Video Games as an Olympic sport
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http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/31/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm?cnn=yes
A Game competition League is lobbying china to make Video Games a competitive sport in the 2008 Olympics,bloody unlikely it will occur but interesting none the less.
A Game competition League is lobbying china to make Video Games a competitive sport in the 2008 Olympics,bloody unlikely it will occur but interesting none the less.
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Video game competition is about who has the best reaction speed. The best reflexes and coordination.
I don't see why it WOULDN'T make a good olympic sport.
my point being that DDR doesnt really reward good reflexes or any kind of skill... sure the reflexes get challenged in the beginning but it always comes down to memorization. If they formulated new songs for each match that nobody could practice beforehand... then I'd accept it as an olympic "sport".
Video games require so much less physical work, that the sheer amount of entries and applicants would be impossible to organize, not including the randomness of the conditions in certain games. I used to play fighting game tournaments all the time, and they are widely unfair and random, untill you get to the 10 of 5000 that actually have the skill to compete and adapt. If you understand, hard to explain that.
...there has to be some prerequisite for olympic sports...
[/ QUOTE ]Didn't there used to be an 'embargo' on sports that were deamed to be too 'commercial'. I remember Tennis had a problem, hockey, football and a few of the other heavily sponsored sports when they tried to join the Oy-limpics