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IAmWithStupid
Russian Federation1016 Posts
Russian Ministry of Sports issued an official directive that E-Sports is now included in the list of officially recognized disciplines. It has it's own unique code now. 1240002411M. More importantly this directive means that athletes will be able to receive ranks:
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Xiphias
Norway2223 Posts
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37063 Posts
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Kaizor
Singapore909 Posts
Edit* Just saw news about him being retired in his fanclub thread. So maybe not that happy. | ||
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intotheheart
Canada33091 Posts
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IAmWithStupid
Russian Federation1016 Posts
On June 09 2016 00:49 IntoTheheart wrote: Would this change getting visas to play in Russian tournaments for foreign nationals, or has that traditionally not been an issue with Russia? First of all, there are not many off-line tournaments to start with, but yes, it would help. However, it is usually easy to get a visa to Russia. You know, it's easy to come to Russia, getting out - that's tricky  | ||
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seom
South Africa491 Posts
tomorrow LGBT rights? | ||
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TelecoM
United States10700 Posts
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HsDLTitich
Italy831 Posts
On June 09 2016 00:49 Kaizor wrote: Happy must be real happy about it. Edit* Just saw news about him being retired in his fanclub thread. So maybe not that happy. Awesome timing :D | ||
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NinjaToss
Austria1383 Posts
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Dav1oN
Ukraine3164 Posts
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WonnaPlay
Netherlands912 Posts
On June 09 2016 01:30 cSc.Dav1oN wrote: hope that won't turn into another corruption scandal wow, such an useless and random statement.... Ontopic : This is pretty awesome eventhough in reality there won't change that much! | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
.Poll: What is it? eSports (11) e-Sports (9) esports (5) E-Sports (5) e-sports (1) E-sports (1) Esports (0) 32 total votes Your vote: What is it? (Vote): e-Sports I don't care about the hyphen, but I don't see how the capital S can make sense. | ||
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IAmWithStupid
Russian Federation1016 Posts
On the other hand, we simply don't have tournaments. Probably because of high organizational costs. Well, if I had 10^6 USD, I would make a really cool tournament rather than spend everything on booze/coke/... I really hope to see some SCll references in Korea-2022. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On June 09 2016 01:43 IAmWithStupid wrote: As you may remember 3-time champion (WCG / Need for speed) Alan Enileev carried the Olympic flag during opening ceremony in Sochi. So, Russian officials actually treated E-Sports well. On the other hand, we simply don't have tournaments. Probably because of high organizational costs. Well, if I had 10^6 USD, I would make a really cool tournament rather than spend everything on booze/coke/... I really hope to see some SCll references in Korea-2022. We need another DH Moscow! | ||
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IAmWithStupid
Russian Federation1016 Posts
Nice one! Let's decide once and for all and I'll edit all my posts after that. | ||
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Penev
28516 Posts
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Elentos
55566 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On June 09 2016 01:45 IAmWithStupid wrote: @Musicus Nice one! Let's decide once and for all and I'll edit all my posts after that. I mean it's just for fun, since in the end we don't get to decide I guess. The media gets to decide I think, but it's stupid that when I go to espn esports, even they can't decide how to write it. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/EHr7A5D.png) And right above that they use Esports . | ||
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Khalum
Austria831 Posts
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