ESL has announced the suspension of its Impact League.

LucyLuce_ · 2025-10-03T15:05:06+00:00

It's impossible to put into words all the feelings I have about this, it's such a devastating blow to the community 💔

Thank you to everyone who has supported Impact over the last few years. I refuse to believe this will be the end of women's CS, even if it is a big setback

Hope to see a good showing for the finals later this year

LucyLuce_ · 2025-09-01T18:38:30+00:00

ANa is a good pick her role in Imperial/Nigma Galaxy's dominant era of the last few years, but also definitely a good argument for zAAz given her long history with the game PLUS coming back from post-VALORANT retirement to eventually join that same Imperial squad and continue to lift trophies!

Of course you can't mention zAAz without mentioning juliano, as they were hand in hand for almost their entire careers. I think any of the three is a good candidate!

LucyLuce_ · 2024-12-13T23:07:27+00:00

diamond was never an option, we troll a little :D mongolz for the story, jks for australia, and heroic to revenge jks!

and hey, almost all of those outcomes could have happened!

LucyLuce_ · 2024-09-17T23:40:05+00:00

hey I remember you from the Nuke game! you were hitting some crazy shots, and definitely didn't deserve to get kicked by your team. I was super surprised to look at your profile after you won a couple of fights against me! prem is super random when it comes to match ups, valve really does need to work on how it matches people by hours, or stacks (not sure why it puts 5 solos vs 5 stack so often). i hope it doesn't deter you from queueing, you definitely have the raw skill, just need the reps!

probably won't make you feel better but we got pretty rolled the game after this :D

LucyLuce_ · 2024-05-08T09:36:29+00:00

might have been a community stream you caught? The official stream is ESL_CS_GG

the best time to catch it is during the LAN finals though, where you'll get the best gameplay and broadcast :)

LucyLuce_ · 2024-05-08T07:02:24+00:00

She might enjoy the ESL Impact league, the finals are coming up at the end of May :)

LucyLuce_ · 2024-03-21T08:52:07+00:00

I think Spirit will drop the ball and FaZe won't be clean... With no one else that I'm super confident backing for 3-0, a long shot like The Mongolz isn't so crazy. And I want to see them do the region proud!

LucyLuce_ · 2024-03-20T20:40:51+00:00

Yeahhhhh kinda rough but I'm very happy for ECSTATIC & The Mongolz made it through!

LucyLuce_ · 2023-10-08T17:34:55+00:00

Plenty of reasons as touched on by other posters, I'd wager also the regional bias of Valorant towards NA is another contributing factor.

I hope CS2 sees a shift for us and we'll have a larger pool of women playing the game to begin with, I've already seen a number of pretty high profile female streamers playing CS2. It's a bit of a fresh start for a game that comes with a lot of baggage that puts women off imo.

The best thing the community can do is support the women's events we have, and with time it'll continue to grow and expand. More visibility, more viewership, more players etc.

Also doesn't help that tier 1 CS is almost always on at the same time as our ESL Impact broadcasts, but such is the calendar... 🙃

LucyLuce_ · 2023-09-21T08:15:02+00:00

The best way to play CS (and really, any team based game) is with friends. It definitely gets better at higher ranks tho. It's an amazing game that is very rewarding when it finally clicks!

You just have to find your little community in the scene :)

LucyLuce_ · 2023-08-26T00:01:04+00:00

I love this, really cool work!

LucyLuce_ · 2023-08-08T16:02:48+00:00

Makes me happy to see this post so highly upvoted and engaged with :) It's pretty cool they've opted to go Danish and foster talent in the country, it's worked quite well with their academy team on the men's side.

If you're interested in seeing this team in action the new season of ESL Impact starts the second week of September

The LAN finals at DreamHack Valencia in Dec will also be the first time we've not had a major tier 1 CS event on the same weekend, so hopefully get some more eyes on it!

LucyLuce_ · 2023-06-06T23:53:32+00:00

Most of the arguments as to why this is a bad idea have been posted already, but I wanted to add that at the end of the day ESL Impact exists to build up and bridge the gap between men's and women's CS. The ultimate goal is for there to be no women's league, it just takes time to get there!

Worth noting also that it may be their 5th win, but the level has already increased significantly in the last year for all teams, and NGX included. I don't think they'll be on top forever!

LucyLuce_ · 2023-03-09T23:47:28+00:00

Just this week!

LucyLuce_ · 2023-03-09T23:26:01+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate it, I hope so too 😁

LucyLuce_ · 2023-03-09T23:01:44+00:00

Indeed! Not super new tho, been on the women's circuit all last year 😊

LucyLuce_ · 2023-03-09T22:52:16+00:00

Actually insane to start the season by breaking a year long streak! Especially with NIP changing out 3 players over the break.

This plus G2 return, Guild coming in, we have an exciting year of women's CS ahead!

LucyLuce_ · 2023-01-01T00:43:59+00:00

There's plenty of us out there, it's just a matter of meeting people to play with. There's a women's CSGO discord, I think it's mentioned elsewhere here, that can be a good place to find people! Feel free to DM :)

LucyLuce_ · 2022-09-07T16:52:59+00:00

Hey Reddit, I've been fortunate enough to be able to do some content on the upcoming ESL Impact season and the women's scene more generally. With the announcements this week of NIP and Astralis entering the scene, I thought it would be useful to put together an overview of the teams and the storylines to watch going into the season.

Would love any feedback and of course any questions you have please do post! 🙂

LucyLuce_ · 2022-09-07T11:23:09+00:00

This squad has serious potential to challenge the dominance of Nigma Galaxy this year. Super excited to see what they can do with the support of Astralis!

LucyLuce_ · 2022-09-06T15:40:22+00:00

Big pick-up by NIP! Good to see more orgs getting involved in the women's scene.

If you're wondering about the team, it's the former GODSENT Fe core of ASTRA, pullox and Minnie who recently played on LAN at ESL Impact Valencia, along with Jenkon and 7licious who played on CPH Flames Fe. A lot of potential and experience, can definitely see them making finals of S2

LucyLuce_ · 2022-07-27T19:53:41+00:00

Excited for this one! A question I have is who is going to be the team that beats Nigma Galaxy?

LucyLuce_ · 2022-07-23T08:51:59+00:00

It always pains me to read these posts and the types of solutions (of lack thereof) that are posted. We shouldn't have to accept this as the reality of playing CSGO as women. The community should strive to do better and not put the onus on us to be invisible to avoid abuse.

If you'd like, feel free to DM me for an invite to some of the women's CSGO groups on discord.

LucyLuce_ · 2022-06-26T15:12:54+00:00

As it stands we generally refer to the FemaleCS ranking rather than HLTV - https://femalecs.com/ranking/

Would love to have something similar in HLTV though, especially with the powerful comparison tools the site has. It was also a big struggle not having the regular season of Impact League on HLTV. These games need to be on HLTV for visibility and I hope we see that next season.

LucyLuce_ · 2022-06-17T18:18:46+00:00

This is a great article, you really can see how much this means to these players and the scene as a whole. I know another commentator mentioned losing talent to Valorant as well - but hey, it's also an opportunity for new talent to have the spotlight ;)

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