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High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers
An anonymous reader points to this "This is an interesting interview with the creators of the High School Star League, an organization dedicated to furthering eSports as a viable hobby and even a career for children and young adults. The HSL has been active in the U.S. for a while but is now making a headway into Europe, where it's finding Counter-Strike is proving much more popular than RTS and MOBA games. There are a significant number of girls getting involved as well — as many as seven percent of competitors. It's a start, right?"
Pizza is considered a vegetable in the US so nothing surprises me any more from a country that measures food quality in calories per dollar.
Who knows maybe on future the US Olympic organizers will petition for "Eating Cheet-ohs" to be admitted as an event.
No, it's designed to give them false hope of a career in professional gaming--to go along with their false hopes of careers as movie stars, rap/rock stars, fashion icons, and sports legends.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Title IX of course. Since there aren't as many women and girls in Video Gaming, once they're 'Sports', Title IX can be used to "encourage" girls to play. Then there'll be more girls in Video gaming!
It's just like real sports where Title IX has brought the participation of women up to close what mens participation is (like 45/55 I think was the last stat I read).
I've also heard Title IX is being examined to apply to STEM courses as well to ensure more women are represented in STEM courses.
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[John]
Shit better not happen!