Interview with CLG Red CAth: "I think female tournaments encourage more females to join the scene."

CLG Red CAth of their CSGO squad visited the NA LCS with her team to support their League of Legends counterparts. Roscoe caught up with her to talk her recent play at IEM Katowice, how much she really knows about League of Legends and the separation of male and female CSGO leagues.

You guys are here all supporting the CLG squad in the NA LCS games. What was the reason you guys came out to support them?

CAth: We played in a tournament last week in Poland, and they watched our semifinals and the finals and it lasted like 10 hours, and they were all in the crowd supporting us, so we thought we would come here for the weekend to support them.

 

You guys, yourself too, all went to Poland for IEM. You guys played against Team Karma, your rivals, and it was exhausting. What was that like?

CAth: We played a best of three, the first map went into triple overtime and we ended up losing it. Then we won the second map, and then we won overtime again in the third map. So I think the semifinals lasted somewhat around 5 hours, it was really, really draining.

 

I mean as Dignitas, you were here yesterday, we know all about those long games. But then you guys ended up getting second, that’s respectable, that’s really good. From your perspective, how much do you know about League of Legends?

CAth: Ok, the only thing I know, I don’t know any of the characters but I understand a bit about how the game works, and the dragons. Very minimal, my boyfriend watches it all the time, so when he watches it I join in sometimes, but it’s very minimal knowledge.

 

Yeah and I mean when you’re a pro from another game, you can kinda piece together different things from other games.

CAth: Yeah I ask a lot of questions to my teammates, my teammate Christine used to play a lot, so I ask a lot of questions to her like “Ok what are they doing, what happened, people are cheering, I don’t even understand what’s going on!”

 

What do you guys have up next? Because League of Legends is a little different in terms of it has regular matches, but you guys are a lot more LAN based, big tournament based right?

CAth: We have three big female tournaments throughout the year. One was last year in Poland, the next one is in two weeks in Copenhagen, so that’s the big thing for us regarding female tournaments. But throughout the year we play online leagues against males all the time, like we have two matches a week like right now we’re competing on an online tournament as well.

 

I actually wanted to touch on the difference between male and female CS:GO, so you guys play online together?

CAth: Well right now we’re at the house playing together, but online we play against males all the time to practice because there’s like one or two female teams in America so we can’t really have decent practice against them, so we practice mostly against males and yeah, it’s good practice.

 

What do you think, like should it be separated, do you think that there’s a reason that you guys play separated or?

CAth: I think female tournaments allow females to encourage more females to join in on the scene, and hopefully it will encourage newcomer females to be interested in the game and wanting to be professional as well. I think splitting up the tournaments is very good for the scene because it brings a lot more females into the scene. Yeah once there’s as many females playing Counter Strike as there is males, then we can talk about a mix and more mixed teams and all that jazz.

 

Good luck to you guys in Copenhagen, do you have any last shoutouts or any last words you want to say?

CAth: Yeah shoutouts to our sponsors, Intel, Razer, G2A, Twitch and iBUYPOWER. Thanks! And thank you!

 

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