Scarlett

Sasha Hostyn (born December 1993), and played games as a hobby during school and began to enter tournaments in 2011, leading to her career as a professional player. Hostyn is a transgender woman, and has said that her gender identity has "absolutely no relevance" to how she plays and that she has "always tried to make it a complete non-issue".

Career StarCraft II

Hostyn became prominent in the StarCraft II scene in 2012 when she beat a number of highly ranked professionals at an event in Las Vegas. By 2014, Hostyn had won over $110,000. The New Yorker called her "the most accomplished woman in e-sports".

Dota 2 Having lost some of her "competitive drive" for StarCraft II, Hostyn switched to playing Dota 2 in February 2015, explaining "If I can be good at both it’ll be something nobody has really done before."

Return to StarCraft II As of June 2015, Hostyn has returned to StarCraft II, joining the Dead Pixels team and will compete in Korean leagues.

On August 17, 2016, Scarlett joined Team Expert.

In February 2018, Scarlett won the Intel Extreme Masters tournament, held in the leadup to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, becoming the first woman to win a major StarCraft II tournament. Following this, in November 2018 Scarlett joined Newbee.

In February 2021, she joined the newly formed Shopify Rebellion.

Awards Scarlett was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as "highest career earnings for a female competitive video game player" on October 5, 2016.