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On August 05 2012 00:00 hooberschmit wrote: She said "Badmitten." I will never respect this person now.
That's how it's uniformly pronounced in America. Do you have no respect for any Americans? You might have just not known that, since I didn't know there was a difference either until witnessing a surprised Canadian.
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I don't understand how game where rules change every couple months can be considered a sport and belong to Olympics.
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Didn't they try to get e-sport into the Beijing Olympics? I love esport, but I don't think the Olympics is for us.
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eSports in the Olympics...? Good joke.
And fuck LoL. I have an easier time playing that game than I do tying my shoes.
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On August 05 2012 00:06 Callynn wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2012 23:55 dark_dragoon10 wrote: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 ^^.
Of course it's not at the level of global respect as the olympics are. VIDEO GAMES in general are a niche culture. And they do give medals at wcg so I'm not sure what you're talking about. If you want the same amount of global respect for video gaming as physical sports which have been around for thousands of years...keep dreaming
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No to the idea and No, it is never going to happen.
We already have the World Cyber Games and it just feels the best model for an Olympic-like tournament.
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Videogames dont really belong in the olympics imo :/
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The day LoL becomes an olympic sport is the day being alive becomes an olympic sport.
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Oh please, Starcraft 2 for the Olympics? Might as well introduce football to the WCG.
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On August 05 2012 10:50 SworDgiRL239 wrote: The day LoL becomes an olympic sport is the day being alive becomes an olympic sport. As crappy as I think LoL is to watch, if you have the opinion that LoL is so easy, why are you here instead of making a ton of money playing it? It's got a great competitive scene and while it's not my sort of game (to play) and I can't understand how anybody would want to watch it, you can't deny that there must be skill involved, or people like you would be earning the big bucks playing LoL .
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Seriously, if they're gonna add video games to the olympics they need to go with BW
Edit: But really though, as much as I enjoy the scene people need to stop thinking they can equate Esports with physical sports
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Wow does it piss me off that the people in that video are all skeptical and dumb-founded and shit. Acting like they're better people.
"Tetris? That's sad."
Fuck you lady. Starcraft takes as much mental strength as any Olympic event takes physical, probably more. I wish I was born later, in a time when video games were accepted, instead of this bullshit with older generations of people acting like hot shit, treating video-games like children's toys.
Edit: I'm not saying that video games should necessarily be treated like other sports, I just wish people would be more open-minded.
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I don't really think the Olympics is the place for eSports. I feel like it'd lead to a weird, watered down tournament like how WCG is now viewed for SC2.
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On August 03 2012 07:27 Cokefreak wrote: Tetris is the only hard game out of those 3 options. ofcourse, its so easy you are the best in the world right?
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On August 05 2012 11:31 althaz wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2012 10:50 SworDgiRL239 wrote: The day LoL becomes an olympic sport is the day being alive becomes an olympic sport. As crappy as I think LoL is to watch, if you have the opinion that LoL is so easy, why are you here instead of making a ton of money playing it? It's got a great competitive scene and while it's not my sort of game (to play) and I can't understand how anybody would want to watch it, you can't deny that there must be skill involved, or people like you would be earning the big bucks playing LoL  .
i feel like its way more just pure knowledge than skill. I have no doubt that any current pro sc2 gamers would have an easier time playing LoL, especially foreign terrans because you dont need to multitask
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On August 05 2012 14:49 13JackaL wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2012 11:31 althaz wrote:On August 05 2012 10:50 SworDgiRL239 wrote: The day LoL becomes an olympic sport is the day being alive becomes an olympic sport. As crappy as I think LoL is to watch, if you have the opinion that LoL is so easy, why are you here instead of making a ton of money playing it? It's got a great competitive scene and while it's not my sort of game (to play) and I can't understand how anybody would want to watch it, you can't deny that there must be skill involved, or people like you would be earning the big bucks playing LoL  . i feel like its way more just pure knowledge than skill. I have no doubt that any current pro sc2 gamers would have an easier time playing LoL, especially foreign terrans because you dont need to multitask
I agree with that, every time I switch to LOL I suck because I have no idea what my hero does and have no idea what everyone else does while my friend dominates.
It's funny because I have something like 200 APM in LoL while all my friends have something like 20-40 and they are high rated xD
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it's silly and its never going to happen. you might as well throw programming competitions in there as well.
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On August 05 2012 00:42 frogrubdown wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2012 00:00 hooberschmit wrote: She said "Badmitten." I will never respect this person now. That's how it's uniformly pronounced in America. Do you have no respect for any Americans? You might have just not known that, since I didn't know there was a difference either until witnessing a surprised Canadian.
No it's not uniformly pronounced "Badmitten". That's how uneducated people on the east coast pronounce it.
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On August 05 2012 16:44 Groog wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2012 00:42 frogrubdown wrote:On August 05 2012 00:00 hooberschmit wrote: She said "Badmitten." I will never respect this person now. That's how it's uniformly pronounced in America. Do you have no respect for any Americans? You might have just not known that, since I didn't know there was a difference either until witnessing a surprised Canadian. No it's not uniformly pronounced "Badmitten". That's how uneducated people on the east coast pronounce it.
Funny, I vaguely recall being educated at some point. And on the west coast no less. And with people from vastly different parts of the country pronouncing it 'badmitten'. Though I wouldn't be surprised if there was somewhat more variation than I claimed despite having only ever met Canadians who pronounce it that way.
edit: And as a general rule, if what got from your education was a love for prescriptivist grammar and pronunciation, you might want to ask for you money back.
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On August 05 2012 01:27 garlicface wrote: eSports in the Olympics...? Good joke.
And fuck LoL. I have an easier time playing that game than I do tying my shoes. Maybe you're super talented. I hear there are big bucks. Go, take them.
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