Former Blizzard Exec Talks About Adding Video Games To The Olympics
-----------Professional gamers reflexes are "lightning quick and they're having to make very quick decisions on the fly."
According to former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo there is a good argument in adding eSports in the Olympics.
"There's a very good argument for e-sports being in the Olympics," Pardo said. "I think the way that you look at eSports is that it's a very competitive skillset and you look at these professional gamers and the reflexes are lightning quick and they're having to make very quick decisions on the fly."
There is a long-running debate over whether playing video games professionally is a sport.
Earlier this year, the president of ESPN said that eSports aren't sports.
"It's not a sport — it's a competition," ESPN president John Skipper said in an interview. "Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition."
Pardo noted that doing something like trying to get eSports into the Olympics would require a lot of work, especially in how sport is defined.
"If you want to define sport as something that takes a lot of physical exertion, then it's hard to argue that video games should be a sport, but at the same time, when I'm looking at things that are already in the Olympics, I start questioning the definition," he said.
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