frag /frag/ n. & v. · n. 1 number of kills. 2 a fragmentation grenade. · v. 1 to eliminate other players in multiplayer shooters (fragging).

rag·doll physics /ragdol fiziks/ n. 1 a program allowing videogame characters to react with realistic body and skeletal physics.

frag·doll /fragdol/ n. 1 a gamer girl with the skills to dominate in multiplayer shooters. 2 an unabashedly geeky female who is proud to love games and geek culture.

The Frag Dolls are a team of professional female gamers recruited by Ubisoft to promote their video games and represent the presence of women in the game industry. These gamer girls play and promote games at industry and game community events, compete in tournaments, and participate daily in online gamer geek activities. Started in 2004 by an open call for gamer girls with competitive gaming skills, the Frag Dolls immediately rocketed to the spotlight after winning the Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow tournament in a shut-out at their debut tournament appearance.

By the time of their fifth anniversary in 2009, the Frag Dolls had competed in numerous tournaments including the 2004 Electronic Gaming Championship in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, 2006 World Series of Video Games in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Winter CPL 2006 in Rainbow Six Vegas and Guitar Hero 2, the Major League Gaming circuits from 2005-2008 in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Rainbow Six Vegas, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Halo 3, and numerous online tournaments. The team’s tournament accolades include first place finishes at Winter CPL 2006 in Rainbow Six Vegas, at multiple years of the Penny Arcade Expo in Tom Clancy titles, a 9th place finish out of 116 teams in the Penny Arcade Expo Halo 3 tournament in 2008, and 11th place overall in the Major League Gaming 2007 season in Rainbow Six Vegas making them the first all-female team to make Semi-Professional status in Major League Gaming history.

The Frag Dolls have appeared in major gaming publications like Electronic Gaming Monthly, PC World, Official Xbox Magazine, and PCXL. Noteworthy mainstream press coverage includes mentions in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Complex Magazine, Marie Claire, The New York Times, and Fast Company. They have also made appearances on multiple television shows for G4 TV and Spike TV, and have been featured on CNN, FOX News, NBC11, and The Today Show.

The Frag Dolls are known not only for being skilled gamers in multiple games, but for their advocacy of female gamers. The Frag Dolls have spoken on panels at the Women’s Game Conference, Women in Games International, Penny Arcade Expo, Game Developers Conference, and the Austin Game Developers Conference. They have been vocal about their support of female gamers and game developers, and have grown an online community around the interests shared of a diverse segment of the gaming population. The team has cited their social networking outreach on Twitter, facebook, and myspace as part of a larger effort to raise awareness about video games as a legitimate pastime and career for women. This is in response to the continuing perpetuation of video games as a male-dominated pursuit.

The Frag Dolls can be found online or offline playing a variety of videogames in every genre, from RPGs and point-and-click PC adventures to FPS on the Xbox 360 and PC. Each week they write blogs about events, news in the industry, and their experience as gamers. You can find them online during regularly scheduled times, or talk with them in their community forums or their social networking pages on facebook, myspace, and Twitter.