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Der Spiegel [in German], supported by Sky News [in English], report:
[translation mine]Ever since young people started earning money playing computer games, a discussion has arisen within Gamer circles: is E-sport, professional computer game playing, really sport? Is mouse-clicking and button pressing at high tempo easier, more challenging, or just as sophisticated as kicking a ball or swimming faster than others?
To put it plainly, whoever games professionally needs exactly as much training, passion, and talent as professionals in classical sports. And that good gamers compete in front of tens of thousands of spectators makes the world hardly better or worse than a football/soccer world championship or the Tour de France.
In any event Gamers may have to think about the issue more than they'd like. The E-Sports League (ESL), in which players of games like "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive," "Fifa," and "League of Legends" compete, has announced that they will be cooperating with the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). It is supposed to not only prevent doping, but institute concrete testing. ESL has announced that the Counter-Strike competition on August 22-23 in Cologne's Lanxess Arena that skin tests will be conducted.
Additional reporting here and here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Saturday July 25 2015, @06:24PM
Unless it was the government operating sports and eSports, why would it violate the 5th Amendment?
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(Score: 2) by tathra on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:03PM
because a failed drug test is evidence that a crime has been committed. honestly i'm surprised that police don't go out and arrest people for failing drug tests, given the ridiculousness of the drug war, but if you think it can't or won't ever happen, you're fooling yourself. evidence of a crime is evidence of a crime, regardless of if the crime is prosecuted or not.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:11PM
You want to participate in a sporting event, you agree to the terms. You aren't forced to compete.
At least when employers do it, it is hurting the employees' rights to do what they want outside of work and make a living.
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(Score: 2) by tathra on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:15PM
oh, and i should mention that "internal possession" (ie, a failed drug test) is prosecuted [howarddefense.com] as a crime [stopthedrugwar.org] in some places. the really ridiculous part is that literally everyone [naturalnews.com] is guilty of this crime (internal possession of dmt, a schedule 1 substance) at every moment of their life.