Right - I was being sarcastic as that is my very point. :)

Look, we can go around in circles all day but when it comes down to the changes in the tournament's format, my position is that they were inherently sexist and not truly in the best interests of men or women. To get back to the heart of the argument, what IeSF should have done was one of the following:

Says someone who apparently believes the change in the tournament's format was a step towards equality while turning a blind eye toward the sexism of having a women's only competition.

So, you've disproven my point by digging through the internet to find two outlying examples to support your idea that men and women have no qualitative, physical differences at a competitive level? (I mean, what other point could you be trying to make?)

Feel lucky you got one. You took my comment completely out of context — because you didn't bother to read the discussion and decided to blindly jump in (no doubt, to score bonus pts with the womyn). Furthermore, you seem to believe feminism and its blind adherents are above criticism....and I'm the one who needs to…

Then post the conclusive academic evidence.

But once again, this is beside the point: we're still not talking about "average" people competing here. You actually believe the world's highest level male athletes have comparable hand-eye coordination and reaction rates as its highest female athletes?

Ok, I get it. Womyn are actually physically superior to men. You win!

1.) You did a great job of taking my comment about tennis completely out of context. Please go back a re-read the history of the discussion before you jump to the conclusion that I was making a direct comparison between competitive videogaming and tennis.

I won't get into an argument about whether women can go toe to toe with men when it comes to turn-based games of strategy. An interesting study would be to examine the performance of men and women in the competitive game of GO.

Great. Here comes the White Knight brigade.

Oh, I'll even go one step further: when it comes to sporting events, men not only surpass women through raw physicality but they're often playing a higher level of metagame as well. I don't find anything about this common-sense observation sexist or surprising. Look up every measurable Olympic event EVER and compare…

Not sure if sarcasm....

At a professional level, it's undeniable that men have much faster reflexes and hand to eye coordination — a factor that figures heavily into the realm of competitive video gaming.

Nah, but how about anecdote of what happens when you try to live in a fantasy land that ignores those differences:

And in regards to competitive sporting events — your reply tells me you don't watch many or understand the elementary differences between how the male and female bodies actually function.

The downside is that the decision itself lacks any sense of integrity and runs completely counter to the reason they were pushed to make one in the first place: to create a conclusive format that countered allegations of sexism.

So, because of this dynamic, male only events should not exist? I don't understand your logic.

So, I take it you feel that any competitive events that "discriminate" based on gender is "ass-backwards"? Should we ignore the fact that, at a professional level, there is a clear difference between the level of competitive play between men and women, not just in sporting events but reaction rates (which figure…

Except this format is by its very definition not an attempt to give men and womyn equal chances to compete with and against each other. If that were the case, they would have had 3 formats:

Their intention may have been "good" but they were severely misguided. They've essentially responded to criticism of sexism by making their event even more inherently sexist.