WorKid wrote:1. It's a terrible thing to watch. 2. If Counter Strike is in the Olympics then all other human competitive activities might as well be. From squash to darts to connect 4, chess, scrabble, power boats, that funny little birdman competition where they jump off the pier, sheep dog trials, pumpkin growing, and gurning. 3. With most if not all Olympic events there's visible evident skill and/or effort, and you can usually see people pushing themselves to the very limit in the pursuit of their dreams. A nerd tippy-tappying away on a keyboard does not an Olympian make.
WorKid wrote:The other fairly obvious problem is the 'current' games change too bloody often.
Blue Swirl wrote:Early modern Olympiads featured dog grooming and city planning. I'd have no problem with Olympic Counter Strike.Considering poetry used to be an Olympic event, I think there's room for for E-Spurts (lel).
Bollockoff wrote:Comp Cites: Skylines unf yes.
Ahem... whut? This is nonsense Swoily.Blue Swirl wrote:high ranking South Korean Starcraft players practice 10 hours a day, six days a week. That's a more intense training regimen than most "real" athletes, AFAIK.
Citation needed. I know they train hard (hence being Olympians) but a quick internet search suggests Michael Phelps, the best swimmer of all time, trains for six hours a day.Skerret wrote:Ahem... whut? This is nonsense Swoily.high ranking South Korean Starcraft players practice 10 hours a day, six days a week. That's a more intense training regimen than most "real" athletes, AFAIK.
WorKid wrote:I think Skez was questioning the intensity of playing Starcraft vs swimming, running or other athletic conditioning, not the time spent.
Tempy wrote:These guys hit like two hundred actions per minute
Diluted Dante wrote:Chess might just be sitting there occasionally moving something just in front of you, but the strain on your cardio vascular system is massive.
Indeed. At his peak Phelps was consuming 12,000 calories a day and would have needed a good ten hours of sleep a night, plus (presumably) physio and other conditioning work that wasn't part of his higher intensity training. Elite Olympic athlete regimes would near kill your average schlub (me).Tempy wrote:It's probably not as intense, but it's not exactly a slouch either. These guys hit like two hundred actions per minute and I'd wager it's fairly mentally draining and stressful too. The difference being they can quite likely kick back and have fun a lot easier and with a lot less risk to performance than someone like Phelps.WorKid wrote:I think Skez was questioning the intensity of playing Starcraft vs swimming, running or other athletic conditioning, not the time spent.
He means that giant chess you see outside libraries. Those rooks can weigh upwards of 50kg.Nexx wrote:What?Diluted Dante wrote:Chess might just be sitting there occasionally moving something just in front of you, but the strain on your cardio vascular system is massive.
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