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"the segregation was in accordance with IeSF tournament regulations and was to 'avoid possible conflicts (e.g. a female player eliminating a male player during
by samirmenon 12y ago
"the segregation was in accordance with IeSF tournament regulations and was to 'avoid possible conflicts (e.g. a female player eliminating a male player during RO8 [round of eight]) among other things.'"
What makes that a 'possible conflict'?
- AndrewDucker 12y agoThe previous IeSF regulations had separate male and female tournaments, and there wasn't a female one for Hearthstone, so allowing a women to knock a man out when she couldn't go forward herself made no sense. Fixing it by allowing women to go forward was what made the most sense.
- makmanalp 12y agoHmm, and do you know what was the reasoning behind the original rule that said women couldn't go forward?
- sampo 12y agoWell, before IeSF changed their rules yesterday (under massive social media feedback + comments from Blizzard), there was no world championship for women in Hearthstone; it was male-only. So even if the local organizers in Finland would have rebelled (which they did not), and allowed women to participate in the national event (which would have been against the IeSF rules), they probably could not have sent the national champion – in case she was female – to the international championship games. So the local organizers decided to follow the IeSF rules and not allow female participants. But something like this stands out in Europe, so there was something of a media storm, and everything turned out nicely: IeSF decided to update their rules.
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