff, as far as organising is concerned, we all
help out with that, however we will be recruiting
a dedicated organiser soon :) Basically, everyone
has a share of everything; it’s kind of a
community in our division :)
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-From
your point of view, how well has the fairly small,
female gaming community been accepted into the
community as a whole, for instance, is there still
a lot of prejudice and abuse when
playing?
BgC|aNouC: I must
confess, even if it seems we have it easy as
women, it is hard to be a girl and be respected in
the gaming world. There has however, been a
massive increase in female gamers. For instance, 5
years ago, I was kind of alone as a Girl Gamer but
during the last year, a Boom has started, with
thousands of female clans popping up everywhere,
but unfortunately most are extremely unstable
being created and then folding in the same week
:(
BgC|TatiaNa: Heh, some people
don't even believe that I'm a girl, when I'm
playing (except on one of my Bad days, when I’m
not playing too well :P). A lot of people (boys)
think, that the girls are playing just to get
attention and maybe this applies for some girls,
but I love gaming and it’s definitely a part of my
life now. Boys are just going to have to accept
that the girls are taking over
:)
BgC|Jade: From what I have
experienced, you get one of 3 reactions when
you're playing as a female on a public server.
-One: they
refuse to believe you're female. I think that’s
due to the denial of being owned by girls in a
“boys” game.
-Two: they find out you're a
female and *flirt flirt flirt* which is fine, as
long as it doesn’t interfere with game play after
all a little flirting never hurt anyone ;).
-Three: would
be that they believe you're a female and then talk
down to you by saying we should have something
better to do with our time. They then assume we're
fat and ugly and spend the whole game talking
about us, none of this bothers me though, I’m
there to play the game.
I truly don’t
care what each individual thinks of me. If I did,
omg I would spend way too much time defending
myself and not enough time enjoying the game.
Partly why I joined BgC was to get equal respect
for example; in my old clan I would be put last on
the roster because they would automatically assume
one of the guys could pull off a better score
during a match, solely because I’m female. This is
total b.s. to be honest (pardon my French), I
don’t think guys are capable of treating chicks as
equals in the clan environment. Don’t get me
wrong, I’m not some super “chick power” type of
girl, I just don’t like being put last because of
my gender.
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- Seeing as we’re on this
subject, what’s the worst incident you have come
across yourself of this sexist attitude towards
female gamers?
BgC|aNouC:
Oh, well the biggest problems come when some
people think you are stupid because you haven't
answered their query fast enough, and then they
start to insult you. Also, I remember a few months
ago, when we were very active as Q3 TDM players
and there was some crazy dude who started to
follow us into all the servers, trying to kick us
or insult us, his reasoning?
“Girls Can’t
Play, Girls Must Cook!” which to be honest is just
pathetic, he was ALWAYS there, and in the end we
had to call his ISP, and sent some mails to the
police, I mean he even went so far as to flood our
ip's if we were on a passworded server
:)
BgC|TatiaNa: Well, people are
usually nice to me on mIRC. When I'm playing, I'm
concentrating on the game, not chatting, but it's
funny if people call me cheater and stuff. I just
take it as a complement
:)
BgC|Jade: Well, I would have
to say, it was when I was on a public I had never
played on before, the guys not only called me a
hacker, but once they found out I was a chick they
continued to call me a “fat ugly bitch who needs
to get a life.” I’m secure with who I am so this
didn’t bother me, but the fact that guys are so
quick to be rude and abusive is just plain
annoying.
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-Yeah *gulp* ok, well moving away from
that now, what can we hope to see from each
division in the near future, as far as LAN/online
tournaments are concerned? Perhaps an appearance
at CPL Oslo from one or more of the sections is on
the cards?
BgC|aNouC: Well I
think it’s 100% definite that some of our Bad
Girls will show up at CPL Oslo, for example me :)
We sent a team to LAN Arena 7, but to send one to
CPL is kind of suicide without having had much
training the last months, so at the moment, some
girls will show up as spectators.
As for future
LANs it depends, I hope that maybe some Female
tournaments will appear. I definitely think girls
feel more comfortable playing offline with other
girls as opposed to guys. BgC.cs.spain, just
received a nice offer from a Spanish company,
which will help the team, to go to LANs, by paying
for travel / entrance fee etc. I think this is
fantastic news for them, and I hope we have the
same luck with our other
squads.
BgC|Jade: Well, as I
said earlier, our division has just been started.
I hope for online/league competition in the near
future however I don’t know about how available
our girls are for travelling to competitions. I
plan to make it overseas for at least one
competition, who knows when that will be. I would
never have thought when I started that cs would
make me travel like it has. Competing has become a
big part of my life now so we'll see what the
future holds for the BgC.usa division and me
;)
BgC|TatiaNa: Right now, the
Scandinavian division is trying really hard to get
as active as possible after a long period of
inactivity. At the moment, we are still discussing
tactics and training as much as we can. I
definitely feel that it's important to have
skilled opponents because it's the only way you
yourself and your team will get better. As for
future LANs, I've never been to a CPL yet, so I am
really looking forward to Oslo-LAN, if not as a
player, then as a spectator, but I really hope to
be competing soon :)
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-On the subject
of tournaments; in your opinion, what has been the
biggest achievement for each of the squads /
players?
BgC|aNouC:
CPL
Cologne(pictures) we made a *last minute* team
and we finished 13th. It wasn’t a surprise, seeing
as we were nowhere near ready to play against big
clans like mTw etc.
At CPL Holland, succubus
and me played the Q3 1on1 tournament and she won
;) She is from the American team, and is widely
known as the best female 1on1 player.
At LAN
Arena 7, in Paris, we played for fun, where we
finished 3rd out of 5 female teams competing; no
matter the result, it was really fun, and made me
be more interested in CS :P
Lady Dana from our
Quake Squad, is also one of the best players in
Europe, and plays in the Q2 National Swiss
Team.
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-Who would you say, is the
best, all round player, in BgC.cs? And if you
could have any player in the world in your squad,
male or female who would it
be?
BgC|aNouC: I think it is
not about being the best, BgC mainly wants girls
who really want to play online, talk to other
girls, make friends, and be a part of the gaming
world. Of course we have many skilled girls in all
our squads, but some others are completely new,
and the nice thing is to see them improving fast
because of being in such close contact with the
more experienced players :)
.Sca .Usa and
.Spain are the squads which are a little more
active right now, and all of them have really
talented girls ;D
About favourite players, well
I like mTw|cracken’s playing style a lot, perhaps
because he is someone who I see more often online
and offline than anyone else, but in general the
whole mTw squad (ash, koj, hazz and giant) all
have what any TOP team needs ;) also, Brb, is
definitely my favourite player from .es he rocks
:) so maybe him too.
BgC|Jade:
All of our girls are awesome and to nominate one
for the best player would be insane. I feel skill
alone doesn’t stand for much, but when you get a
team of skilled players who make a killer team,
well that’s where it all matters. In my opinion, I
would have a|2.windowlicker as a part of our team.
This man is not only skilled; he wastes not one
bullet on a wall or box due to his accuracy, which
is simply amazing.
BgC|TatiaNa:
The best player in BgC.cs? Well, some play better
than others, but I don't know who is the actual
best and as Jade says, it would be crazy to
nominate one for the best player. If I could have
any player in the .sca squad? It would have to be
a skilled player with good aim, but most
importantly a nice personality because that’s what
counts, after all there’s nothing with out team
spirit :).
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-Are any of you friends
in real life? And, do your friends from college /
school / outside of cs, know about your gaming and
if they do what is the general opinion of
it?
BgC|aNouC: I'm maybe the
member who has met the most girls from our clan
and of course I have a nice friendship with all of
them, even those I haven’t met yet! I must say
though, although each meeting is a lot of fun, I
have had a lot of luck when finding members, as I
am sure not every Female gamer is as nice as those
in BgC. However saying that, none of the members
are “close” friends.
My close friends don’t
play any kind of game online :( but sometimes that
is better, so you can really disconnect from the
online stress.
What do they think about it?
Well, they respect it and most of the time when
they talk to other people and someone talks about
Quake or CS or The Internet, they always mention
me, so that cant be too bad.
BgC|jade: I haven’t had a
chance to meet up with any of the girls yet, but I
plan on attending as many LANs in as many
different places as possible. So we'll see what
the future holds.
My outside of cs friends
know about my addiction to the game. At first they
teased me about it, then a few of them got into it
themselves. I never blow off the chance to go out
or chill with my friends for cs, so, as long as I
keep that up there is never any trouble between
us.
BgC|TatiaNa: Well, I met a
girl from BgC.sca once, named GirlPower, but she
has quit the clan now. It was a nice evening in
Boomtown Internet cafe. I would like to meet all
the other girls too, and that's also the reason
why I'm looking forward to CPL Oslo. All my
friends know that I play a lot, the boys I know
joke about it, and can't take me seriously.
Whereas girls just can't understand me :).
Normally, I try not to talk about my gaming with
my “real-life” friends.
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-Ok, now
onto something completely unrelated, and personal,
but anyway, who’s the nicest guy you’ve met
online?
BgC|aNouC:
Well I
don’t know, there are a lot of assholes, but there
are also many nice guys who are into the scene :)
I don’t want to say names, soo… my ex-boyfriend is
the nicest for me.
BgC|Jade:
Wow, uhm... /me thinks, I'd have to say my man
[PacoM]Noble. What… did u actually expect me to
put some random I-net guy? Hehe
:p
BgC|TatiaNa: hah :D , I can't
answer that question because some people may get
hurt :) however forZe|ant1killer deserves a
mention :p.
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-Mmmk, before we wrap it
up, is there anything you'd like to say to the
scores of male readers drooling on their
keyboards, reading
this?
BgC|aNouC: Guys,
really... if you think we are taking over your
place... it’s no problem... we can share the
kitchen with you, so then we’ll have no more
fights Finally, Lots of hugs for my BadGirls, and
hi to the rest of the girls in the gaming
scene!!
BgC|Jade: We're here for
the game play, like most of you. So please try and
keep your hormones under wraps and we'll all get
along just fine ;) Props to all the boys out there
that can handle the fact that we're here to play
and we're not going anywhere. To those who think
we're out of our league by playing a mans game...
kiss it! It’s the 21st century now, get used to us
owning you cause that’s not going to change
anytime soon.
BgC|TatiaNa: What
should we do with all the boys eh? #badgirlsclan
:p
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-lol, k thanks girls, good luck
with anything you choose to do in the future
whether its inside or outside of the Gaming world
:)
BgC|aNouC: Thx Sty, ah,
also I want to add... the GoL guys own dancing in
a discothèque ;)))
BgC|Jade: np,
peace to all!
BgC|TatiaNa: np
& thx alot :D cyaa.
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You can
find the BadGirls
at:
-Quakenet: #BadGirlsClan ( .sca/.es
(aNouc/TatiaNa))
-Gamesnet: #BadGirls (
.usa squad (jade))
-Website:
http://www.badgirlsclan.com/
[
Styla
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