Hello Gabrielle and welcome to SK Gaming. Would you please introduce yourself for those who do not know you?

"Hi, My name is Gabrielle. My alias is moxie. I am a 25 year old gamer from Virginia. I currently play for NA female team Hold My Purse."

Your team Hold My Purse recently underwent lineup changes. Do you feel more prepared than before or you believe more time is needed to smooth out? Tell us more about the roles and strengths of the team?

"I believe that within time we will be more prepared than ever before. We struggled for a long time to find a dedicated fifth that had the same goals that we did. Now we have a fifth and are more motivated than ever to improve and compete. One of our strengths is the core of our team has been competing together for many years. We all know each other very well in and out of game. It is easy for us to communicate and to try to work things out together. Another one of our strengths is that we can easily adapt to things. We are improving and adapting faster with every scrim that we play. If we notice someone is abusing something in our setups we try to be quicker to change what we need to in order to secure rounds."

You have been streaming quite a lot team practices with your girls from Hold My Purse recently. Are you preparing for something particular? Which events are you planning to participate in the coming months?

"We are preparing for ESEA Season 18 along with LANs that we would like to attend in North America and EU as long as time and money permits. We would really love to the chance to compete internationally but because we are currently unsponsored for the expense of one EU event we could go to two or more NA events."

I remember last year you were part of the North American eSports Revival initiative, where numerous professional players and other related celebrities united together to host a tiny tournament and other entertainments in support of the North American scene via 24 hours long live stream. Can you tell us more about this campaign? Did it pass your expectations and goals?

"I was asked to volunteer and help promote the North American eSports Revival movement by a friend who was very passionate about trying to help the NA scene. They decided to get a group of friends and fellow gamers together to try to host an online cup and some other events to help spark interest in the NA CS scene again. I believe that we met the goals of what North American eSports Revival was intended to be. People started to get excited about the scene here again in North America."

moXie (center) at the Iron Gaming 2014 Finals in Austin, Texas. (Photo courtesy of ESEA

Are you planning to do similar activities such as the North American eSports Revival campaign? Perhaps an interesting showmatch for the near future?

"Unfortunately, the person that organized the North America eSports Revival campaign no longer has time to organize another event due to other life commitments. However, I have organized barcrafts for StarCraft events in the past and I am always looking to take a more active role in eSports so I may try to organize some sort of event in the future I am just not sure what it would be quite yet."

The majority of the top teams in North America also underwent massive lineup changes this month. Would you like to share your opinion with us about the current state there? Perhaps for Cloud 9 or iBUYPOWER for example?

"Even though I would have loved to see the rosters of these top teams stick it out and work on their problems, it isn’t realistic. They want to win, North America wants to see them win, and sometimes you need to make changes in order to do that. I am hoping that with these roster changes along with the upcoming MLG Xgames event will give these teams motivation and time to get in some good practice before the event and place well."

As a professional female player, if you had the chance to meet with Valve Corporation right now, what would you advise the development team and the other employees related to CS:GO to do to enhance the competitive female scene, excluding the obvious tournament funding?

"I think that any changes that the CS:GO development team make to the game would be beneficial to all competitive teams. Primarily any of the fixes that still need to be made (i.e. jumping scout). I don’t know if there is something that Valve could do to enhance the competitive female scene besides maybe incorporating female models or something that may drive new females to pick up the game and want to play it competitively."

Thank you for the interview and your time spend with SK Gaming, Gabrielle. I wish you happy holidays and successful New Year. The last words belong to you.

"Thank you for taking the time to interview me I truly appreciate it. Also, shout out to the rest of my teammates and the stream team of HoldMyPurse."

Next on the line of SK Gaming's interview series we have the North American CS:GO professional player and notable streamer Gabrielle 'moXie' Moore from Hold My Purse.In this short interview we have discussed topics such as her recent team's lineup changes, future competitive plans, recent events in the North American scene and more. Read below to find out.Stay tuned to SK Gaming for more exclusive interviews from the top competitive CS:GO scene.