Was watching a news discussion about stupid past Olympic sports and possible new Olympic sports and it turns out that Starcraft II among other eSports are being considered for future Olympic games. League of Legends and yes even Tetris are among the considerations.
It is still highly unlikely as many sports are evaluated for Olympic events simply because they are nominated by enough people. For example I searched the forums and found this quickly closed nomination thread about getting Starcraft II in 2018 Olympics
Perhaps this was responsible for the official consideration.
Either way this is a pretty interesting little video to learn about some funny past Olympic sports and it got me thinking about what I'd like to see in future games so first here's a poll about the three games listed in this report
Poll: Which officially considered game would you wan't in the Olympics?
Starcraft II (1997)
84%
Tetris (221)
9%
League Of Legends (158)
7%
2376 total votes
Your vote: Which officially considered game would you wan't in the Olympics?
(Vote): Tetris (Vote): League Of Legends (Vote): Starcraft II
What other future sports would you like to see in the Olympics?
On August 03 2012 07:27 Cokefreak wrote: Tetris is the only hard game out of those 3 options.
You can't say either LoL or Sc2 has a difficulty, since you play an opponent and not a series of set challenges. I guess the same goes for Tetris though, since you try to beat other peoples high scores.
Dudes...If sculpting and town planning was an olympic sport, then starcraft 2 has an amazing chance!
EDIT: just finished watching the interview and that host sounds so @#$ biased and unwilling to even learn what the game is about, which is unfortunately just like 90% of the general public right now...I hope this changes when our generation starts to take over
anyone else not want esports in the olympics? all it's going to do is make people fight over whether or not video games should be in the olympics and i'm kinda tired of it
edit: haha just finished the video, if people dig on badminton (a legit sport), what do you think people will do on a video game
So Fox news tried to fill space and you think we need to have this discussion all over again?
IOC needs physical effort to take something as a sport (except of chess, it has a historic role). Olympia Bejing tried to put in esports, but they werent allowed This was discussed 10000 times on TL
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.
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