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High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers

Posted by timothy on from the buncha-jocks dept.

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?"

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  1. Ah, Just What Schools Were Missing! by CanHasDIY · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh, fantastic - yet another "sport" to distract the future generations of our planet from receiving an actual education.

    Maybe it's time we consider creating separate "athletic schools" for the kids who want to be sports-stars, so the rest of the population can focus on, you know, learning important shit.

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    1. Re:Ah, Just What Schools Were Missing! by excelsior_gr · · Score: 4, Informative

      This is how it is actually done in many european countries. All schools have sport in the curriculum, and although there are competitions between schools etc it is not taken at all seriously. If, however, an individual shows potential, he/she is being forwarded to a sports-school for continuing his studies. In this way, the athlete can also get more professional attention and focus on the sport. Everybody wins.

  2. Re:Kids need school to introduce them to hobbies? by NotDrWho · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Title IX Of Course by Bigbutt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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