{"id":14595,"date":"2017-09-05T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14595"},"modified":"2017-09-19T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:07:46","slug":"the-bi-weekly-gamer-esports-and-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/09\/05\/the-bi-weekly-gamer-esports-and-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bi-weekly Gamer<\/em>: Esports and the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esports could become a medal event at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

The Paris Olympic bid committee recently announced that they would be looking into the possibility of adding esports to their list of medal sports.<\/p>\n

Things aren\u2019t set in stone yet, but every talk that\u2019s held is a step toward seeing your favourite team or players on the podium.<\/p>\n

Furthering esports\u2019 chance of getting a spot at the Olympics, it was recently announced that esports would be a medal event at the upcoming Asian Games, an event recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).<\/p>\n

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The Bi-weekly Gamer<\/em> is a column about competitive gaming that appears in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the upcoming generation gets more involved in esports and the industry continues to grow, the demand for widespread access and acceptance of esports will also grow. What better way for esports to enter the public eye than the Olympic Games? One of the only wild-card factors is what games will be entered.<\/p>\n

The industry is changing fast, and, in an effort to provide longevity, companies like Blizzard and Riot Games are hammering down permanent leagues, like Blizzard\u2019s Overwatch League.<\/p>\n

Smaller games could be on the table as well, though\u2014fighting games or trading card games like Hearthstone<\/i> or The Elder Scrolls: Legends<\/i> could see the spotlight too. Likelier picks are Call of Duty<\/i>, League of Legends<\/i>, Dota 2<\/i>, Overwatch<\/i>, and Starcraft 2<\/i>, as they would have the largest viewer base.<\/p>\n

But not everyone would be happy to see video games in the Olympics, which for generations has been considered one of the pinnacle events for people to showcase their athleticism.<\/p>\n

The Paris Olympic bid committee may decide they want esports in the Summer Games, but, ultimately, it\u2019s the IOC that will make the final call.<\/p>\n

What this could mean is that even if esports is chosen, all it will take is a couple of IOC members to shut down all the hard work and force everything back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n

It may be a few years away yet, but the day is coming when we\u2019ll see a swell in national pride due to Canadian esports teams in the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Esports could become a medal event at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The Paris Olympic bid committee recently announced that they would be looking into the possibility of adding esports to their list of medal sports. Things aren\u2019t set in stone yet, but every talk that\u2019s held is a step toward seeing your favourite team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-september-5-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14596,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions\/14596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}