Recent content by melkior

THIS STILL does not have anything to do with Finland other than the qualifier is played here. you can as well say good job Canada,France,Sweden and the list goes on. this is why I'm pissed off. somebody screwed up the context early on. And because the internet news sources don't bother to...

Its a good thing they managed to solve the issue, but this doesn't really change the fact that half of the world now thinks that Finland is a sexist place when it comes to gaming. the original story which was copy pasted around the net was poorly captioned in over half of the news outlets...

Due the successful lobby of Finnish e-sports Federation and Assembly organizers with other nordic and european e-sports federations, the International e-Sports federation has withdrawn the Gender rule. http://www.assembly.org/summer14/news/iesf-rule-change

And again.... Its the South-Korean insisting on the gender rule. We Finns are actually lobbying against the thing.

Yeah this bit of news has gone spreading all over the internet as "Finland bans female gamers".. and as a finn I am a bit upset about the low standard of publishing regarding this. most of the articles depict Finland's qualifier as being the one discriminating against gender when its all about...