Street Fighter V pro spiller, Ricki Ortiz, er blevet en etableret del af Evil Geniuses. Hun startede ud på Tekken-scenen, men lavede derefter skiftet til Street Fighter, hvor hun har været siden og formåede at vinde sølv i Capcom Cup forrige år.
Ortiz talte med BBC Three om sin overgang til transseksuel kvinde og "battling with her own gender identity, her time in the arcades of California, and how the gaming community helped her to transition."
<i>"It wasn't really something that I talked about, it wasn't really something that anyone asked. It's funny, in the [gaming] community I never had to worry about that ever, about being ridiculed, or being belittled, or someone not liking me for being LGBTQ or whatever it may be, whatever I was. It was always a really good environment," fortæller Ortiz.