CSGO star Juliano reveals why women\u2019s CS is so far behind men\u2019s Following some community backlash regarding the Besiktas Esports\u2019 womens CSGO roster\u2019s performance at the DreamHack Rotterdam event, team captain and CSGO veteran Julia \u2018juliano\u2019 Kiran took to Twitter to lay out all the reasons why the gap exists between the women\u2019s scene and the men\u2019s scene. Make no mistake about it, the women\u2019s CSGO scene is highly competitive. Teams like Besiktas, CLG Red, the Copenhagen Flames and Dignitas are all consistently battling each other for the top spots at women\u2019s events. Most recently, Besiktas defeated CLG Red at the DreamHack Valencia Showdown, taking home $50,000 and earning a spot at the DreamHack Open Rotterdom tournament. Unfortunately at Rotterdam, the womens\u2019 performance was not nearly as competitive, as Besiktas dropped all three of their maps in one-sided affairs to AVANGAR and Hard Legion Esports. As is tradition, people took to places like reddit and HLTV to criticize and crack jokes at the women\u2019s CSGO scene, so Besiktas\u2019 captain Juliano took to Twitter to weigh in on why there\u2019s still a gap between scenes. She writes, \u201cIt is scientifically proven that men\u2019s brain have a better hand-eye coordination and faster decision making so idk why people keep using this \u2018it\u2019s not physical\u2019 excuse all the time.\u201d It is scientifically proven that mens brain have a better hand-eye coordination and faster decision making so idk why people keep using this \u201cit\u2019s not physical\u201d excuse all the time. It\u2019s an uphill for us aswell besides being so few trying. Men should support women much more. \u2014 juliano (@juliakiran) October 22, 2019 Much like how men and women don\u2019t play in the same leagues in traditional sport, due to differences in size and speed and body type, Juliano argues that men and women\u2019s brains are wired differently, and that the men\u2019s brain is more suited to excelling at a game like Counter-Strike. Numerous studies do in fact back up this claim. According to Columbia University\u2019s \u201cA Brain Divided\u201d, men are better when it comes to hand-eye and spatial coordination, as well as a sense of direction and precise muscle movement. This is not to say that there aren\u2019t women who can compete at the same high level as men, and this is a point that Juliano argues as well. Even the women who compete at the highest pro level aren\u2019t invited to compete alongside men in the top scene, and includes herself in that group. Yeah like i said it doesnt go for everyone and i do think that some of us top female players are above that line, but we are just in need to get the respect when playing. I\u2019ve had many that said to me its like playing with any guy, but still never got asked to join a mixed team. \u2014 juliano (@juliakiran) October 23, 2019 Juliano says she\u2019s never been asked to join a mixed team, and even when the opportunity to play with men arose, she was told that there were pro and semi-pro players who didn\u2019t want to play alongside women. Tbh, i have been in this scene for a long time and even at my peek when i could compete with men, i was told from some pro\/semi-pro that some guys in a team didnt want to play with a girl. And this is how it was, believe it or not. Ive always said that the key is mixed teams. \u2014 juliano (@juliakiran) October 23, 2019 Juliano says another problem is that this lack of respect extends past pro players into the community as well, and that female players are hit with a double-edged sword. They\u2019re challenged to compete against men to prove that they are good enough, and then immediately hit with trash talk when they fail. Whether the solution is a more expanded women\u2019s scene, or the implementation of more mixed teams in CSGO, the women of CSGO still have a long way to go to gain the respect they deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CSGO star Juliano reveals why women\u2019s CS is so far behind men\u2019s Following some community backlash regarding the Besiktas Esports\u2019 womens CSGO roster\u2019s performance at the DreamHack Rotterdam event, team captain and CSGO veteran Julia \u2018juliano\u2019 Kiran took to Twitter to lay out all the reasons why the gap exists between the women\u2019s scene and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}