GIRLGAMER Esports Festival Finals coming to Dubai

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See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos  Dubai will host the World Finals of the third annual GIRLGAMER Esports Festival – the world’s most recognised female-focused esports competition – this December 2019.  Meydan One, a pioneering, next-generation lifestyle and retail destination currently taking shape in Dubai, today announced at a press conference held at Meydan Hotel that it will be bringing the thrilling final stages of the 2019 edition of the annual event to the city. The event will run from December 12 to 14 at Meydan Grandstand. #Esports #GirlGamer #Competition

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00:00The Girl Gamer eSports Festival will be holding the World Finals of the event in Dubai at

00:06Maidan 1 this December.

00:08It's important to promote all the gender balance that is happening in the region, we

00:12see so many powerful women, later in the elections it's also going to be raised to 50% of women

00:18representation in the parliament, so it's incredible and we believe that this needs

00:22to be put out there.

00:23Girl Gamer eSports strives to provide a comfortable and safe space for women to grow their gaming

00:28skills and have fun doing it.

00:29We think that there's a lot of barriers that women need to go over in order to even start

00:35competing at the same level and this involves online discrimination, online bullying, so

00:42they have to overcome all these barriers just to start playing at a competitive level and

00:47then sometimes even when they are very competitive and master level on their game, they're still

00:52not admitted into one of these professional teams because they're mostly male dominated

00:57teams right now and the team owners are concerned of inserting a girl into an environment full

01:03of other guys, for other guys, that will create instability in the team's communication and

01:07all of that, so basically even if they play really well they are still discriminated solely

01:11based on their gender.

01:13Paul Roy, CEO of local gaming organization Galaxy Race eSports, is optimistic that the

01:18talent pool in this region will greatly benefit from this event.

01:21Women account for about a third of all gamers globally and they account for about 40% of

01:25all eSports viewing, but in terms of professional eSports representation, less than 0.1%.

01:31They had a Fortnite tournament in the US and in fact there's an article that came out that

01:36not one of the top 100 players was a woman, not because, and the thing is eSports is probably

01:41the only sport on the planet where women have, I mean men don't have any distinctive advantage

01:47over a woman, there's no physical advantage, no mental advantage, so you'll find a lot

01:53of cases when women actually go out and beat the men.

01:56So what they've done very well is to give a spotlight on the platform to women itself

02:00and there will come a point when you'll start seeing more and more all-inclusive teams and

02:05women competing against men.

02:06It's already started, there are a few professional organizations in the US that have started

02:09to bring in female players onto their roster, it'll change, it'll change very quickly.

02:14The industry is so young itself so it's going to take a little bit of time, but it's happening.

02:18Attracting the Mega Gaming event is part of Government of Dubai Media Office's strategy

02:22to drive the development of the industry in the region.

02:24Logan Fish for Golf News.

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