No you tried and failed to address the point. You brought up non nationals winning marathons over locals without realising that the people who are travelling to other countries to take part in marathons have already been afforded the opportunity to reach their peak performance

My exact point was that in a merit based system the top tier is not representative of a random population sampling. In otherwords, skill makes it possible for the statistically smallest population to be consistently over-represented at the top.

I knowingly picked an extreme example precisely to illustrate this point.

As a minor point, you're wagging the dog a bit on that one, as the Kenyan Rift Valley didn't have marathons until after they became known in the circle.

The truth is simply that esports is still young and niche so luck is still the largest component to breaking into professional levels. This makes the population skew create a bias at the top levels. Almost every child gets the opportunity to join a track team and begin a path to becoming a jet setting marathon runner, but regardless of their skill most kids don't wander into situations where being really good at video games seems like a goal worth working hard for.

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here. Luck speaks to randomization but the results aren't random. We see clear skill gaps at times between teams, we can wager on outcomes like vegas odds.

What we're seeing is a consistent trend that's favoring a gender for some reason. I'm not saying men are "better" at games than women, only that there is a factor or are multiple factors contributing to a persistent trend in the data.

You can argue funding, or support, or invitational access -- hell, argue referee bias, because at least we could find that in the data -- argue whatever you like, but you cannot submit that it's simply because women are under represented by volume. That's not how this process works.

There are tournaments every month of the year all over the globe. We've seen enough frequency that we should have seen the end of the probability curve once by now.