If you're not into eSports or gaming at all, this piece of news might have just flown over your head.

But to the local eSports world, it's another accolade to the list.

This is thanks to an all-female team no less, so trash your old-fashioned notion that only men can compete in such a field.

The all-female team is known as Asterisk, and in this particular matchup included the following members: team captain Tasha Chew, team strategist Sabrina Ang, Meryl Oh, Dinah Marinah, Nurlelawati Hussain, and team manager Hanzel Chua.

They clinched 2nd place in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Asia Pacific (APAC) finals in Qingdao last week, walking away with US$4,000.

This isn't any insignificant competition as well. The APAC leg is under the WESG (World Electronic Sports Games) which is hosted by Alisports (which is, in turn, obviously, owned by online shopping giant Alibaba).

Singapore sent five teams to compete in four games: DotA 2, Hearthstone, Starcraft 2 and CS:GO, but only the two teams competing in CS:GO, including Asterisk will be in the world finals, which takes place in Haikou, Hainan in March.

This time, Asterisk will compete with other teams with members hailing from countries such as China, Russia, Sweden, and the US.

The need for more support

This is something we've noticed since 2014 -- that eSports is up and coming, and Singapore can prospectively be the leader in Southeast Asia.

But of course, many obstacles stand in the way. eSports is still too niche in Singapore, and local aspiring e-sportsmen can't really expect to have full-fledged careers in it in the immediate future.

And this brings us to the elephant in the room -- that our eSportsmen and women could use a lot more support.

To put it in context, Ang, one of Asterisk's members, made the following observation:

"The other teams were so well-equipped and looked like pro-gamers. We were like little villagers who knew nothing."

And it's not as if we're not getting noticed by the international community either.

Our recent achievements have shown our bigger international competitors that Singapore is a force to be reckoned with in the past couple of years.

Asterisk's presence was also highlighted to international eSports enthusiasts in a video by Great Big Story, which has garnered over 1.4million views.

Surely more can be done to show our support to eSports, which can be a very viable avenue and stage for Singaporeans to do Singapore proud on the virtual field.

And with Singapore repeatedly doing well on the international stage, surely it's time for us to take note.

Top image via Asterisk's Facebook's post

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