While the esports business has grown at an incredible pace over the past 20 years, its female sector seemed to be under the radar for a long time. However, with the rise of numerous talented gamer girls around the globe in recent years, this trend will definitely end in the near future. In this article, we will focus on esports players who have already put a lot of effort into popularizing female competitive gaming. And these girls will surely surprise you with their achievements in 2024.
Sasha Hostyn (Scarlett)
This Canadian esports player first rose to fame in StarCraft II. She has been ranked as the best female player in the world by multiple organizations and is currently one of the top players in the game.
She began playing StarCraft II in 2010, and her first win at a major tournament, Electronic Sports World Cup 2011, came in 2012. She would go on to win several other tournaments that year as well. In 2013, the gamer won another major tournament – the North American Star League Season 3 Championship. And after that, she went on to win the StarCraft II World Championship Series Canada Nationals later that same year.
Although the girl has not won any major tournaments since 2015, she constantly pleases her fans with excellent results at all kinds of gaming events.
Katherine Gunn (Mystik)
Katherine is a professional esports player, who is best known for her time spent playing League of Legends. She has been playing since 2012 and has won over $1 million in prize money during her career.
Gunn began playing video games when she was young and developed an interest in League of Legends when it launched in 2009. Her first experience with the game was watching her brother play; she later tried it herself and loved it. The girl played with friends at first before she started competing professionally as Mystik (her gamer name) in 2012.
In 2018, Gunn was ranked as one of the top 100 female esports players worldwide by esports journalist Rod Breslau on Twitter.
Alison Qual (Nina)
Alison Qual is perhaps one of the most famous esports players in the world. She was born and raised in Canada and started playing video games at a young age. Alison grew up playing games like Super Mario 64, Sonic Adventure, and Mario Kart 64. By the time she was 12 years old, she had already won her first championship in an online gaming tournament.
She went on to attend university, where she studied computer science and mathematics. During her time at university, Alison Qual continued to play video games for fun as well as professionally. And after a while, she began to stream her gameplay live on Twitch.tv. In 2017, she joined Team Dignitas as its new Overwatch player for that year’s Overwatch Contenders Season 2: North America Division. Since then, Alison Qual has become one of the most recognizable names in the world of esports, and we’re sure that we’ll be hearing more from her very soon.
