This is gonna get ugly quick... so a Thought Experiment for you...

Let's assume two things first: That everybody is human, and humans are inherently biased against various things. It's practically impossible to remove all bias of gender because it is impossible to be naturally male and naturally female in the same lifetime*. That out of the way, here's the experiment:

Make a eSports team composed randomly of male and female members, give them androgynous aliases and seclude them from contact with other players outside of matches and scrims (no pugs or pubs!). Since you cannot determine gender by the usual methods of visual/audio confirmation, you only have their gameplay to go off of. Would you, after observing this team for a full season, be able to correctly determine the gender of each player?

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I like this one the best: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_republic

I tend to favor Hildreth here, each case should be brought up individually as to whether a subdivision of a country should play or not and what specifically makes their case worthy of inclusion.

Though admittedly a Team Texas might be a bit OP...

Heh, that's nothing... I've worked outside in 38°C the past two weeks. You get used to it with proper hydration.

Too much time playing Sully methinks...

In all seriousness, pretty much governments in that part of the world all have some corruption in them, more so than in other countries. Doesn't surprise me a whole lot that its Brazil's turn for a mess.

In the meantime, when we rolling out to fetch our favorite sniper?

Who are they cutting?

Or one bored Engie with a Level 3 tele.

Cookin' up a storm no doubt.

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#RealTalk

Oh, if only you knew...

Talk about long term investment for dinner...

They'll think of something...

Could be worse, could be the Korean border...

It does come across as something more akin to changing the rules to "spice up the show", when there's structurally nothing wrong with the current format. Most of the "change" people want is currently right now the minute gains, the stuff you work on to make your pushes that much more efficient.

Sixes as it stands is the most refined and effective format in Competitive FPS today, it is the Formula One of Shooters. Please oh please don't put a smaller engine in the game we love for the sake of those not watching...