An Extended Interview with CLG’s Stephanie “missharvey” Harvey on esports, diversity and ‘This Week in CLG powered by Spectrum

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An Extended Interview with CLG’s Stephanie “missharvey” Harvey on esports, diversity and ‘This Week in CLG powered by Spectrum

Publish Date: June 25, 2020

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TGH’s Thomas Baker got to interview Stephanie “missharvey” Harvey. She is currently the Director of Esports Franchise Development and Outreach for Counter Logic Gaming. Previously, she played Counter Strike professionally for CLG Red and other organizations.

Stephanie’s podcast, “This Week in CLG powered by Spectrum,” features guests, mostly from within CLG, where they keep fans updated on the organization’s latest news and conversations. In this interview she discusses her long tenure in esports, her current initiatives within CLG, “This Week,” her favorite esports as a fan, and women in esports.

Thomas (TGH) : So, for anyone who doesn’t quite know you outside of the podcast, give me a quick background run on your time in esports.

Stephanie : Yeah. You know, it’s always such a hard one because I’ve done so much, but we could sum it up in a couple of sentences.Well, I was a professional player for about six to seven years in a game called Counter Strike, and then later on Counter Strike Global Offensive, which is still popular to this day.

And I won five to six official championships, because I never counted some championships because they were not like the greatest, but a lot of my coworkers and teammates count them. Let’s just say five official World Championships and throughout, I would say, a decade, so I guess we had ups and downs just a little bit like any sports athletes that were able to manage to be champions for a decade.

missharvey used to play CS:GO for CLG Red (Image courtesy of CLG).

And now, I’ve always been an activist and pretty vocal about making sure that in gaming we do things better, we try to do things better. It’s like overall for tournament quality to like inclusivity, diversity, and whatnot that we’re doing an effort in our day to day. So it’s been, I would say, a big part of my last 5, 6, 7 years to be vocal about minorities, diversity, women in gaming, toxicity, cyber-bullying anyone.

Then recently I was able to re-join Counter Logic Gaming from a player to now a director, and they kind of gave me the opportunity to live my dream now that I’m not a competitor anymore, which is to make a difference and fight the good fight from within right?