Dynasty.fe is a Europe-based female team consisting of Russian players vilga and Ant1ka, Swedish players zAAz and juliano as well as Danish player mimi and is regularly called the best female CS team. Just recently they took part in an international low-tier tournament called Cross Border Esport 2017, a non-female-only tournament. During this tournament, they lost thrice, once in a Best-Of-1 and once in a Best-Of-3 2-0 against a Danish pug/mix team called “Victor Pedersen”.

Normally people wouldn’t care about a female team losing to a lower-tier male team because female teams are regarded as low skilled compared to their male counterparts, but this result gained attention because juliano and zAAz like to fight against these kinds of prejudices publicly. Interestingly enough, according to multiple twitter sources, the team chose not to participate in the B-Tournament after not qualifying for the Main-Tournament, which would give them a chance to practice against other male teams who would be higher in skill than themselves.

Dynasty.fe deciding not to play the B tournament when not qualifying for the main tournament? 😐 — Casper Møller (@caspercadiaN) 9. September 2017

Even more questionable was the decision of two of the five team members to go home even before the other three were awake. According to the same tweet and not disputed by juliano, even though she answered to said tweet, juliano and zAAz were the two members that left.

This caused an uproar in the CS community, as this comes off as double-faced because female teams like to talk about equality and how they’re often not granted a chance – which may be right in some aspect that I can not think of right now – but just passed on a good opportunity to practice.

According to juliano and mimi, there was a rather big disagreement in the team about whether or not they should play the B-Tournament – keep in mind that juliano has not yet disputed that they left before the rest of the team were aware of their intentions.

To me, this just points to the true “problem” of the female CS scene: No unifying goal. Some seem to be burned out already, without even scratching the surface of what should be possible for them and some seem to want to take every chance they can get. I do not know if there is a solution to this, but leaving without more than half of the team knowing is a big, big no-no.