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After creation of the Overwatch League, it came to light that no female players – even the world’s best, ‘Geguri’ – had been drafted to a team. Team managers cited their reasonings from difficulty with co-ed housing to the desire to not want the player to feel like a PR stunt. In an interview with Kotaku magazine in early 2018, Houston Outlaws player Jacob “JAKE” Lyon said “For that even to be the perception, it’d be so terrible to be her. People would always be doubting, always be judging. So it has to be the right person, the right player, and those things have to come together at the right moment — which makes it especially hard for women in the scene right now.” An argument was made that Overwatch, a game praised for the diversity of its characters and inclusiveness of its fanbase, should have a separate Women’s League. Blizzard later stated that this was not a just solution, and that they would explore avenues of diversifying their team rosters in the future.