Should e-sports become an Olympic sport?

What exactly does curling have in common with competitive gaming?

Anyways, no it should not.

Seeing how it's not a fucking sport, hell no

Prepare for a long ass debate about sports obsessed people saying "its not a sport" .... but then chess being included.

Not that I think any game touches chess.

but still.

e-sport is an esport. its a niche... I cant comprehend why people like watching curling... or hell even football, but they do... in droves.

Esports is now been corrupted primarily as advertizement and little else. A PR gimmick.

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Starcraft 2 is pretty fun to watch competively

Olympics are based on old fashioned sports with a few new ones included. I think it's a slap in the face to considere e-sports in the same arena as real sports.

The closest thing you have is Wii Sports, and you might have an argument there.

No...it's not a sport, it's not even a physical activity

It's a much more interesting "sport" than the majority of the mainstream sports so yeah sure, why not.

Why not have an e-sports olympics rather than trying to shoe horn it in somewhere it doesn't belong?

LOL. It's not even a sport.

Wii Sports is a sport, sorry to spoil the fun.

I'd love to see this at the Olympics.

Why does a sport have to be an athletic activity?, even then you could consider gaming as a hand/finger-athletics :P

What you're on about? I love curling!

LOL. No it's not. Waggling your arms doesn't equal a sport.

Definitely not, much less as a sport for the Olympics.

Tell that to swimmers and boxers etc. etc. it's all a whole lotta waggling if you break it down.

You should see the disabled swimming :D

that would be a matter of discussion for the international olympic committee

besides. the olympics are sanctioned by WADA for anti-doping, which is unnecessary for esports.

Yeah but those take actually physical skills. Wii sports is not even 1 to 1 motion.

It's all physical. Hell even flappy bird is a helluva finger workout.

There could be like a brain-olympics with Poker, Chess, e-sports and so on. Not that I would watch it though lol.

because you'd be too busy winning all the events mate?

Half the garbage in the olympics aren't sports either

@Snugenz:

You aren't serious?

Indeed, shooting is an Olympic sport and that's just pulling a trigger...

@Wild_man_22: You need to be more specific?

Um

Do you realize that you can watch the actual sports represented in Wii Sports at the olympics? Boxing's an olympic sport, tennis is an olympic sport, golf will be at the next summer olympics

Taking a look at some of the Olympic sports... And also the things that are considered a sport outside of gaming...

I have to say I love the ironic hypocrisy from sports purists lol

This. lol @ the nerdy ass gamers always looking for acceptance.

Looks at sig...

...yeah.

Problem? I see games and sports there.

the word "sport" has been redefined many times, that's why stuff like poker is now considered a sport and not just a game like monopoly. These days anything where 2 or more people compete with a set of rules in place and minimal "luck" factor it's considered a sport.

So you're not a nerdy ass gamer because you like some sports?, good one.

couldn't stop laughing through the entire video and still laughing while writing this. XD

No. It's not a sport.

No, I consider myself a nerd, just not a nerdy ass gamer looking for acceptance.

Poker is not a sport. Just because it's on ESPN doesn't make it a sport

Acceptance, who's looking for acceptance?.

Absolutely not

The general public. Some gamers just can't live with slights against their hobby, and so are desperately always looking for approval by the athletic or artistic community. Gamers that can't recognize that they're just playing with toys are a sad bunch.

That's a fairly backwards way of thinking in fairness, considering that the definitions of both toys and sports are changing constantly.

Maybe in the brain-paralympics :).

E-sport is such a drag to watch to me. I'd take any sport in the current Olympics (even curling) over it.

There's no athletic element, so no no no.

Uh huh, lol. If that sort of thinking helps you feel comfortable about playing games, more power to you.

I don't need anything to feel comfortable about playing games, as a gamer it's kinda what i do with my spare time but it seems that you do need a safety net of sorts "i'm a gamer but i like sports aswell so that makes it ok" kinda thing, but yeah keep on truckin. Don't let them toys get ya down.

Chess isn't at the olympics either though. It's also one single game with one single set of rules and relies purely on strategy to win.

Games are not one single thing, there's tens of thousands of them, you'd have to select individual games to be classed as sports, not just "gaming" as a whole.

At least there is balance and a little fitness involved in curling. Try doing the sweeping, on ice, as fast as they do, as long and precise as they do. I haven't seen one obese curling, Olympian. I know two obese gamers, and I love them, but man, get outside folks. Plus where does gaming go? Summer or Winter?