Four Kings, Schroet Kommando Go CS Movie Crazy

Simon Bysshe writes "Intel have just put online my latest film for them about competitive computer gaming, featuring a Counter-Strike match between Four Kings & the world's #1 Counter-Strike team Schroet Kommando. The movie includes pre-game interviews, animated tactical rundowns, live 'shoutcasted' games & finally a post-match analysis, and has already been downloaded over 40,000 times - we're trying to establish gaming as an entertaining spectator sport."

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Why couldn't video gaming be considered a sport? Training to be the best at a video game, or win a competition, could easily take as many hours as a player puts in to win a sporting event. Now I'm not comparing the physical aspects of the training, just the time itself invested. The fact is, if it'll bring in crowds, and more importantly the almighty dollar, companies are gonna start marketing these events as sporting events, no matter what you call them. Just look at Poker. A few years ago I don't remember seeing anything about poker in the media. Its gotten so famous, ESPN, ESPN2, the Travel Channel, and i'm sure plenty more television shows play "Texas Hold'em" at least once a day, including a celebrity poker show on Bravo. Now, playing poker may not be a sport, but they sure market it like a sporting event. I mean, the biggest event in poker is called the "World Series of Poker". The fact is, poker is exciting to watch, it brings in spectators, and even more importantly it brings in television and Advertising. If they can get video gaming to somehow become exciting to watch, it'll eventually generate revenue like other sporting events. I really wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years, there were famous "Gamers" giving out autographs at the malls. I can even see FPS games named after the good players, kinda like sports games are named now.