EPTStarcraft II Considered For Future Olympics - Page 31
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SpikeStarcraft
Germany2095 Posts
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LeafMeAlone
United States301 Posts
And what will happen when new games come out? The rules in the olympic sports generally stay the same for each sport. | ||
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Martyrc
217 Posts
On August 06 2012 03:05 Cofo wrote: If purely non-physical sports were to start getting added to the olympics, I would imagine something like chess or go would happen long before video games. The difference lies in the fact that you DO need physical prowess and accuracy for e-sports, you don't for Chess or go. | ||
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Kaitlin
United States2958 Posts
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Seldentar
United States888 Posts
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Hacksaw11
Australia359 Posts
I know that in 2016 we have Rio De Janerio.... | ||
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targ
Malaysia445 Posts
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VictorJones
United States235 Posts
 Although, I don't think we would have to think very hard to figure out which country would take home the gold :x | ||
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Garhf
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mjuuy
Norway506 Posts
On August 16 2012 15:22 Garhf wrote: If Starcraft II becomes an Olympic game, do you think this include 2v2/3v3/4v4 games? or just 1v1? What about the olympic village, which sport jockeys are the most likely to sleep with the starcraft nerds? jock+nerd genes = ??? new age of video games? Pinoy... are you serious? Ofc 1v1 | ||
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Cyclone999
Canada331 Posts
(if Blizzard just doesn't do their own thing) | ||
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Garhf
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nanaoei
3358 Posts
starcraft is less timeless than a lot of traditional sports and it's difficult for the cyberathlete to stay relevant in his e-sport without playing full-time competitive.. and when they have less incentive to play at a certain level (below the tip-top) for as long as many of the olympic athletes do. | ||
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Doc Daneeka
United States577 Posts
the reason that i think chess and go and poker should be allowed into the olympics before starcraft is that they're well established over centuries to be great classic games (maybe not poker? i don't follow it so i don't know anything about its history). electronic is a new medium for games to be built with, but after centuries the essence of a real time strategy game will be distilled down to a very fine-tuned balance, which starcraft and warcraft will have been large influences on. i think in a few centuries computer games will have been around long enough to have standardized accepted 'rules' for some particular types of game and it's possible a version of the real time strategy game, played on a computer, will be chosen as the obvious balanced standard version to be included in the olympics. provided 'games' make it into the olympics ever at all. | ||
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Garhf
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CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11568 Posts
Go to a bar and watch the olympics. You'll be cheering and screaming like everyone else in no time! | ||
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PhillyWild
United States59 Posts
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Mr Showtime
United States1353 Posts
On August 16 2012 07:24 SpikeStarcraft wrote: As long as chess doesnt make it to the olympics i see no chance at all for any esport at the olympics. Exactly, and it shouldn't. If any "game" were allowed into the Olympics, chess would be the first. It may be called the Olympic Games, but it's really the Olympic Athletic Events. | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On August 03 2012 07:32 StateofReverie wrote: #1 starcraft 2 #2 tetris #3 pokemon handicap olympics (olympics ez mode) #1 lol #2 tic tac toe #3 wow Pokemon has way too much variance to be a decent competitive game, at least on a scale that matters. I don't think Tetris deserves to be an Olympic title either, due to the fact it's a completely fixed set of challenges you can actually beat with muscle memory. Starcraft 2 doesn't even deserve to be up there, for several reasons, the most important of which being that it has constant international competition already, so the Olympics wouldn't even be anything special. With every other sport, you generally only see an international competition of that magnitude once very few years at World Championships and the Olympics itself. With SC2, there are international tournaments daily. LoL for the same reason isn't that high on my list of Olympic titles. I honestly don't see them adding any games any time soon and I'm fine with that. The Olympics is rapidly becoming the preserving body of archaic traditions (really, who the hell else gives a fuck about badminton, gymnastics, etc.), the new tradition is available to the masses on demand with constant updates rather than every 4 years, and I much prefer that model. | ||
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
Out of the three, I'd rather have LoL though | ||
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