Hey gamers.

[Agent Proto]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/80094525c453169827fea277ce3b9717/tumblr_mpxljqZFV51rw70wfo1_500.png
Your thoughts on this?

[Denmark]

WE E-SPORTS NOW

professional competitors? sure. athletes? maybe not.

[Faris]

What? No gamers here.

[Pike]

[citation needed]

[Shlup]

They also recognize pizza as a vegetable so let's not get too excited.

[Sephex]

Sweet, I'm going to go beat up Mike Tyson.

[Pike]

They also recognize pizza as a vegetable so let's not get too excited.

AWESOME

YES

I AM MAXING OUT MY SERVINGS OF VEGETABLES EVERY DAY FROM NOW ON :hyper:

[Scotty_ffgamer]

US Government Recognizes League of Legends' LSC as Sport - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/12/us-government-recognizes-league-of-legends-lsc-as-sport?abthid=51e1f4f9c61d539709000005)

Here's a citation for it, I guess. I think it's cool that the process is made easier for people from outside of the US to come play in a video game tournament like this. I wouldn't call gaming a sport, but maybe classifying it as one for the acquisition of sports visas was just the easiest way to make the process of travelling easier. I don't really know how that sort of thing works, though.

[Raistlin]

Am I the only person who doesn't give a crap about whether a given competition is labeled a "sport" or not?


They also recognize pizza as a vegetable so let's not get too excited.

Pizza isn't a vegetable? Please, next you'll be telling me that bacon isn't one of the major food groups.

[DMKA]

Am I the only person who doesn't give a crap about whether a given competition is labeled a "sport" or not?
You most certainly aren't.

[NeoCracker]

This is by far one of the least strange things a government has tried to do.

This doesn't even come close to the DiHydrogen Monoxide shit. :p

[Venom65437]

LoL, there is nothing athletic about gaming. Not a sport.

[Jinx]

smh

i don't even

/long sigh

[Agent Proto]

This is also why chess is considered a sport.

[noxious.sunshine]

Monopoly should be considered a sport then.

Stuff gets competitive in my house when Monopoly is played.

[Pumpkin]

They also recognize pizza as a vegetable so let's not get too excited.

[Venom65437]

Dinner would be really competitive in my house growing up. As my dad said, "in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whoever eats the fastest, gets the most." :p

So I guess that's a sport, too!

[Araciel]

Lol 'sport'

[fire_of_avalon]

My thoughts on this are: "Are you fucking kidding me? Jesus."

[Pheesh]

Do you even Rift, bro?




...I'll leave u_u

[Vermachtnis]

Pizza isn't a vegetable? Please, next you'll be telling me that bacon isn't one of the major food groups.

It's not. It's a condiment.

[NeoCracker]

Do you even Rift, bro?



...I'll leave u_u

That's probably for the best.

[Pheesh]

Nvm, I got a rep. You're stuck with me now!

[NeoCracker]

I will found out whoever repped you and then proceed to tar and feather them.

[TrollHunter]

LoL, there is nothing athletic about gaming. Not a sport.

Completely depends on how you define sport.

[Shiny]

If by professional athletes you mean people with no lives who do nothing to contribute to society and sit on their butts playing games all day, then yeah.

[TrollHunter]

If by professional athletes you mean people with no lives who do nothing to contribute to society and sit on their butts playing games all day, then yeah.

Sounds like a good definition for professional athlete in general honestly.

[Pike]

US Government Recognizes League of Legends' LSC as Sport - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/12/us-government-recognizes-league-of-legends-lsc-as-sport?abthid=51e1f4f9c61d539709000005)

ahahahahahaha they could have at least picked a better game for this

as is I can't take it seriously though

[Aulayna]

The LCS is pretty damn huge in all honesty - it's not many other games that have an officially run league in their major territories with weekly matches in live broadcast shows. Bash LoL all you want but Riot have really done a better job of jumping on that opportunity than Blizzard or Valve have. There's really not that much that rivals it right now. Even StarCraft 2's World Championship Series isn't getting the viewership that the LCS is which is something to ponder considering how massive the original StarCraft eSports scene was in Korea which lead to the founding of KeSPA and pretty much put the likes of GomTV on the map.

As for the US classing them as athletes, it certainly solves a lot of permit/visa issues that organizers otherwise have to deal with. Just seems more like using a legal loophole to smooth the hosting of these events more than anything else.

[Pike]

Yeah but they could have at least picked a game like Aurora or something

http://imageshack.us/a/img225/4927/systemsv.jpg

I mean if chess is a sport then this is too

Stop being so sensible, Auly! :colbert:

[Aulayna]

Don't worry. I hear CIV VI: eSports Edition is coming soon™

[Pike]

Oh I'm going to lose that one hard

Those Civ IV grogs are something else entirely and I wouldn't even have a shot in hell

[Aulayna]

There was actually a TV show in the UK a fair few years back that re-enacted historical battles which they then displayed using the Total War engine. It was pretty cool.

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Commanders

[Shiny]

If by professional athletes you mean people with no lives who do nothing to contribute to society and sit on their butts playing games all day, then yeah.

Sounds like a good definition for professional athlete in general honestly.
Except not as other sports require you to actually move more than just your fingers.

[Pike]

Sports are for dudebros and boring normals

Therefore a videogame does not fit the definition because it's better

[Denmark]

man video games are so MAINSTREAM now

[Quindiana Jones]

If by professional athletes you mean people with no lives who do nothing to contribute to society and sit on their butts playing games all day run around in circles all day, then yeah.

Sounds like a good definition for professional athlete in general honestly.
Except not as other sports require you to actually move more than just your fingers.

[Rantz]

Do you even Rift, bro?




...I'll leave u_u

LoL, WoW. I know Ubisoft, man. You Myst not know the benefits of a-steroids. Let me Breakout my Pong and show you.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

If by professional athletes you mean people with no lives who do nothing to contribute to society and sit on their butts playing games all day, then yeah.

Sounds like a good definition for professional athlete in general honestly.
Except not as other sports require you to actually move more than just your fingers.

Dance Dance Revolution!

[Shiny]

If by professional athletes you mean people with no lives who do nothing to contribute to society and sit on their butts playing games all day, then yeah.

Sounds like a good definition for professional athlete in general honestly.
Except not as other sports require you to actually move more than just your fingers.

Dance Dance Revolution!
They're not recognizing that though, they are recognizing League of Legends which I play and attest is NOT a sport. I also play Chess and know it is also not a sport. I was always under the assumption that you have to exert considerable amount of physical movement for it to be considered a sport. If this isn't the case then a lot of really absurd things could also be consider sports if it's just done competitively.

[Quindiana Jones]

If you can call football a sport, then you can pretty much call anything a sport.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I was more meaning that there should be a DDR tournament, and it should become a sport. That's about the only game I can think of that really gives a workout while you play. I was feeling out of it and for some reason decided that typing "Dance Dance Revolution!" was enough to convey that, haha.

[TrollHunter]

I was more meaning that there should be a DDR tournament, and it should become a sport. That's about the only game I can think of that really gives a workout while you play. I was feeling out of it and for some reason decided that typing "Dance Dance Revolution!" was enough to convey that, haha.

Wii bowling.

[Laddy]

This is embarrassing, tbh.

[Jiro]

Friend of mine once said Poker is a sport because it is a thing that people do professionally for money.

I guess Lawyering is a sport now too.