http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/30615525

Why don't they have their own Video Games olympics instead.

what next tidly winks, darts, sleeping

[edit] LOL I thought of a contest they could have 'how long you can wiggle a joystick for' and this reminds me of an old C16 game called olympiad, it had a 10,000M race, and good god, my hand nearly fell off, that race took a long long long time to complete.

Wow, I'm totally shocked a game designer would be the one to come up with that idea....

I'm more shocked that one of them could come up with this :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWUgTNYK7Tk

Darts has been suggested in the past for Olympic recognition, and it looks like there's a chance it might get in eventually (article). If it does, then I think having PC games at the Olympic games is quite reasonable.

Already happened ages (over 10years?) ago in Korea.
Does the StarCraft TV channel still run? Most likely.
Is was bigger than any other sport there.

At topic: Please not.
If you start with stuff like this, nitting and crocheting would have a right to be olympic too just like everything else that needs a lot of skill and discipline.

They should rather throw out the asian martial arts and put in longsword fencing, dagger, etc... instead, this whole thing was supposed to be European originally, I was shocked already when they seriously thought about removing the most likely oldest of the original disciplines (wrestling).

It's a worldwide celebration of sports, and it would be quite contrary to that intention to make it more European.

eSports is getting bigger than the Olympics. Don't offend eSports by wishing it to be in the Olympics.

So should masturbating.

World wide as in: People from everywhere can participate.
The origin is as European as it gets.

Don't you think, that it's strange so many of the Asian martial arts are there (due to their popularity because of movies and more present visibility) while the equally old European ones are not?
Zeus wouldn't approve of this.

The origin doesn't matter. It's like you're making a worldwide music festival and saying "everyone can play as long as they're playing classical music."

So? This is quite common.
There could be a comparable event for Asian sports too (although I don't know of a similar tradition) and I would be fine with a really international one too, but having mostly Asian martial arts in a traditionally European event is just wrong.
When they wanted to remove wrestling while keeping judo it was clear that it's yet another example of European traditions vanishing more and more because they don't really give a damn about culture while others do.
It's my right to see this as rather sad.

I almost broke two joysticks playing games like Summer Games 1-2, Winter Games, World Games and Track & Fields on my mighty C64! :-)

Your post also reminds me of an episode of "Undergrads":

▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL0GDiC6byo
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omkgr1pn_nM

was on the news and I went 0_0 nice gl on that and would be sick to see something like a big sport for gaming worldwide

Competition on high level makes everything more serious than it needs to be and ruins the fun so I hope it doesn't happen. Video games are too much associated with eSports as it is, I rather see it going in a very different direction like experimental art or utilized in education on a global scale.