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Scarlett was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as "highest career earnings for a female competitive video game player" on October 5, 2016. The series, set in the beginning of the 26th century, centers on a galactic struggle for dominance among four speciesthe adaptable and mobile Terrans, the ever-evolving insectoid Zerg, the powerful and enigmatic Protoss, and the godlike Xel'Naga creator race. Following this, in November 2018 Scarlett joined Newbee. StarCraft is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and owned by Blizzard Entertainment. In February, 2018, Scarlett won the Intel Extreme Masters tournament, held in the leadup to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, becoming the first woman to win a major StarCraft II tournament. Having lost some of her "competitive drive" for StarCraft II, Hostyn switched to playing Dota 2 in February 2015, explaining "If I can be good at both it’ll be something nobody has really done before." Return to StarCraft IIĪs of June 2015, Hostyn has returned to StarCraft II, joining the Dead Pixels team and will compete in Korean leagues. In 2014, Polygon named her one of 2014's 50 admirable gaming people, describing her as "one of the few women succeeding at the top level of the StarCraft II pro scene". She was the only Red Bull Battle Grounds 2014 finalist from a country other than South Korea. The New Yorker called her "the most accomplished woman in e-sports". ĭuring her time playing StarCraft II, Hostyn has been called "the queen of StarCraft II", "Korean Kryptonite", and "The Queen of Blades". By mid-2014, Hostyn had taken first place in seven tournaments, making her the second highest-paid professional female gamer at the time. In 2013, she climbed the global StarCraft II rankings to rank 21 and placed second at NorthCon. Hostyn became prominent in the StarCraft II scene in 2012 when she beat a number of highly ranked professionals at an event in Las Vegas. Hostyn is a transgender woman, and has said that her gender identity has "absolutely no relevance" to how she plays and that she has "always tried to make it a complete non-issue". Hostyn grew up in Kingston, Ontario and played games as a hobby during school and began to enter tournaments in 2011, leading to her career as a professional player.