FACEIT recently announced that Olga “Olga” Rodrigues has become the first woman to have reached Top 3 on the Counter-Strike 2 Season 7 leaderboard. And the discourse from the gaming community has gone exactly as expected.

I’ve covered this kind of topic before – sadly quite often. For The Escapist, I attended the all-female Fortnite tournament, the Milk Cup, to interview the players and highlight the supportive scene. The duo that won included Vader, a trans woman who was quite shy and humble throughout the weekend. The backlash on X (formerly Twitter) was overwhelmingly horrific.

Incels were faux-irritated on behalf of the female gaming community, suddenly showing quite a bit of interest and concern about the lack of support and representation for women in esports. I’m sure these men watch so many Game Changers matches in their spare time!

However, I argued that these trans-hating freaks are actually the reason Vader won the Milk Cup to begin with. She is clearly not going to want to compete with these wretched men who hate her and harass her for playing. During the Milk Cup, she expressed gratitude for the openness and supportiveness of the female Fortnite community.

Now we have proof of this: Olga, who is currently signed with MIBR fe, was grinding the leaderboards with men and competing in-game with men. And now she’s facing the consequences of not just existing, but beating them.

🇧🇷 @0lgaCS is the first woman to have reached Top 3 on the Season 7 leaderboard, averaging 6 matches a day while also competing in FPL. pic.twitter.com/eXajuVdSol

— FACEIT CS2 (@FACEITcs) March 19, 2026

Olga responds to haters in Counter-Strike 2 community

I’m not going to repeat whatever nonsensical stuff men were writing on X about Olga’s accomplishment. It’s exactly what you’d expect: claiming that it’s taking the opportunity away from women (which is untrue and also women don’t care), accusing FACEIT of being “woke,” and just purposefully misidentifying the pro CS2 player.

“Thanks for many people supporting me here, also for the new followers,” Olga said after the tweet went a bit viral on X. “For the haters: if gonna cry send audio.”

The harassment continued under Olga’s own post, but you can also see plenty of support from women. You know, the ones that apparently need so much protection from men. Seriously, stop being “offended” on behalf of women as your way of expressing your own hatred. We are fine over here.

If you truly are so concerned for women’s esports, maybe you can petition for more esports organizations to sign female teams or beg tournament organizers to add a women ‘s-only tournament on the side. Or you can be kinder to women in-game so they feel more comfortable grinding and have a better chance of reaching high skill levels.

For now, the esports landscape is still largely problematic, especially towards female-identifying people. I think this entire thread proves it with fake outrage rather than an attempt to be more inclusive towards women and other minority groups.