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The 23-year-old Chinese VKLiooon Xiaomeng “VKLiooon” Li is a novelty at Blizzcon. For the first time a woman gets the prestigious eSports title in the trading card game “Hearthstone”.

Although more and more women are interested in eSports, the scene is still dominated by men. With her victory at the “Hearthstone” World Championships at Blizzcon, Xiaomeng “VKLiooon” Li now encourages all young girls to live out their dream just as she did herself.

It was a more than impressive performance that the Chinese girl delivered at the Blizzcon this weekend. In the final, she gave her opponent “bloody face” no chance at all and won the Best-of-Five series 3:0 and won not only the world championship title but also a prize money of 200’000 dollars.



Until this weekend, “VKLiooon” was probably a blank page even for most fans. Although she has already played her opponents in the ground at Gold Open Tianjin, she is still rarely seen on the big stage.

Chance seized by the shock

In an interview with Blizzard in August after qualifying, she said she now had her first chance to make a name for herself worldwide as a representative of China. That would be the best way to show it to everyone who doubted her just because she’s a girl. She definitely did.

Like so many other girls, she had to keep hearing that she had no business being here. For all these critics she had the right message in her winner interview: “To all the girls out there who dream of a career in eSports: Don’t let them talk you out of it. If you believe in yourself, follow your dreams and don’t worry about your gender!

A CLEAN SWEEP!! VKLIOOON HAS WON THE HEARTHSTONE GLOBAL FINALS!!! pic.twitter.com/3PwNX0qcBq — Hearthstone Esports (@HSesports) November 2, 2019



VKLiooon comes from a small town in the northwest of China. Her parents divorced when she was 9. After that she lived with her mother, a teacher. She studies political science and law in China. At university, she fell in love with “Hearthstone”.

Most of the time she plays against her friend, who is also a professional.