It's been years since I read it, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't finished at the time. So I'm not positive my details are correct,
Characters are late teen or college age, and the story revolves around an e-sports online game where teams take on each other head-to-head, remotely, (Something like soccer or capture-the-flag; the teams are actively facing off against each other, as opposed to a quest/best-a-boss setup.)
Our male protagonist has been recruited by a team's captain to play for an otherwise all-female team. (Not a cheat, I'm pretty sure there are mixed teams competing as well as single-sex ones.) I think the captain is aware (or becomes aware) that he's not a girl -- and the other team members aren't; most or all the background game interplay is by text and none of it allows for camera views. (Not sure about voice.)
Eventually they win enough games to get entered in a live playoff tournament in a city where at least some team members including our guy don't live. It's decided that he'll dress as a girl, and the captain gets him his own hotel room, since he'll need privacy to change clothes.
The team has never played under conditions where they can all see each other, and in one day's online practice games against lesser teams that are playing remotely, they're totally out of sync and lose every game. That's the last I remember.
Does anyone recognize it, and know whether it was completed?
Thanks, Eric


I remember it
Unfortunately, I can't remember the title. As I remember it was complete, at least to the day of the competion. I seem to recall the name was something like ''E-Girl'' or ''E-Gamer'', or something like that.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Gamer Girl
by Bryony Marsh
yeah
that name sounds familiar.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Here
https://bryonymarsh.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08... this is the link.
https://bryonymarsh.wordpress.com/selected-stories/ is the main site.
Sephrena
Thanks, People...
But this isn't it. I just read Gamer Girl recently, and there's really not much in common with my description, besides a computer game (of a different kind), a teenaged boy with a girl character, and a team of girls. (And a hotel room, but he's changing for a birthday party, not a tournament.)
Another possibility
Could it be "The Importance of Being a Team Player" by Gwenington?
https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/96752/importance-bein...
That's Definitely It...
Another one from 2023 -- I really should have remembered it better. Thank you.
But I was right about it being left in midstream. I'm wondering if she picked it up elsewhere.
OK, DuckDuckGo Search shows her with a ScribbleHub account, which lists the story as "complete", with 38 chapters plus an epilogue, completed on 5/4/2024. So BC got less than half of it, apparently.
Eric
incomplete here
I read it at TG Storytime
https://www.tgstorytime.com/viewstory.php?sid=7084
Could Also
Could also be Daring Diane's incomplete Virtual Princess entry from the Princess Contest in 2020.