There has been a lot of attention given to the Miss World Series of Video Games beauty pageant lately.  The press coverage about our alleged “protest” refers to the entire Frag Doll team and builds on the sensation of conflict.  The reality of what happened is rather different, so I’d like to clarify what the Frag Dolls collectively think about Miss WSVG. 

Valkyrie’s original blog, the match that struck this fire, never claimed to represent the opinions of the whole Frag Doll team.  She framed it as a personal rant in which she said she was offended, suspected other girl gamers would be as well, and thus called for a boycott.  This was all genuinely hers, we love her for being such a firecracker, and our blogs have always been a favorite place to express our quirky selves.  In this case we didn’t anticipate that the impassioned voice of one Frag Doll would be taken as the official stance of the entire team.  Lesson learned. 

If you were to poll the other six Frag Dolls and average our opinions together you would find that we can all agree on a few basic points:

• What is a beauty pageant doing at a gaming event?
• It would be misleading to give the title of a professional gaming circuit (“Miss World Series of Video Games”) to a girl who doesn’t play games.

The call for a boycott was not meant to be a public statement from the entire team.  Valkyrie was fully justified in feeling the way she did and we support her right to talk about it (she’s entitled to her passionate opinion, afterall), but it should be recognized that we never stated this was our official stance.

For anyone who has wondered if this has affected our relationship with the World Series of Video Games, it hasn’t.  We all still get along wonderfully.  We been in contact with the WSVG organizers through the course of these events and they even helped us conduct the Mr. WSVG contest.  Furthermore, the two contests were both fun.  A real gamer girl won the Miss WSVG contest, which made us very happy, and we got to hold a Zoolander style walk-off for the Mr. WSVG contest (real gamers won that, too.) We <3 the WSVG and we can hardly contain our excitement for next week

This event has provided good grounds for discussion about the representation of women at game-related events and we will always be happy to engage in any debates on the topic.  We just want to see the spotlight going to girls who stand out on the virtual battlefield.