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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 25 2015, @03:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-competitors-are-disqualified dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:17PM

    by tathra (3367) on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:17PM (#213928)

    they'd show it on ESPN/ESPN2 for sure. i've seen competitive lumberjacking on ESPN. i've seen competitive jump-roping on ESPN, not to mention cheerleading, strong-man competitions, and all kinds of shit. ESPN will show just about anything.

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