Maddie is one of the pros at Gen.G's Fortnite team.
Maddie is one of the pros at Gen.G's Fortnite team.
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Gen.G announces search for all-women team for Valorant

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gen.G and Bumble have announced a search for an all-women Valorant esports team.

Gen.G, an esports organization with many teams, has an existing partnership with Bumble, which sponsored the first female team, the all-women Fortnite esports team. The search is part of a larger cause aimed at achieving gender equity and inclusion in gaming and esports. It follows the announcement from another esports organization, Cloud9, which announced on Sunday it had acquired an all-women Valorant team.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.