The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Saudi Arabia have inked a 12-year agreement to host the Olympic Esports Games, starting in 2025. This pa
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I was moreso upset at the outdated pearl clutching of the olympic committee and the complete lack of engagement with actual esports, instead trying to… find mobile games tangentially related to existing olympic sports…?

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It sure feels like they took an intensive three week course.

They interpreted esports as the electronic version of sports (similar to email, e-cigarettes , E-commerce, etc) instead of the more common usage of playing video games as a competitive sport.

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