While I love video games as much as the next person, Olympic Games represent popular games worldwide that involve physical athleticism. It's my first time hearing of bb-guns in the Olympics, but that does qualify, I suppose.

i don't like call of duty, but the game made 1 billion dollars in 15 days, that is pretty popular i'd say.

he said physical athleticism.

is it physically draining to shoot bb guns for you bentrey? I'm sorry i didn't mean to insult you.

chess doesnt even make the cut

wow i though chess would, the world we live in...

do you even lift your mouse?

Picture it... Harbleu on a wheaties box.

Video games can be competitive. But they're not a sport. The physical aspect isn't there. It's just not the same kind of dedication. I ran track at just a college level. Going out everyday to run and lift is a lot harder than scrimming and dming everyday. And I wasn't anywhere near Olympic levels. Video games are like sports in many ways, expect that the physical strain is taken away. Definitely should not be in the Olympics.

Harbleu's actually pretty physically fit for a neckbeard, so I could see it happening

BB gun falls into a similar category to archery, it's skill/precision based.

I don't think they consider being able to move your crosshair onto someone's model in the same tier as doing it for real though

oh hey it's this thread again

yeah except a bow is very serious and can injure or kill you, and it has a minimum poundage, it's a physically exerting activity.

what about having an international tournament for the most popular video game of each genre? if an organization did this would there be any push to form teams from each country or do you think it REALLY isn't that serious?

and i understand there was world series of video games on tv and stuff i watched some of them.

I don't necessarily disagree with you but the world would have to evolve a lot to accept video games into the olympics. There are a lot of stupid shit in the olympics, but they're things that people have accepted over the years as something that takes athletic talent. Ultimate isn't even a sport and yet I can guarantee it would be more physically draining to play a game of Ultimate at an olympic level. Much more so than curling (wtf is this srsly). But video games are too different from the physical realm for people to accept them into a competition where people do 3 back flips in the air and land on their toes.

Even though I'd say good aim in FPS games takes similar precision and hand-eye coordination you'd find in a good tennis player or something. Then again, Tyrone played tennis, so take that with a grain of salt.

so mean to tyrone

Don't worry, relic also played tennis

As someone pointed out, chess isn't even an Olympic sport. Chess is a sport, and it's one of the most difficult things in the world to master. If call of duty got into the Olympics over chess (or you know... And GOOD game) I'd hang myself.

Seriously tho, video games have no place in the Olympics. There is no physical athleticism involved. Do video games require skill, and lots of practice? Of course they do, but they just don't fit the bill as an Olympic sport in the same way that tennis wouldn't fit in ESEA. esports is growing, but it has a LONG way to go. The Koreans have really paved the way for us with the Starcraft scene, if we could reach that level with other games we could see esports finally get recognized as a legit "sport", but even then it still wouldn't fit the bill for the Olympics.

wcg, mlg, iem, dh, etc.

But none of those are televised pt. in Korea there are several actual television stations that broadcast Starcraft matches 24/7. The production value of the GSL is fucking mind blowing. We HAD that one league a few years ago that would be on TV but they went under.

I've wondered what it would be like to have provence/state based "esports" teams. or at least a regional bracket system of some sort. I understand that TF2 isnt exactly big enough to sustain something of that magnitude, but what about games like dota2 or SC2(refraining from saying league). Would the government actually support something like this, or would we need to fund it privately? Then again, it's just a thought.

Shooting a gun is an Olympic sport, something that requires no athleticism.

Holding a gun stable? Ability to aim? I mean yeah it doesn't need pull strength like archery but it does take skills that very dependent on being able to hold a gun as steady as possible.

Athletic tends to imply exertion, and fitness.

Makes you realize how stupid cyberathelete sounds.

PS what do you think about curling?

What about WCG????
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Cyber_Games
gogo tf2

That's just promising South Korea gold medals. South Korea wins everything.

south koreans win at everything that is an RTS
I don't think I've even ever heard of a south korean quake player