ESports has long been derided as “not a real sport.” But now, an Olympic-organised event is being dismissed by competitive gamers as not real eSports. | AFP
With popular video games such as “Counter-Strike” and “DOTA 2”, eSports has been booming over the past decade.
Malaysian professional eSports coach Khairul Azman Mohamad Sharif agreed, saying he found the list baffling. Such changes tend to happen slowly but the IOC has opened new frontiers recently, with skateboarding at the Tokyo Games and breakdancing at Paris 2024.Describing the list of games as “a very sensible first approach”, vice-president of the Global Esports Federation and CEO of British Esports Chester King said the Singapore event would be a positive step in eventually putting popular video games on the Olympic roster.
He added that selected games had to be inclusive with no technical barriers to entry and have gender equality, which is “often not yet the case in the field of competitive gaming”.
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