Esports are Too Violent for Olympics

I would have to quit my job and probably sell my kids to even achieve 25 hours of gaming a week. 50 is nuts.
Out of work, living alone and looking for a job I managed about 6 hours a day playing video games. If I were a professional I'd treat it like a job and limit myself to 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. These days as a responsible adult I can only manage 1-2 hours a day, though I recently had a 10 hour marathon this past weekend from 8 at night to 6 in the morning.
 
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my post was mostly a joke. However, i as a single guy with a full time job can get up to 50+ hours at times. There are 168 hours in a week. Looking at 45 hours for work (8+1 hour lunch), driving 1 hour round trip and sleeping about 6 hours a day still gives around 75 hours left for games or other things. During the weekend i can sleep less and game more.

like somebody else said when gaming is your job 50 hours is nothing then.
 
hahaha are you serious? that was gladiator shit not the Olympics.. the Olympic games were a religious event held in Olympia(thus the name) for Zeus.

Yes, I am serious. Look it up. The original Olympics were really violent with lots of blood and death. The participants were warriors for the various citystates and were there to win, not for some sort of sportsmanship.
 
Yes, I am serious. Look it up. The original Olympics were really violent with lots of blood and death. The participants were warriors for the various citystates and were there to win, not for some sort of sportsmanship.
It seems like you're confusing something you read/heard somewhere because sirmonkey is correct. In fact, I just spent about 10 minutes reading a variety of sources since you seemed so sure even going so far as challenging sirmonkey to "look it up." What you may be confused about is that, while wars were brewing among the various city-states at the time, and those battles could spill into Ancient Greece during the Olympic games (not to mention fighting over controlling/hosting the games), that doesn't mean the games were violent and bloody. If you go to a soccer game pretty much anywhere else in the world other than US, the fans can get unruly as an understatement if not explicitly violent--but that doesn't turn soccer itself into a violent game.

Regardless, it's nearly mind-numbing that people can't differentiate the violence exhibited between a javelin throw and a counter-strike comp. They're not even comparable and, while a lot of people might be ok with taking their children to watch people shooting people (pixels, I s'pose) millions are not. Given that the Olympics is a family/cultural event, the official arm of the Olympics are not going to promote that kind of behavior. Just kinda unbelievable that this is a point of contention even if the original games were full of violence 2,000 years ago.
 
On the other hand I dont think eSports should be in the olympics, nor do I think they are sports. I really wish professional gaming would just die, worst thing for the hobby ever.

I agree but I sort of feel the same way about some other things that are widely considered "sports". Golf for example requires very little physical exertion but plenty of skill, much like gaming. You could argue a game like DDR (which granted isn't exactly the most popular esport) has a stronger claim of being a sport than Golf does.
 
But people only watch Olympic hockey for the fights.
I'm Canadian so I beg to differ.

Not that I care for the modern scummy Olympics committee.

Agreed. For the same reason I wouldn't include Chess in the Olympics. The Olympics are about physical ability--strength, endurance, agility, speed.
I could see comparing Golf to a twitchy mouse, not that Golf should be in either.




Too much violence just sounds like a cop-out, they could always do mario speed runs or something.

They should bring the gymnós tradition back to the Olympics, you know to make sure they're not hiding any cheating devices ;)
 
You could argue a game like DDR (which granted isn't exactly the most popular esport) has a stronger claim of being a sport[…]
One could, and should, argue that DDR is a style of dance and enter it from that angle. On a related note, breakdancing is going to be included in this year's Youth Olympics.

As for boring sports, there are all kinds but they are well-established, having stood the test of time, so it's pointless to insult them.
Newcomers seem to always have to prove themselves to the established order.
The Olympics, one of our global ancient traditions, is not going to be any different and anyone expecting it to be is expecting it to be something it won't.

Too much violence just sounds like a cop-out, they could always do mario speed runs or something.
Once a general category is created, the Olympics would have to be careful when discriminating based on content. That's one of the strengths of entering types of video games in the appropriate sport category, such as, DDR in a dancing event, Mario in a race event, etc.
 
The Olympics, one of our global ancient traditions
Well ancient Greek tradition, not so much global till the late 19th/early 20th century.

Once a general category is created, the Olympics would have to be careful when discriminating based on content. That's one of the strengths of entering types of video games in the appropriate sport category, such as, DDR in a dancing event, Mario in a race event, etc.
I was more of making a joke, I'm likely on the side of not adding e-"sports" to the Olympics.
 
Its a contest but it's not a sport. It's about as much a sport as chess. Is chess in the Olympics, yet?
 
50 hours a week doesn't include a job as well, I assume. Its no different than an 8 hour work day with a 1 hour drive. Lots of people do it every week for their adult lives. These professional gamers will only be able to do it for a few years before their reflexes degrade and new 18 year old kids outscore them. I don't see the big deal, unless they have to hold down a 9-5 job in addition.
 
I see no old school EQ players are here if 50 hours a week is too much.

/twitches from the flashback of camping the giant in S Ro for Jboots and many other camps also

Two decades later and I’ve still got PTSD from Guk trains and such :p
 
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