The Fury said:
The new sports for the 2020 Olympics has already been announced and while Chess is recognised by the Olympics committee as a sport (has been for years), it was never in consideration for them. The new sports are Wrestling, baseball/softball, skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing. (still no squash but I guess they don't want Eqypt and GB to win all the medals).
...besides, Akira will destroy the stadium before it happens anyway.
On subject I do think eSports has a long way to go to be openly accepted. Sports don't change, not really. Baseball now and baseball 50 years ago is basically the same, few rules changes here and there to adapt to modern technology or techniques. Chess hasn't change for centries. League of Legends has an update every 2 weeks and in 3 years time the pro Overwatch scene could be gone, replaced by the next 'fad' game. It's hard to establish routed games/sports when the games change so much. Also, some of the player base and fans need to grow up. |
Ah, sorry for having outdated info, then. I remember reading an article a while back that said chess was under serious consideration for 2020, but haven't followed it that closely.
That depends on the sport too, though. While esports change much faster, they are also much younger. The reason you think sports don't really change that much is because none of us have been around when the Olympic disciplines of today where in their infancy and still changing a lot.
For a few examples of sports that had drastic rule changes within the last 40 years look no further than, basketball, figure skating, gymnastics, Ski jumping etc. And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. These aren't small rule changes either, but fundamental stuff like the 3-point line and entire new scoring systems wich entirely transform the sports. Heck they stopped actually scating figures in figure skating. So yeah, sports are changing, sometimes drastically.
