In 2014, Noah Whinston was struggling to see why he should support any specific esports team. He felt as though each was only branding itself on how good their players were, and, as he puts it, “no team wins forever.”
In the same year, Sabrina Wong attended her first esports event: MLG Anaheim. Thousands of fans watched hundreds of professionals face off in a variety of games, from Smash to Starcraft. “I think throughout the weekend I only saw four women,” she tells me. “I really enjoyed it, but I just didn’t understand why there wasn’t more diversity.”
A year later, Whinston founded the organisation Immortals, where Wong is now the community outreach coordinator. They’re probably best known for their Overwatch League team, the Los Angeles Valiant, who have spent this year setting themselves apart from the all-too-often uninclusive esports community with initiatives like their “Be Valiant” series.
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