Petition With Worldwide Support Pushes For eSports To Join Olympics

Video games have become more socially acceptable in the past ten years or so, and as a very social person I love that, but every once in a while something embarassing like this happens that makes me want to pretend I don't know what a nintendo is.

Honestly, No, I understand there is a market for Professional gaming but the concept in general is flawed for many reasons but I don't feel like explaining right now due to just coming back from work.

I'm sorry but I don't consider gaming a sport, like I don't consider chess a sport, but an activity. I think the term Sport is too generic nowadays.
I also think gimnastics shouldn't be in the Olympics by the way.

Bwahahaha. No.

The Olympic Games are an athletic competition. Competitive video gaming has no place among its other events. Yes, pro gaming requires intelligence, strategy, team work, mental dexterity and fast reaction time, but not a drop of actual athleticism.

This is almost as dumb as that movement trying to get Poker in the Olympics. POKER, a damned card game that's more luck than skill, and even LESS athleticism than video games.

Yeah, I don't think it should happen for the reasons stated above. Plus one of the reasons baseball and softball are not in the Olympics is because of low interest, outside of the Americas and Asia. The same would be true for video games.

No, and no. It's an insult to the people who train hard for years. I don't think they would appreciate a fat 600 pound man eating cheetos and clicking away on his mouse then getting a gold Olympic medal. It is just completely wrong in every way.

I actually thought it was going to be games that involves physical activity such as using The Kinect, Wii and Playstation Move. Believe me I'll kick your ass in tennis and golf on Kinect Sports: Season 2. Then I read it just video games in general. No thanks, I don't consider NASCAR a sport and I won't consider this a sport. It could good for competitions, but given the title as "sport" is not how I feel.

It's not like every event in the Olympics requires peak physical fitness. With enough practice, just about anyone can be an Olympic-caliber shooter.

So because some events are not athletic we should add more that aren't? No thanks.

Even if it were kinect games that's stupid.

2000 votes worldwide? Is that even worth mentioning?

hahahah NOPE

I wasn't arguing for either side. I just meant it's possible based on the fact that no all events require purely athletic qualities in their competitors.

And I laughed at the "over 2000 signatures worldwide," too. I think that's roughly .000000002% of the global population.

I'm pretty sure the definition of sports would rule out video games...I don't even...

considering that genetically enhanced cyborgs will be competing in all of the olympic events in the coming years, then watching a bunch of pasty white kids controlling genetically enhanced cyborgs in their video games vs. the real thing wouldn't make much of a difference.

Glad to see most people feel the same way as me on this. This really seems like a joke and gamers asking to be in the Olympics just makes all gamers look embarrassingly bad

["It sure would be a lot more interesting to watch some high APM and micro than men in tights flinging themselves around an arena."]

Maybe to you. But unless I'm hanging out with friends and/or playing multiplayer, watching someone else gaming would be *incredibly* dull to me.

Then again, watching actual sports doesn't interest me much either, and I completely ignored the Olympics for precisely that reason. So I guess I wouldn't really care if this happened.

On another note, ooooo, the petition has been signed by 2000 whole people. Out of a population of how many billions?

the asians would always win anyway

Just forgot how dumb this is, the other problem is that there are four years between Olympics. You start your training with CoD Modern Warfare and guess what? By the time the Olympics roll around, you're on to CoD Black Ops II or whatever new iteration there is. There is so much change in these games, and although, yeah the mechanic basically stays the same (move sticks, press trigger, shoot guy), people argue left and right about how good one iteration is over another. You train on Battlefield, and the Olympic sport is curveball Ghost Recon or whatever. Or, we can watch people play outdated games and marvel at how stupid this is.

I completely forgot about the timeframe between the next Olympics. Thumbs up for you!

Good point. Video games always change every few years or even months. What was a good tactic then may be considered unfair now. The Olympic games hardly ever change.