The Olympics Committee officially opens to eSport

It has been announces today that Intel, official partner of the Olympics commitee will organize an esport event called the Intel Extreme Masters of PeyongChang organized by ESL. It has been officially said that it will be a prelude to the OG 2018 in PyeongChang.

Timo Lumme, Tv services & marketing director of the Olympic commitee said that "After the olympic summit last week, the commitee is starting to explore futur links between electronic sports and the olympic spirit. This is a first step that will transform the futur of sports, and we can't wait to attend to this event."

I am happy to say that it has also been announced that there will be two games at this event: Starcraft 2, that brought South Corean at the top of esport countries; and the project we worked on at Ubisoft Annecy during the past few months, Steep: Road to the Olympics at it's a licensed for for these Olympics Events.

So seriously guys, don't be grumpy. It is a first step toward what we want. We know it will take time. It doesn't matter that they don't want violent game. That will whange. Let them welcome games into the Olympics whether it be Steep, Clash Royale or whatever. It's already a big deal. It means massive audience for games. We will bring competitive action games to those events but it will take time. For now, they probably still want to figure how to bring games for everyone and, by everyone I mean adults and their children and you know that games are still a problem for lots of people. Again, it's will be slow but let's be happy of these first steps.

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40 minutes ago, blackdog said: I don't understand what private matters and civil lawsuit spurred from family or off-the-court situations have to do with this?

Of course they get arrested etc that has nothing to do with the sport organisation.

Athletes attacking other players on the field face consequences, kng can take his rights to play elsewhere.

Of course if you look long and hard you can find ipocrocy, that is an everyday thing. I'm not saying the Olympics behold The Truth, just explained why I don't think there can be eSport in the event soon enough.

BTW this also should bring attention to the fact that a millennial game like Chess is not an Olympics discipline. Shouldn't they allow this in first? There is a Chess organisation that is part of the committee - so they recognise Chess as a sport (from what I understand) but then in countries like UK it is not recognised as a sport.

Well you could argue that the kng incident was private then since it wasn't during the match though... so private stuff matters from an ethical standpoint.

They face consequences sometimes, not all the time, and they are allowed to play anyway. For the fifa world cup example, the suspension was only for international games, he could still play in his club anyway.

Well it would happen in 2024 anyway, so it makes sense to think about it now to make the necessary debate beforehand.

(since when the uk agrees with the rest of the world anyway.? )

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4 hours ago, blackdog said: I understand what you mean but seems you are mixing things a bit; also I'm not sure/not confident regarding the examples you mentioned.

AFAIK Ron Artest had several fights, but on court. You mention sexual violence, but I've never heard of people suspended from games for that, and I can't even come up with examples of such cases. I know Kobe Bryant was accused of rape, there was a trial, and I don't remember ever hearing he was suspended... ever for what matters.

Of course ethics are important and there's stuff that is directly linkable to the sports scene and I can see sanctioned even if happened off court (eg: Michael Jordan doing betting on golf matches => concerns he would do the same for his games; Gilbert Arenas bringing a gun in the lockers; kng threatening a direct opponent) and stuff that is totally extraneous like a sex offence... that doesn't impact the sport image, just the team and can easily be seen as a good reason for termination, because you don't want to be associated with that person, but the sport federation shouldn't have any/much say on that.

There was tiger woods as well, he could still play anyway. Same for Kobe (I think he wasn't convicted as guilty? I'd have to check). That was my point. Unethical behaviors aren't punished in regular sports, so they cannot say e sports aren't suitable because of ethics.

I wonder if they're going to drug test them

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On 2017-11-05 at 3:41 PM, Buddy said: I wonder if they're going to drug test them

Yeah catch them on speed , Or snorting some Pre-Workouts