Stephanie Harvey

missharvey
Stephanie Harvey
Status Active
Born (1986-04-19) 19 April 1986
Nationality Canadian
Games
Professional career
2005 CheckSix Divas
2006–2010 SK Ladies
2011–2015 UBINITED
2015–2017 CLG.CS Red
2018– CLG.CS Red

Stephanie Harvey (born 19 April 1986), also known as missharvey, is a Canadian video game developer and professional gamer. She is best known as a Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player, having won five world championships.[1][2] She plays for Counter Logic Gaming Red.[2]

Outside professional gaming, Harvey works as a designer at video game developer Ubisoft Montreal.[1] She is also known for advocating against gender discrimination in professional gaming, co-founding the online community Missclicks to address the under-representation of women in geek and video game culture.[3][4]

In December 2016, she won the third season of Canada's Smartest Person.

Professional gaming career

Harvey began her professional gaming career playing Counter-Strike. In 2005, she joined CheckSix Divas, with whom she placed fifth in the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESCW).[5][6] She then moved to SK Ladies, playing with the team for four years and winning two world championships.[6]

In 2011 Harvey founded a new Counter-Strike team, UBINITED, sponsored by her employer Ubisoft, which went on to win the ESCW 2011 Women's event.[6] The following year the team switched to CS:GO and again won that year's world championship. In 2015 it signed to Counter Logic Gaming to become CLG.CS Red, and won a third world championship.[7][8] In 2016 CLG.CS became the first all-female team to move into a gaming house and began to compete in more men's events.[9]

Harvey left CLG.CS Red in May 2017[10][11] but rejoined the team a year later.[12]

Advocacy

Harvey has spoken out against sexism and gender discrimination in professional gaming. She has highlighted that less than 5% of professional gamers are women, that there is a significant gender disparity in player's earnings, and that women in gaming face routine verbal abuse and sexual harassment:[3]

When I started gaming I was really a pioneer, which I didn’t know at the time, and it was not easy... Over the Internet, people don’t have to deal with the repercussions of insulting someone else. They can’t see a sad face. I had to build a really strong shell to be able to succeed.

— Harvey, interview with The Surge, 2015[6]

It's still a 'boy's club' so as a woman you're automatically judged for being different... The way I get harassed is about what they would do to my body, about why I don't deserve to be there because I use my sexuality - it's all extremely graphic... Why do I do this if my community hate me? Because I am a feminist, because I believe women have a place in gaming.

— Harvey, interview with the BBC, 2016[3]

In 2016, together with female professional gamers Anna Prosser Robinson, Geneviève Forget and Stephanie Powell, Harvey founded Missclicks, and online community and safe space to address these issues by promoting female role models in gaming.[3][6]

After winning Season Three of Canada's Smartest Person in December 2016, Harvey selected Opération Enfant Soleil, a Quebec charity supporting pediatrics in the province, as the recipient of the $20,000 in prize money.[13][14]

References

  1. 1 2 Ewalt, David M. (2014-01-06). "30 Under 30: The Brightest Young Stars In Video Games". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  2. 1 2 "missharvey". Counter Logic Gaming. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "100 Women 2016: The women challenging sexism in e-sports". BBC News. 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  4. ↑ White, Catriona (2016-12-07). "Five women who aren't on Wikipedia but should be". BBC Three. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  5. ↑ Khalyleh, Hana (2015-10-29). "Here are the top five women in eSports". BaltimoreGamer. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Cooke, Lacey (2015-01-15). "Stephanie Harvey Dedicates Her Life To Her Passion: Video Games". The Surge. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  7. ↑ "Announcing: CLG.CS Red". Counter Logic Gaming. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  8. ↑ Malachowski, Michal "stich" (2015-07-12). "missharvey: "This is a new beginning"". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  9. ↑ Juillet, Jacob; Randhawa, Navneet (2015-12-08). "CLG Red's missharvey: 'My life is gaming. My life is CS'". theScore esports. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  10. ↑ Miralia, James (2017-06-07). "CLG Red Undergoes Major Roster Change". DBLTAP. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  11. ↑ Duque, Daniel (2017-06-07). "CLG Red change duo, add head coach". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  12. ↑ Martin, Brandon (2018-05-15). "missharvey returns to CLG Red". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  13. ↑ "Stephanie Harvey donates $20,000 to Opération Enfant Soleil". CBC.ca. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Stephanie Harvey is Canada's Smartest Person! - Videos - Canada's Smartest Person". Retrieved 2016-12-31.
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