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Use code THORIN at https://gamersupps.gg/THORIN for 10% off an order of GamerSupps' delicious energy formula. ► Join the Scrilluminati to get exclusive perks and support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/Thooorin ► Check out a previous CS interview here: https://youtu.be/M9_uIkbGYAo Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey, five time women's CS world champion and current Chief Culture Officer of FlyQuest and Director of FlyQuest RED, is the star of the 481st Episode of 'Reflections'. missharvey is one of the most decorated female esports stars in history. Making her name at the ESWC tournaments in the early days she many times played in the final as well as winning. Her most dominant period came with the SK Ladies/UBINITED dynasty where she won four ESWCs and Arbalet Ukraine 2010 Women, playing alongside names like potter and bENTIA. As well as playing missharvey was one of the figures negotiating deals with team organisations and so she got the team sponsorship from Ubisoft when she was an employee there, CLG Red in the CS:GO days and she now is the Director of FlyQuest RED as part of her work at that organisation. These efforts game women in NA a place to play and help with the costs of competing professionally. Competing up until 2020, missharvey continued to find success with an ESWC win in 2015 on home soil and some top placing at later big money WESG events. After the online era she transitioned to out-of-the-game roles in Counter-Strike. Parallel to her CS:GO era she became a mainstream media figure in her native Canada, where does does hundreds of media appearances a year and has won Canada’s Smartest Person and the notorious Big Brother. She recently came off a season of Big Brother: All-Stars. This interview was recorded on the 13th of February, 2025. ► Time-line of topics discussed: 00:00 Intro 00:26 French people not understanding her accent 01:23 Local LAN scene 03:30 Canadian female team 05:08 Support system 07:17 How good was she early? 08:22 ESWC 2003 11:06 Competition vs. marketing 13:16 Potter and ali 18:56 Doing media 21:04 Winning ESWC 2007 22:51 Chinese team 26:08 Perspective on where women compete 29:47 Significance of competing vs. men 34:06 jane 35:38 Playing on French team 39:09 MiTsu 40:50 bENTIA 45:22 Arablet Cup Female 49:01 UBINITED 54:21 Financial struggles 1:00:21 Dynasty 1:05:09 sapphiRe 1:10:37 zAAz and juliano 1:11:56 CLG Red 1:18:11 Winning ESWC 2015 1:20:07 mimi 1:21:58 vilga 1:23:51 di^ 1:26:51 CAth 1:28:49 How good was she in 1.6 vs. CS:GO? 1:32:39 WESG 1:36:11 Benched 1:37:34 masq 1:41:15 Competing until 2020 1:45:07 Goosebreeder 1:47:44 Mainstream media life alongside gaming 1:57:33 Stress of expectations and scrutiny 2:00:03 potter as an analyst 2:02:45 Big brother 2:07:43 Branding 2:11:26 Success in life of top female players 2:14:35 FlyQuest Chief Culture Officer and running FlyQuest RED 2:19:49 Working small online cups 2:21:50 Changing perceptions 2:27:47 Final words Subscribe this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfeeUuW7edMxF3M_cyxGT8Q/join ► Check out bite-sized Thorin on my new clips channel: https://www.youtube.com/thorinclips ► Follow me on social media: https://twitter.com/Thorin https://facebook.com/Thooorin https://www.instagram.com/thooorinofficial/ ► My written content: https://iamesports.substack.com/ ► My stream: https://www.twitch.tv/Thorin ► You can discuss this content at my Discord server: https://discord.gg/rDKxKfM ► Want esports predictions? I have my own server to post them and share tips: https://discord.gg/T9bgaAQN4D ► This video was kindly supported by: Matt, Pugnatio, Rajcula THE c0ncept Animosity Banediesel Ben Glass Jasun Jensen Goh Tosh touken_ Special thanks go out to JerCkysMiNi0n. #missharvey #flyquest #Thorin