Frag Dolls, likely the most famous all-girl profession gamers team has been disbanded after a fruitful 11 years run.
"When the team was created back in 2004, we weren’t really sure what the Frag Dolls should be, and certainly never imagined what it would become. But we knew that it hinged upon the common misconception that video games were boys’ toys," said Frag Doll co-founder Morgan 'Rhoulette' Romine. "The essential appeal of the Frag Dolls emerged from those delightful moments of surprise when people discovered that women like us not only loved video games, we were REALLY GOOD at them."
With support from Ubisoft, Frag Dolls was founded in 2004 by seven member. Over the next 11 years, the team grew to include 22 professional female gamers. They also established the Cadette program which helped more than 80 female gamers find work experience at EA, 2K, Wargaming, Blizzard, Nintendo, Obsidian, Riot, Bungie, Twitch, Microsoft, Oculus Rift, BioWare, Machinima, Astro, and Ubisoft.
"Now, more than a decade later, the sisterhood lives on, but the world of video games has evolved. We can count it as progress that 'girls playing games' is no longer the source of surprise that it once was,", said Romine, explaining why the team was no longer needed. "We’ve said many times over the years that we hoped to one day see true gender equity across gaming communities, rendering an all-girl gaming team unremarkable. I won’t claim that we’ve reached gender equity, by any means; we still have a long way to go. But there has been progress enough that we’ve reached the clear beginning of a new era."
