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Not everyone in favor of esports in Olympic fold

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NBC lost viewers because they blockaded all the coverage to require a Comcast subscription.

eSports are a skill like chess or cribbage. When will those be added to the Olympics? Or a Beer-Bike race? Or 5-beer bowling? If they drug test, 50% of the top players will be out.

Younger people don't have CATV. They have netflix.

Younger people are used to watching what they want, when it fits their schedule, not when it is broadcast.

Younger people HATE commercials.

I waited 1 day after my favorite Olympic sport ended in 2012 to cancel my CATV subscription. Sometimes I miss it, but not $130/month of missing it.

eSports are a better fit for the X-Games, IMHO. Dude.

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Equally concerning for the IOC and broadcasters like NBC is the 30 percent drop in viewers aged between 18 and 34.

Perhaps because they're so busy playing on their phones. Everything and anything else going on around them is of little or no concern to them since they are so engrossed in their games.

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Please keep The Olympics for the true and real athletes of the world. Keep all and any form of gaming out. PLEASE, PLEASE, P L E A S E !!!!

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Perhaps because they're so busy playing on their phones. Everything and anything else going on around them is of little or no concern to them since they are so engrossed in their games.

As a younger person being "too busy playing on my phone" I disagree with you.

Its not that we are too busy playing on our phone to be concerned with stuff going around us, it's that we aren't concerned with a lot of things that are of little importance to us, so we do something that is entertaining.

Another thing people tend to forget is that being on your phone does not mean you're playing a game. Right now I'm on my phone reading the news, but from just looking at me I'm playing a game.

You can be doing virtually anything on your phone these days and assuming it's only video games is an ignorant assumption to make.

Back to the real topic, just as was said in the article, eSports doesn't need the Olympics. The article talks about $1 million counterstrike tournaments, but fails to mention the International total prize pool being over $1 million for the past 7 years. The first place team gets $1 million with other teams getting slightly less than that going down. This past International's first place got $11million in prize money.

In the current economic situation for most younger people in the world, we are far more interested in making money than simply getting a gold medal for an event which is very hesitant to even involve us.

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Another thing people tend to forget is that being on your phone does not mean you're playing a game. Right now I'm on my phone reading the news, but from just looking at me I'm playing a game.

Yes, I know. It's not only games. It's Line and everything else which consumes WAY too much of young peoples' time. Of course these phones are great tools in so many ways but there are issues with game-holicness affecting too many youngsters' education and 'growth'.

I have no qualms with eSports per se but, in name only is it a sport. It should have it's place for sure but obviously not in the olympics.

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