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Sovetsky Soyuz
Russian Federation905 Posts
Maybe the real issue here is our romantic notion of "sports". Society has moved and is fast moving on towards the nature of what is physical and virtual. Sports are the last remaining strongholds of this, but only because there is an organized and well funded group to promote this. But outside this notion, I think differentiating is simply an soon to be outdated concept. Its like a time lag where all the rest have gone virtual - money, education, even relationship, bu sports remain traditional. | ||
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moltenlead
Canada866 Posts
For one thing how are countries going to be able to pay for all the computers etc.. that they will need to run the events. This will scare all smaller countries away from hosting the olympics. What I would prefer is if the Olympics would just announce some sort of sponsorship for WCG or something, rather than incorporating esports into the main events. The goal of the olympics is the search of the ultimate athlete, and anything that involves luck (ie... a lack of scouting) or constantly changes (new builds, styles, patches) should not be able to get in the way of the true skill. It does kind of pain me to say this but Halo/COD (FPS in general) would be better in the olympics than SC/RTS. Sports like golf (a century old) are just getting into the olympics, we need to establish our own major following before barging into the Olympic Games, and the game needs to be relatively stable. FIFA still debates goalline technology some 20 years after it was available, changing the game ever 4 years just doesn't fit the bill. This being said, I want Starcraft to become big and global, just the Olympics isn't the right place for it to be. | ||
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Rtran10
Canada78 Posts
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
On May 23 2011 02:49 FlopTurnReaver wrote: Is Chess an olympic discipline? No, chess has a separate olympics. | ||
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hongo
207 Posts
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Xiron
Germany1233 Posts
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Xiron
Germany1233 Posts
On May 23 2011 03:46 hongo wrote: I feel as though this would be a perversion of the olympics. Don't get me wrong I love esports, but the fact that you have to add that "e" before "sports" is pretty much admitting that it is not a sport, but rather something else that is similar. Sorry but this didnt make much sense for me. It's called eSports because someone did go ahead and called it eSports and it established itself as such. It could have been called sports just as well. | ||
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lofung
Hong Kong298 Posts
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hongo
207 Posts
On May 23 2011 03:48 Xiron wrote: Sorry but this didnt make much sense for me. It's called eSports because someone did go ahead and called it eSports and it established itself as such. It could have been called sports just as well. I don't think it could have been called sports just as well because it isn't a sport. I believe that it earned the title "e-sports" because this difference was recognized but people wanted it to still be respected as much as a sport | ||
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BigLighthouse
United Kingdom424 Posts
On May 23 2011 03:43 moltenlead wrote: For one thing how are countries going to be able to pay for all the computers etc.. that they will need to run the events. This will scare all smaller countries away from hosting the olympics. . Do you have any conception of how expensive it is to host the olympic games? Rental of computers for the event is a drop in the ocean compared to the expenditure that already goes into the Olympics!! Granted I dont think that the Olympics should include computer games, but the expense is not the reason for it, nor will it ever be. | ||
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
we're going to have to wait for games like Chess to be made an Olympic competition before thinking that a competitive video game can potentially qualify for the Olympics | ||
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GoTuNk!
Chile4591 Posts
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rysecake
United States2632 Posts
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Thrill
2599 Posts
When/if international SC2 teams are as established as BW teams in Korea - we can make a IESPA organization and organize a 'champions league'. | ||
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Kurr
Canada2338 Posts
On May 23 2011 05:02 rysecake wrote: Won't happen and shouldn't happen. As much as I love playing video games, they simply do not belong in the olympics. Agreed. Sorry guys, but playing a game competitively is just not the same type of competition as athletic events, soccer, hockey, etc. E-sports, despite it's name, are not sports. They are events, or whatever else you want to call them. But not sports. | ||
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Gnax
Sweden490 Posts
On May 23 2011 02:53 pyrogenetix wrote: well golf just got into the olympics Point being?.. | ||
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imperator-xy
Germany1377 Posts
so its just about how conservative the heads of the olympics are but as far as i know esports should be in the beijing olympics 2008. at least there was an official tournament for wc3, but somehow it started much too late and everything was messed up. it was organized by GGL by the way | ||
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imperator-xy
Germany1377 Posts
On May 23 2011 05:20 Kurr wrote: Agreed. Sorry guys, but playing a game competitively is just not the same type of competition as athletic events, soccer, hockey, etc. E-sports, despite it's name, are not sports. They are events, or whatever else you want to call them. But not sports. olympics arent just about sports well, olympics is just about sports if you can explain how gun shooting is actually a sport | ||
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Scorch
Austria3371 Posts
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Kralic
Canada2628 Posts
On May 23 2011 05:34 imperator-xy wrote: olympics arent just about sports well, olympics is just about sports if you can explain how gun shooting is actually a sport What? Shooting a gun isn't like an FPS game where you point and click. You have to do a lot of things to prepare for your shot. It is physical enough. Let us use the biathalon as an example as to how shooting a rifle is a physical sport. The 20 kilometres (12 mi) individual race (15 km for women) is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane,[1] in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totaling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds. | ||
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