UK-based Greek League of Legends player Chara ‘Delicate’ Giannopoulou is one of a handful of players taking part in the GirlGamer World Finals this month.
She will be playing with Galaxy Racer in the women’s tournament, which runs from March 14th to 19th 2023 in Bahrain (thanks to EU female LoL journalist Rigas for the intel).
Galaxy Racer progressed to the GirlGamer World Finals through the MENA qualifier. The other teams progressed through different regional qualifiers: G2 Hel (GirlGamer Oradea Festival winners), Kingnigatsa (Daejeon), Rise Gaming (Sao Paulo) and ATK Valkyrie (South Africa).
Galaxy Racer will play ATK Valkyrie in the World Finals first.
Esports News UK spoke to Delicate to find out more about her and her plans for the tournament.
“My first big achievement was reaching Challenger in the EUNE server in season 8. After that, I only played in EU West where I have peaked Grandmaster in the last two seasons. I started being interested in competitive when a Greek org approached me willing to make a female team – and I was fascinated by the whole idea.”
Delicate, Galaxy Racer
“I started playing League of Legends around season 2 when I was still little,” Delicate said. “My brother introduced me to this game and I got immediately hooked. I started as an ADC main, then switched to mid, then support, and now I am a jungler!
“I grew up in Greece but I came to the UK at 18 for my university studies. Currently I am in my fourth year of my Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree at Newcastle University.
“My first big achievement was reaching Challenger in the EUNE server in season 8. After that, I only played in EU West where I have peaked Grandmaster in the last two seasons. I started being interested in competitive when a Greek org approached me willing to make a female team – and I was fascinated by the whole idea.
“Since then, I have played in three female tournaments, two as support and one as jungler. I am happy with how all of them went, especially the last two, where we finished third in the Rising Stars tournament with Zerolag Female, a team which was formed one week prior to the tournament, and the GirlGamer MENA qualifier where I played under Galaxy Racer, we came first and qualified to the GirlGamer World Finals in Bahrain.”
‘My goal is to do my best, apply all I have learnt – and win’ – Delicate on GirlGamer World Finals
Delicate spoke about how she joined Galaxy Racer ahead of the GirlGamer World Finals, and her goals going into the tournament.
“When Galaxy Racer contacted me, I was free agent as support, and the GirlGamer qualifiers were in two days!” she said.
“I already knew the top-laner, Telchar, and I found it a good opportunity to explore another role, so I tried out for the team and ended up joining.
“I am very excited about the GirlGamer World Finals. My goal is to do my best and apply all I have learnt these past few weeks, as I role swapped to jungle very recently. Of course, the main goal is to win the whole tournament, but if that is not the case, we aim to play as well as we possibly can.”
Delicate said she’s not been involved in women’s League of Legends for too long, but wants to see more tournaments in the future.
“I have not been a part of the female scene for a long time, but what I can say with certainty is that there need to be more tournaments,” she added.
“There are a lot of talented girls that just need a push to show their potential and develop. It is very cool many big orgs like G2, SK and others have shown interest and support our scene and this can only make us hopeful for the future in terms of the scene’s development.”
You can watch the GirlGamer World Finals on the GirlGamer Twitch channel here, and see the bracket below.
Related article: ‘The female League of Legends scene is much better now, but it still has a long way to go’ – Fourth Wall academy support player Tabby
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
