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It appears that the United States’ recent move to allow League of Legends players to be considered as pro athletes has spurred the International Olympic Committee to also include League of Legends as an official Olympic sport.
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Do you think LoL is worth being a Olympic Game Sport? Yes? or No?
I bet asian player will be more aggressive if this will be put as an Olympic Sport. Just sayin'.
video game for a olympic sport? makes no sense
I do see most LCS players as professionals, but the Olympics kind of go to far to me.
Olympic games shouldn't be games in chairs.
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Originally Posted by CookiesAndMilk
I agree. If so, they would be called para-olympics.Quote:
Originally Posted by StephanM
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I could see competitive strategizing as a Olympic sport but no way they just need to keep LoL in a lower competitive standard than the Olympic Games.
ye. however, if any game would ever be considered as an olympic sport.. lets take gunz vs league, do you think it should be gunz.. (gladiator 1v1s, dueling 1v1s, cw's) or LoL? ... Tbh i think gunz could take a lot more skill, it just needs a lot of modifying to be a more solid game that all ur training is actually used... or at least most of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CookiesAndMilk
No lol.
GunZ is way easier then League of Legends.Quote:
Originally Posted by DDaggerDD
ROFL? Stephan No... league only needs qwer df and mouse oh and 123456 while gunz for newcomers is way harder... no one can learn k style right off the bat..Quote:
Originally Posted by StephanM
The only reason they did this was for publicity and travel expenses. The only reason it was accepted due to the "Everything is becoming more technological" reasoning.
My viewpoint:
LOL, it's just a game calm down.
Look at the fanbase, look at the prize money, look at the people watching streams. LoL LCS has more followers then 50% of the olympic sports.
Sports requires training, teamwork and a whole bunch of those elements, e-sport requires just as much, maybe on a different platform, but it should be an Olympic sports.
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Originally Posted by StephanM
... fail.
A 350 pound fat **** who sits in a chair for 20 hours a day and never sees the light of day can quality for the olympics?
Not saying all LoL players are like this.. just giving an example.
Olympics has always been about athletics .-. This is such a downer.
It would be okay for there to be a "World League of Legends Championships", but why put this in the olympics?
The term "e-sports" is truly so ****ing retarded.
The reason why they consider it as an OFFICIAL sport is because A LOT of people have migrated to the United Stated of MERICA to participate in the tournaments. Immigration noticed a lot of people came to play tournaments, and ever since then, they consider it as an official sport.
But the Olympics is going to far. Yes, it's fun, yes you got to think of what your moves will be, but it's not a sport.
I'm still waiting for the day when LoL closes and kids going to suicide
It would be funny to watch the Olympics and see all the sports activities and then for it to switch over to game play commentary for LoL.
Lol, like WoW xD? Even though WoW is already starting to die xD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Codedom
i dont see how gunz doesnt have this much popularity.
honestly i think gunz takes out any game skill wise.
learning all these different styles and techniques, its like learning how to dance or some shit XD
its an old game and the community died down but i feel like it should be a game that should kept alive cause the gameplay is so unique, its like no other game
the game devs of gunz and ceo of maiet never intended the gameplay to be like this, so they dont know and never will know what to make of it. So any patches and updates maiet does is a hit or miss type of thing. As long as they cant relate to the players of the game cuz they never made the gameplay themselves, the game will always be in the dumpsQuote:
Originally Posted by -AznNinja
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Originally Posted by CamelBoyMoh
Yes it is an olympic, For your HANDS LOL
GunZ is a series of keystrokes you have to learn, yeah it may be hard for some to learn at first, but once you got it down that is your limit.
The only variable being you placing your mouse in the correct spot, matching that of your opponent, and a very limited item selection.
LoL is a constantly evolving environment, matched with an extremely high amount of combinations. (Items, Teams, Skills, ect.)
It requires a hell of a lot more team effort and strategy, and for the ability for each player to adapt.
League as an Olympic sport is nothing but advertising, it would be a joke for anyone to consider really.
I do believe it can be escalated to bigger things than just the Tourny streams, and think it will eventually.
Let e-sports be e-sports.