"I was like 'Yeah, I'll try it.' Because why I liked games so much was I really liked the strategy of it." But the investment in time was daunting and when a fledgling women's Call of Duty League circuit started looking for female casters, she switched gears a decade ago. Pichette grew up gaming and initially had dreams of playing professionally. "I think it took me about four years to make the Overwatch League, just hovering in the ecosystem," she said. She then set her sights on the Overwatch League, "grinding" away until she got the job.
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Her first big casting assignment was for "Call of Duty," which also has a pro league. "I've tried to diversify a little bit because the industry can be insecure," she said. Pichette signed on with the high-profile Overwatch League a year ago, but also works other games like Rocket League and Teamfight Tactics, often at the college level.
from school in Sudbury, Ont., was prompted in part because more esports opportunities are available south of the border. So I thought teaching would be a good way to use my degree but also have a flexible schedule of signing up for semesters and maybe taking a day off here and there to travel." "Casting has a lot of travelling and is very spontaneous," she explained. Now living just outside Las Vegas, she has a biology teaching gig at College of Southern Nevada when she's not wearing her esports hat. The 29-year-old Pichette brings a stacked resume to the table, with a bachelor's degree in biological and biomedical sciences and a master's in cellular and molecular biology, both from Laurentian University. The Dallas Fuel defeated the San Francisco Shock to win the US$225,000 event. The other woman among the six casters at the tournament was American Rosemary (Nekkra) Kelley. The Montreal-born Pichette and British analyst Harry (Legday) Pollitt provided the soundtrack to the game - one of three sets of casters, as esports commentators are called - working the Toronto Defiant Summer Showdown which wrapped up Sunday with total attendance of some 4,000 expected over the four days. The players go by gamertags, with Heesu, Although, Hotba, Chorong and Twilight leading the Defiant against London's Backbone, Sparkr, Hadi. And the game action is displayed on a large screen above them. While each member of the five-person teams is hidden behind their monitor on stage, the players' faces are shown larger-than-life on screens adorning the front of the podium behind which they are seated. "Toronto runs London over like a truck," she says, her voice rising.ĭown below at the other end of the Mattamy Athletic Centre, the London Spitfire and Toronto Defiant are on stage hunched over their keyboards as they look to wreak havoc on each other before an enthusiastic crowd in Overwatch League esports play. TORONTO - Standing in front of a bank of screens, Jen (LemonKiwi) Pichette's arms are in constant motion as she documents the carnage in front of her.
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