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zalz
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Netherlands3704 Posts
August 04 2012 13:29 GMT
#441
Some people really take SC2 too seriously...
Sawamura
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Malaysia7602 Posts
August 04 2012 13:29 GMT
#442
Computer games vs real life sports and my vote will go to real life sports because it takes more dedication and physical ability to do than sitting on the chair and hammering at the keyboard . That said I enjoyed badminton a lot and the amount athletic ability and strategy that is required to play it is really demanding . Haven't seen a computer game that is able to match the same level of competitiveness exhibits in real life sports.

BW/KT Forever R.I.P KT.Violet dearly missed ..
Canx
Profile Joined September 2010
Singapore85 Posts
August 04 2012 13:29 GMT
#443
When I read the title, I was pretty shocked.

Then I saw the link was from Fox News. Worry was replaced with sheer absurdity.
Thesidu
Profile Joined November 2010
Sweden290 Posts
August 04 2012 13:31 GMT
#444
On August 04 2012 20:53 rezzan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 07:30 aeroblaster wrote:
You put LoL up on that list but not Dota 2? mega hard fail dude



Dota is never gonna get bigger than LoL as it is today and anytime in the future.

now i got dota beta and that game is okay,but its just another Hon remake,imho.


wow you have no idea what your talking about haha

Dota 1 is huge and when dota 2 comes out it will be even bigger.

LoL is just another crappy dota remake that will eventually die out to dota 2.
¯\_(シ)_/¯
TyrantPotato
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1541 Posts
August 04 2012 13:37 GMT
#445
Starcraft will NEVER be in the Olympics so long as blizzard has control over it.

Forever ZeNEX.
Lazzi
Profile Joined June 2011
Switzerland1923 Posts
August 04 2012 13:39 GMT
#446
On August 04 2012 22:14 Figgy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 08:11 Praetorial wrote:
On August 03 2012 08:06 StorkHwaiting wrote:
On August 03 2012 08:00 Praetorial wrote:
On August 03 2012 07:57 kill619 wrote:
On August 03 2012 07:36 llamasrule1214 wrote:
Eh, while this is a interesting idea, i feel like its kinda disregarding the tradition of the Olympics, physical competition among the best in the world, and E-Sports doesn't really have that feeling. Being a high level swimmer myself, I know from a first-hand POV that the work ethic needed to be even remotely OK at any sport is ridicioulous, both mentally and physcially, one must push themselves, but E-Sports like sc2 doesn't have the physical component. The Olympics, imo, should be a place of the world's physical best only. just my 2 very biased cents.


While i agree with the notion that Olympics are for more physical sports than SC, its kind of hard to argue that being able to move your hands as fast as the best Starcraft players on the planet do, averaging 200+ epm, isn't physically demanding. While it isn't as hard as running, swimming, jumping etc. it's not like anyone can just have 200+ epm while doing all the thinking required to play sc, let alone move their hands that fast for that long.


Working one's thumbs and hands over a keyboard, with excellent hand-eye coordination, is a skill that I'd love to have.

It doesn't deserve a spot at the pinnacle of human physical prowess.


I don't understand your logic. Working one's thumb and hands over a bow with excellent hand eye coordination is called archery. It's in the Olympics. Does that deserve a spot at the pinnacle of human physical prowess?


Do you have any concept of how much strength it takes to draw a bow? Archers need incredibly strong arm muscles to do what they do.

I lift regularly, and it would be insanely difficult for me to draw one of the bows being used at the Olympics.


On August 03 2012 08:09 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
I'd rather see Bowling as an Olympic Sport and I hate Bowling.


Yes, I agree.


You clearly haven't drawn a real or a competitive bow before. Neither are actually challenging physically in any way shape or form. It's holding your aim steady that's difficult.

I actually do archery and it doesn't require a strength atthe beginning, but at the end you get tired and if you're not strong enough you start doing bullshit.
I do really want to see sc2 atthe olympics. Some might say that it isn't physical, but is rifle physical?
It's good to be back
blug
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia623 Posts
August 04 2012 13:41 GMT
#447
On August 04 2012 22:39 Lazzi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2012 22:14 Figgy wrote:
On August 03 2012 08:11 Praetorial wrote:
On August 03 2012 08:06 StorkHwaiting wrote:
On August 03 2012 08:00 Praetorial wrote:
On August 03 2012 07:57 kill619 wrote:
On August 03 2012 07:36 llamasrule1214 wrote:
Eh, while this is a interesting idea, i feel like its kinda disregarding the tradition of the Olympics, physical competition among the best in the world, and E-Sports doesn't really have that feeling. Being a high level swimmer myself, I know from a first-hand POV that the work ethic needed to be even remotely OK at any sport is ridicioulous, both mentally and physcially, one must push themselves, but E-Sports like sc2 doesn't have the physical component. The Olympics, imo, should be a place of the world's physical best only. just my 2 very biased cents.


While i agree with the notion that Olympics are for more physical sports than SC, its kind of hard to argue that being able to move your hands as fast as the best Starcraft players on the planet do, averaging 200+ epm, isn't physically demanding. While it isn't as hard as running, swimming, jumping etc. it's not like anyone can just have 200+ epm while doing all the thinking required to play sc, let alone move their hands that fast for that long.


Working one's thumbs and hands over a keyboard, with excellent hand-eye coordination, is a skill that I'd love to have.

It doesn't deserve a spot at the pinnacle of human physical prowess.


I don't understand your logic. Working one's thumb and hands over a bow with excellent hand eye coordination is called archery. It's in the Olympics. Does that deserve a spot at the pinnacle of human physical prowess?


Do you have any concept of how much strength it takes to draw a bow? Archers need incredibly strong arm muscles to do what they do.

I lift regularly, and it would be insanely difficult for me to draw one of the bows being used at the Olympics.


On August 03 2012 08:09 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
I'd rather see Bowling as an Olympic Sport and I hate Bowling.


Yes, I agree.


You clearly haven't drawn a real or a competitive bow before. Neither are actually challenging physically in any way shape or form. It's holding your aim steady that's difficult.

I actually do archery and it doesn't require a strength atthe beginning, but at the end you get tired and if you're not strong enough you start doing bullshit.
I do really want to see sc2 atthe olympics. Some might say that it isn't physical, but is rifle physical?


Actually the biggest thing to Archery is compensating for wind. Assuming Olympic Athletes were in a vacuum they would score a 10 most of the time.
Derp
SnowyPsilocybin
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom265 Posts
August 04 2012 13:49 GMT
#448
Will never be Olympic as Blizzard has control over it, its basically like giant advertising for blizzard.

Doesn't deserve to be as its not physical enough, imo Olympic should be physical. I don't think shooting should be an Olympic sport, unless shooting is physical in some way that I don't know about.

Additionally, there is a shit ton of other sports which deserve to be in Olympic sport way before SC or any video game.

Eposrts is tiny when compared to other sports.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
August 04 2012 13:52 GMT
#449
LoL for the official ones.

In my heart

Broodwar #1
LoL #2

nothing else
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Vulture174
Profile Joined February 2011
United States74 Posts
August 04 2012 14:09 GMT
#450
I think the fundamental problem with an e-sport in the olimpics is that no one will ever know how balance effects the outcome of the game, the thing with physical sports is that they are allwasy even, you will never have someone that is able to place better in the high jump because he has say a certain color jacket on. But in an e-sport balance plays a part.
Have a cookie!
Overpowered
Profile Joined January 2011
Czech Republic764 Posts
August 04 2012 14:19 GMT
#451
DotA2 pls!
Just another gold Protoss...
Waterflow
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden1550 Posts
August 04 2012 14:29 GMT
#452
On August 04 2012 23:09 Vulture174 wrote:
I think the fundamental problem with an e-sport in the olimpics is that no one will ever know how balance effects the outcome of the game, the thing with physical sports is that they are allwasy even, you will never have someone that is able to place better in the high jump because he has say a certain color jacket on. But in an e-sport balance plays a part.


There's a certain thing called doping that affects the balance in physical sports. Guess you forgot about that.
Callynn
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands917 Posts
August 04 2012 14:40 GMT
#453
On August 04 2012 22:29 zalz wrote:
Some people really take SC2 too seriously...


Some people take the Olympics too seriously, but that's not the point.

I don't want Esports to drop to the level of physical strength. Esports are about sheer strategic insight, timings and reaction at a competitive level. They belong more to chess and checkers than to rowing and archery.

However, I wouldn't mind a globally oriented Esports event every 4 years with the same prestige as the Olympics, but they should be separate from the physical Olympics because the audience and the athletes are just at a completely different cultural level (with the exception that the athletes all practice like hell and the audience enjoy watching their respective (E)sports).
Comparing BW with SCII is like comparing a beautiful three-master sailing ship with a modern battlecruiser. Both are beautiful in their own way, both perform the same task, but they are worlds apart in how they are built and how they are steered.
Aveng3r
Profile Joined February 2012
United States2411 Posts
August 04 2012 14:45 GMT
#454
On August 04 2012 22:37 TyrantPotato wrote:
Starcraft will NEVER be in the Olympics so long as blizzard has control over it.


wait what? getting it on the olympics would be the best thing in the world for blizzard. can you imagine a bigger way to advertise a game?
I carve marble busts of assassinated world leaders - PM for a quote
dark_dragoon10
Profile Joined May 2010
United States299 Posts
August 04 2012 14:55 GMT
#455
On August 04 2012 23:40 Callynn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2012 22:29 zalz wrote:
Some people really take SC2 too seriously...


Some people take the Olympics too seriously, but that's not the point.

I don't want Esports to drop to the level of physical strength. Esports are about sheer strategic insight, timings and reaction at a competitive level. They belong more to chess and checkers than to rowing and archery.

However, I wouldn't mind a globally oriented Esports event every 4 years with the same prestige as the Olympics, but they should be separate from the physical Olympics because the audience and the athletes are just at a completely different cultural level (with the exception that the athletes all practice like hell and the audience enjoy watching their respective (E)sports).


Has no one ever heard of WCG?
The TYRANT IS BACK! JAEDONG HWAITING! Nal_rA, Yellow, Boxer 4 life. Stephano, MC, and Zergbong!!!!
hooberschmit
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada101 Posts
August 04 2012 15:00 GMT
#456
She said "Badmitten." I will never respect this person now.
"I gotta do some vacuuming really fast WSHHHHHH" - Day[9]
Dante_A_
Profile Joined September 2010
United States161 Posts
August 04 2012 15:01 GMT
#457
Foxnews, the source of the video, is an utter joke so I wouldn't put any stock in computer games getting to the olympics. It would be cool though.
Kamma
Profile Joined June 2011
Denmark111 Posts
August 04 2012 15:04 GMT
#458
SC2 could be awesome, but I think both LoL and Dota 2 could be in there as well
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Callynn
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands917 Posts
August 04 2012 15:06 GMT
#459
On August 04 2012 23:55 dark_dragoon10 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2012 23:40 Callynn wrote:
On August 04 2012 22:29 zalz wrote:
Some people really take SC2 too seriously...


Some people take the Olympics too seriously, but that's not the point.

I don't want Esports to drop to the level of physical strength. Esports are about sheer strategic insight, timings and reaction at a competitive level. They belong more to chess and checkers than to rowing and archery.

However, I wouldn't mind a globally oriented Esports event every 4 years with the same prestige as the Olympics, but they should be separate from the physical Olympics because the audience and the athletes are just at a completely different cultural level (with the exception that the athletes all practice like hell and the audience enjoy watching their respective (E)sports).


Has no one ever heard of WCG?


It's not near the level of global respect as the Olympics are. Imagine medals for Esports, would be awesome ^^.
Comparing BW with SCII is like comparing a beautiful three-master sailing ship with a modern battlecruiser. Both are beautiful in their own way, both perform the same task, but they are worlds apart in how they are built and how they are steered.
Mallard
Profile Joined January 2010
United States129 Posts
August 04 2012 15:09 GMT
#460
On August 03 2012 07:30 aeroblaster wrote:
You put LoL up on that list but not Dota 2? mega hard fail dude


Did you watch the video? These are the three games specifically mentioned in it.
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