Why though. I love competitive gaming and I love watching the athleticism of Olympic competitions... But they're very different things! Why do we need to combine everything?
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Soon to come: cable tv package with sport commentary and headline events on a few channels and about 10 more channels of round the clock esport qualifiers.
Because money.
Gotta lift a different issue here.
There are other Olympics event that can be directly traced as product placement?
Because, let's assume that the esport picked is Fortnite... wouldn't be the whole event a big ads for Epic (I am sure they would also put big money to lobby hard in this)?
Olympics are expected to promote products with ads, billboards and whatever... but the event itself?
Thoughts like that is what will prevent idiocracy from happening and I'm not sure I don't want to see the real world version of that.
Considering how dedicated teams have to be just in their regular tournament schedules, if there's no prize pool to make it worth while I'm not sure the ioc will get a good turnout.
It might be the first time the IOC is hosting a tournament where the athletes are the ones getting paid, instead of the committee members. Like you, I have my doubts one way or another.
I have zero problem with competitive gaming. I have zero problem with huge money making tournaments where teams win lots of money and have managers, etc....
But come up with a different name than "sport". Because it's not a sport. Just because you put an "E" in front of it doesn't make it a sport by any definition of the word.
Chess tournament...not a sport. Spelling Bee....not a sport. Highschool Debate Team....not a sport. Bingo...not a sport.
Be competitive. Have fun. Make some money. But for fuck's sake, you're not a "sport" any more than any of the other things I listed are.
Edit: I forgot to add probably the most obvious Analogy....Poker Tournaments. Because every time I say "not a sport", someone rears up their head to say "well actually, esports involves a lot of concentration and sitting for extended periods of time, which is tiring and exertion...so it's just like any other sport".
To which I say, first: Shut up, nerd. And second, Poker tournaments involve the same amount of concentration and exertion and no one is calling that a fucking sport.
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Isn't that what they said about figure skating/ synchronized swimming/ artistic gymnastics etc in the beginning?