It makes sense. You could have the e1500m with a fat American kid sitting in his basement trouncing the best Kenya has to offer. It might bring back the glamour to the blue ribband event and get young people engaged in the sport again.
It makes sense. You could have the e1500m with a fat American kid sitting in his basement trouncing the best Kenya has to offer. It might bring back the glamour to the blue ribband event and get young people engaged in the sport again.
A meeting of leading stakeholders from the Olympic Movement has concluded that competitive esports "could be considered as a sporting activity".
This is because the "players involved play with an intensity which may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports".
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1057203/esports-take-big-step-towards-olympic-recognition
My buddy spoke at an ncaa meeting this week at ucla. The ncaa wants to add and take control of esports immediately. $$$$. They sell out arenas unlike cheap boring distance running. We bring nothing to the table.
isthisajoke wrote:
It makes sense. You could have the e1500m with a fat American kid sitting in his basement trouncing the best Kenya has to offer. It might bring back the glamour to the blue ribband event and get young people engaged in the sport again.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/41790148
Unlikely. USA sucks at esports as well. Perhaps better than Kenia tho
For a second I thought that said "escorts to be included..." ...oh well.
Not everything needs to be an olympic sport. Esports have their own competitons and if they want to make a every 4 year world championship with competitors from all the nations, they can do that. If esports gets in, why don't chess, art competitions, and auto racing as well?
Problem with E sports is that the games change frequently. The longest played ones are 5-10 years old. Eventually another game become popular.
I'm currently seeking venture capital for my revolutionary distance-running-simulator. Will some generous lrunners help me out in what could well be the Super Mario of sports-games?
I've always felt that if you can smoke a cigarette while doing the activity, then shouldn't be in the Olympics. So golf, racecar driving, video games, baseball.
US colleges will recruit Koreans instead of Kenyans.
hvdehgv wrote:
US colleges will recruit Koreans instead of Kenyans.
LOL
I am not a fan of computer games, and just don't get it (age thing? gay thing?).
However, the Olympics at one time had an arts section (from like 1912? to 1948, I think) so you could win the gold medal in poetry if you were good. I just remember this because some guy won a gold medal in shooting and a gold medal in painting (or something...).
I'd like to see doping controls for esports.
All the asian kids who grew up in internet cafes will demolish. Again, America will take another L.
Play GTA 4 and you'll love games.
If nothing else, the art Olympics makes for some fascinating trivia. Did you know, for instance, that Walter Winans, a Russian aristocrat with American citizenship, was the only Olympian to win medals in sporting and arts competition? In 1912, he won silver for team USA in the shooting event “Team Running Deer—Single Shot” and gold in sculpture for his work An American Trotter.
Architecture
The 1928 Olympic Stadium, designed by Jan Wils, won the gold medal in architecture at the 1928 Olympics.
Until the Amsterdam Games in 1928, the architectural competition was not divided into categories. The 1928 games introduced a town planning category. However, the division was not always clear, and some designs were awarded prizes in both categories.
Entries in this category were allowed to have been "published" before the Olympics. A notable example of this is the 1928 gold medal for architecture awarded to Jan Wils for his design of the Olympic Stadium used in the same Olympics.
Literature
The literature competitions were divided into a varied number of categories. Until 1924 and again in 1932, there was only a single literature category. In 1928, separate categories were introduced for dramatic, epic, and lyric literature. Awards in these categories were also presented in 1948, while the drama category was dropped in 1936.
Entered works were limited in length (20,000 words) and could be submitted in any language, provided they were accompanied by English and/or French translations or summaries (rules varied over the years).
Music
A single event for music was held until 1936, when three categories were introduced: one for orchestral music, one for instrumental music, and one for both solo and choral music. In 1948, these categories were slightly modified into choral/orchestral, instrumental/chamber, and vocal music.
The juries often had trouble judging the pieces, which were entered on paper. Possibly related to the problematic judging, juries frequently decided to award only a few prizes. On two occasions, no award was given out at all (in the 1924 music category and in the 1936 instrumental music category).
1936 marked the only occasion when the winning musical works were actually played before an audience.
Painting
As with the other art forms, a single painting category was on the program until 1928, when it was split out into three sub-categories: drawings, graphic arts, and paintings. The categories then changed at each of the following Olympic Games. In 1932, the three categories were: paintings, prints, and watercolors/drawings. Four years later, the prints category had disappeared, and had been replaced by graphic arts and commercial graphic art. At the final Olympic art competition, the three categories were applied arts and crafts, engravings/etchings, and oils/water colours.
Sculpture
The sculpture class had only a single category until 1928, when two separate competitions were designated; one for statues and one for reliefs and medals. In 1936, this was split up further, separating reliefs and medals into their own categories.
Just stop if you are trying to compare esports to art.
If anything, chess should be an event. More skill, more interesting, more difficult, more an art form.
Karl Hungus wrote:
I am not a fan of computer games, and just don't get it (age thing? gay thing?).
Well, since you asked...
gaming culture privileges cisgender and heterosexual men, it consequently serves to perpetuate the oppression of “those who may not fit this mold.”
This study utilizes semiotic phenomenology as a method of inquiry to describe the lived experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) gamers (gaymers). I begin by discussing my issues with the current gaming literature, arguing that the gamer community is a space that privileges cis, heterosexual, and hypermasculine men while oppressing those who may not fit this mold. I discuss the shortcomings of the current literature that attempts to critically look at race and gaming, noting that race in the gaming community is still portrayed as secondary. I focus special attention to how this space allows for more inclusion than the larger gamer and LGBTQ communities while also critiquing those whom this space privileges. Through interviews of members of the local gaymer organization, the Phoenix Gaymers, I discuss ways in which the gaymer community is more inclusive and conscious of others but still follows forms of what I describe to be gaymer privilege. I focus on gaymer privilege within the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, where I argue from the phenomenological descriptions, reductions, and interpretations that there are still overt issues of sexism and transphobia as well as implicit issues of white privilege. While I describe the issues that are found within the Phoenix Gaymers, I also attempt to provide suggestions for change within the organization as well as in academic scholarship to create more awareness and inclusion for female, transgender, genderqueer, and queer people of color gaymers.
I've been out of the closet since those people have been sucking air, and I don't get gaming. That's a crap thesis.
