I'm 30, and I remember being a teenager wishing people would accept e-sports as a real competition. I regret it all. This was a mistake. This is embarrassing. This makes us all look bad.
@RonnyHurdles agreed. That's not to say being a world class pro in an esport isn't incredibly impressive, but gaming and sports are two different things
@@QwertYuiop-yt3uh yeah, like nobody is gonna call a Chess Grandmaster an athlete or an Olympian lol. The only physical activity you’re getting during chess or esports is maybe pacing across the room or sweating from the stress
I wouldn't be surprised if the Olympic committee intentionally did a really shitty, shady job at implementing this just so that if the prospect of gaming in the Olympics ever comes up again they can point to this and say, "nah it doesn't work," and they never have to hear about it again.
For thousands of years, the Olympics represented the best athletic abilities of mankind from all around the world, feats of physical prowess, and competition topping one another year after year. Now it has fortnite.
its genuinely a disgrace, imagine training your body your whole life pushing it to extreme lengths, just to have the same title as some teenager who sits on his ass all day and only plays video games
Well actually... There wasn't a single olympic from 393 untill 1896, so not thousends of years. Only 1169 years for the ancient olympics and 127 years in its modern form.
@@Cat-jh8kh Your opinion is exactly how 90% of the Olympic viewer base would talk. its just different skill sets. it looks like on the outside some kid sitting down playing some beep boop game on the tv.......but its instead training hair trigger reaction times, learning how your enemy is, anticipating the enemy you dont see, so on and so forth. There's ways video games train the brain that one doesnt notice until you start to pay attention. Even though I dont play the BR side..........I play the Save the World side. You'll notice, at least on my end, that, unlike BR, Save the World you can loot 2x more items because its a Tower Defense, co-op game. Your brain gets trained to, within a fraction of a second, be able to see any and every item that can be interactable. Running full speed around the map, you can gather info on your surroundings in a hair trigger of a second and then decide whether to address said thing, or keep going. When in a mission, you have to know the best way to support your team, build the defense, and get a perfect score. We may not train our muscles, but we train our brains. This would have been the perfect way to show audiences WHAT you get from video games, HOW both sides differ but are parallel..............if it wasnt made by a bunch of old dusty ass antique shop rejects. Of course they would think that vidya game on phone equals that thing they heard about thats called "E-Sports" Its different and also its own importance. .......Epic wouldnt be giving out a whopping ass 2 million cash prize if it wasnt.
@@Vicieron yes i agree it does take lots of time to rain and get good at video games. However thats why e sports are a thing, but just because it takes lots of hours to get good at something doesn't mean it deserves to be an "'olympic'' sport. The only reason the olympics is incorperating them now is because they think it will make them heaps of money
I think what baffles me more is that they didn’t even think to include Tetris. Competitive Tetris goes HARD. If it’s really a thing of including “family friendly” games then why not Tetris?
@@glockmaster9516 he’s not wrong tho, it requires insane reaction time and split second decision making. As well as a wierd controller tapping method to allow them to press buttons faster to allow them to go even longer
im glad to see more content from charlie that is not just mostly stream clips. lately, ive felt like his main channel has kind of turned into that where he just copy and pastes his discussions directly from twitch into his main youtube channel, and i hope we just see generally more of this kind of content.
I honestly didn't think the Olympics could contribute to their own decline any more than they already do. I was wrong. This is completely embarrassing, both for gaming and the Olympics.
Parasites who suck the very spirit out of the virtual experience they give us, just to fill already full pockets. What is new. Money is the devils drug.
I would be far more interested if they added Marching Band over gaming personally, you’re absolutely right that while gaming still requires massive talent at a professional level it’s still a different category from the physical stuff.
Baseball Pros is legit. Best option for a baseball themed game in my opinion. I know the art style isn't for everyone, but it is really popular in Japan.
@@SandwichMan_ well people were competing naked at one point, so there is that. but yeah, even clothed, it used to be leagues better. decades, if not centuries ago, that is.
@@Choryrth i still think tho partially naked should return. Like runners running on bare feet. It takes away the sponsorships and the huge R&D to make people slightly faster with special shoes etc
@@posthumanlife yep. basic shorts and shirt works. full nude would be entertaining, but let's be real, modern society has the strangest gripes with nudity. pg-13 movies can have people lopping each others limbs off, decapitation and more, but one boob and it's a travesty of the highest proportions, think of the children! lol
I feel like the biggest issue with esports in the olympics is not that they're not an athletic competition, but that videogames as they exist now are comertial products as much as they are a sport and artform
Rocket League is literally the perfect game for the Olympics. Big competitive scene, non-violent, and also decently easy for non gamers to understand, it’s just Soccer
They are trying to make Esports somehow “sports related” when they could just be doing competitive style esports matches. You know, what already goes on irl.
Lol Fortnite is very rng heavy but you can manipulate the odds to your favor in many different ways. First shot accuracy is a mechanic I don't see casuals utilizing nearly as much as they should
Yea the tae Kwon do I practice I'm actually scared of getting kicked in the head, but the Olympic version was turned into only aiming for the head and only grazing with your big toe is enough to score
it almost feels like every game is in the Olympics already with how seriously most people take them now i cant imagine how sweaty mainstream games would become if they were labeled as official Olympic sports
The funny thing is that in fortnite the lore makes it so you aren't killing you're opponent you are literally sending them to the lobby. A little robot comes and teleports people who are "dead"
It’s insane how weird and random our lines are on what is and is not considered inappropriate. The Olympics have: Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Taekwondo and Karate, all violent and dangerous sports. I hope these execs don’t pop a blood vessel once they find out about CS:GO and R6 Siege.
I think the "thumb people baseball" game Charlie mentioned is actually that mildly popular KONAMI baseball game (they collabed recently with YGO Master Duel and I assume it's popular in JPN since it's coming to the Switch as well).
Hope not, Faze was fucking stupid and I hated seeing kids with Faze in their Gamertag knowing damn well they're just losers who have no affiliation with that garbage clan
e-Sports isn't about doing irl sports thing like aiming and accuracy like bow. It is about tje split second decision, learning game mechanics, competitive nature of it which is what we like, actual skill, not trying to imitate irl sports. They're basically trying to bring the same old irl sports to a digital form and that is awful garbage as it is just easier and more boring version of the irl sport. Bring us actual competitive games or atleast ones that require any sort of skill
Yeah! We only wanna play call of duty and csgo to heck with actual labor and sports who needs to be healthy? Let’s just sit in our computer chairs eating cheese doodles until we’re 600lbs and dependent on other people to take care of us because games matter more than actually taking care of our bodies.
That's what I'm saying. JUST target practice in fortnite? Idk how they'll even make that interesting. Maybe if they like, have people run through an obstacle course with targets, build something, and time it all. Then maybe it'd be kinda interesting. But even then, if there isn't any direct competition then what's the point?
Yeah having sim sports games like 2k and Gran Turismo makes no sense when they can just set up events for the real thing. MOBAs and shooters make sense tho.
The more baffling thing is that Epic Games agreed to this. You could say it's for exposure, but they'd be showing off the most boring possible version of the product; something that actively sucks the dopamine out of your body.
Theoretically, a big issue with gamer Olympics is that a company would own and be able to modify their game if placed in the Olympics. Plus, whatever country the company exists in would have an unfair advantage via bribery, direct access, or whatever. Having the Olympics themselves make / own the games (such as if they suddenly exist right before the announcement) would be a nice work around
Exactly, I hardly ever see ppl talk about how games being OWNED makes esports different. No one gets copyright on volleyball and highjump, but including popular video games opens a whole new can of capitalism worms. I just wish they would be honest and say they made these games themselves and not monetize it.
I'm sure someone would make them a free nonviolent team deathmatch fps or something. I'm not sure how they would make money out of it to be honest. Just leave the eSports out
The biggest issue with bigger games is how tf the players will find time to actually practice with their international team.Most teams are scrimming and practising for tournaments all year round
@@giannidavies3594Just use existing teams. Hold a national championship tournament and whatever team wins beckmes the Olympic team. You don't need to be it an "all-star" team of players that have never played together
@@ZVPieGuy first of all thats a dumb as fuck idea, second not all countries will have teams and like US will have 30 argentina will have 3 so extremely unbalanced and even then literally every team is owned by a brand they do not represent countries they represent brands
I have high hopes that with Gran Turismo they will figure out this is the best way to do motorsport in the olympics. I would love to see some rally racing in the summer lineup
The only posible way of having MotorSport on Olympics is throught SpecSeries made with equal cars Like, Formula 4 or Formula 3. Karting with Kz2 Or 125cc Bikes like in Moto3 Championship
I have a different conspiracy theory. I think the committee doesnt actually want e sports in the Olympics, and so chose some of the worst, shittiest games (or had them made for this) so that public opinion would turn against e sports being recognized the way they deserve
If that’s their plan, it’s a dying plan. Old people won’t watch esports anyways, and younger people wouldn’t fall for it. The generations that don’t play video games are one foot in the coffin
You should make a second video to this! The Apps and Games mentioned are also owned by one of the sponsores for the olympics. They bought a studio just to lake that game for the olympics!
I like to think one of the higher-ups probably joked about fortnite and the rest of the higher-ups they were like "yeah we should put fortnite in this year's Olympics!" This Olympics is going to be embarrassing to say the least
Target shooting on a game that uses a algorithm to determine the accuracy of your gun… there’s no actual way to perfect your accuracy you can improve it by shooting small bursts and if your reaction time is better but it’s still hot a degrees of random so you have different good people each round
I would've been happier if it was an edit course where players had to race each other. Twitch did that a while back and it was pretty awesome to watch. Massive display of skill
i'd like to state that back in the 2018 olympics in pyeongchang, south korea the olympics did have an exhibition tournament of starcraft 2 that was part of the olympics. the IOC has the option to host actual games at the olympics, they simply choose not to.
my thought process on why people would want esports in the olympics is that they just want more recognition to the medium. but I do agree that trying to mix it with the current olympics doesn't really work. imo we should have a separate event that is like a dedicated esports olympics that runs separately and can be more focused on things "gamers" care about.
I'm not really sure how they could implement them successfully. I understand how they wouldn't want violence because it needs to be televised to a wide audience which is perfectly fine. However I think the most important thing about the Olympics is that the games or sports played are the same every year, so that at every one there is a chance to break records from the previous attempts. Videogames in general move too quickly and for the most part don't really have consistent non-violent namestays that could be replayed at every single olympics....kind of ruining the point. (unless of course, cso surfing races with subway surfers on the bottom half)
As someone said on Pippa's comment section, "i'm sure that the owner of those game's editor who's also a massive investor in the Olympics games is just a coincidence" (there was the actual name in her comment section but i forgot)
I will say that the baseball game is actually pretty good/fun, it is from a long running franchise and is the most popular baseball game in Japan its just most of them never got ported to the west I believe. So at least its not a mobile game and more of a real game than most of the other entries.
"Thumb people playing baseball" is actually a decent long-running game franchise though, with its campaign mode often having a wacky anime-esque scenarios involving grand conspiracies and cyborgs despite it being about baseball, it's quite different from other sport games where they always take itself like a simulator game. I can 100% agree that it's miles away from eSports material though, what a bad idea.
If we’re doin “practice modes” for the Olympics. Have them do the combo trials in KOF 13. It takes people turning their fingers into pretzels to do that shit!
yeah and aiming isn't even the main mechanic in the game it's piece control, even if you're settings are superb the aiming is pay to win with 240hz desktop aimbot. that's why there's so much more to Fortnite games because if you're smart u learn to play smarter because capitalism can't stop us but it's a multi platform game to coexist.
ye it would also be offensive to other olympians too see fat kids who cant even do 10 pushups have the same title as them just because their parents let them take a video game full time
I think the issue is mainly that the people behind the Olympics are completely unable to imagine the idea of anything being a "sport" unless it follows the formula for traditional sports. Most esports are based around games that could never be a sport in real life, and they just dont understand how that could ever work as a competition
Lol, I’m shocked they didn’t do a vr game in an area decked out to be some arena where two countries go to war with each other or compete in some challenge
Did not know Gran Turismo was in the Olympics, It would be hype if Charlie’s dad got a spot on the American team! It would actually be a reason to pay attention to the Olympics for once in my life 😂.
I genuinely think that what's happening with the Olympics is that they see that esports is growing and because there so far behind of any sports organization when it comes to esports they choose shitty app games (or help made them in any way shape or form) to point and say, look esports are bad the viewer ship woes not there and leave, for no reason at all
one of my favorite childhood movie is The Wizard , hosting video game competition , if they can pull something off like that for the Olympics could be interesting. I love watching speedruns and what not , this is their first iteration so i'm not against it. your take on the Mobile phone gaming that's a big yikes you're right on that.
Not only Mario and Sonic at the olympic game series literally existed, it's a video game series based on the OLYMPICS. It has a series of sports you see in the Olympic games. If they wanted to involve video games so bad why not pick at least one game of that series?
At first i was sitting here like Fortnite in the Olympics kinda sounds dope like seeing how intense it can get is amazjng....then you hit me with the news even a dying dog wouldnt want to hear...
I'm 30, and I remember being a teenager wishing people would accept e-sports as a real competition. I regret it all. This was a mistake. This is embarrassing. This makes us all look bad.
Pun pun
LOL
Gamers should not be called Olympians, sorry. But that’s just messed up.
@RonnyHurdles agreed. That's not to say being a world class pro in an esport isn't incredibly impressive, but gaming and sports are two different things
@@QwertYuiop-yt3uh yeah, like nobody is gonna call a Chess Grandmaster an athlete or an Olympian lol. The only physical activity you’re getting during chess or esports is maybe pacing across the room or sweating from the stress
Perhaps the revolver god can enter the Olympics
Forgotten reference that needs to be resurfaced
Ceeday?
Cybertruck
That's a real Charlie fan right there.
You mean takaya persona 3?
I wouldn't be surprised if the Olympic committee intentionally did a really shitty, shady job at implementing this just so that if the prospect of gaming in the Olympics ever comes up again they can point to this and say, "nah it doesn't work," and they never have to hear about it again.
Literally thought the same thing!
good, i hope it fails since its such a ridiculous idea, i get e sports is good but like the olympics is too far
@@Cat-jh8kh you're too busy in your mom's basement anyways
@@ceoatcrystalsoft4942 since im not american or where the fuck people have fucken basements thats kinda impossible g
@@ceoatcrystalsoft4942 okay mr CEO At Crystalsoft
They took one of the most unique form of competition and boiled it down to getting high scores on Aim Lab
I seriously can't believe they're comparing videogame aiming to real target shooting.
every time an interview goes "relevant for younger generations" my expectations always hit rock bottom
They hit rock bottom, grab a shovel, and start digging
Maximum cringe when I hear them say that.
It's mostly "How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” and it makes me lose my brain cells everytime
Younger generations apparently like consuming actual feces
That is not possible, because they frickin pass through Earth until they come out of the other side of the world and then to outer space
I like how the olympics has wrestling, Judo, and Boxing, but fortnite is where they draw the line for violence.
truuuuuu
The Olympics is such garbage they don’t even have wrestling as an event anymore, literally one of the Olympic events from Ancient Greece
Ikr. Like CTE is an acceptable risk but fantasy violence is where they draw the line
fencing
@@logbroog9121 Might be because of participators juicing, same issue in boxing
So much potential. It would have been pretty cool to see all the different countries compete in actual battle royale
Yeah that'd be actually pretty cool. Like 100 different countries going at it at once? I literally thought that would be it.
Olympic hunger games 😳
Plenty of potential, but wrong game.
there was already a world cup?? the Olympics is way too far i think
For thousands of years, the Olympics represented the best athletic abilities of mankind from all around the world, feats of physical prowess, and competition topping one another year after year. Now it has fortnite.
its genuinely a disgrace, imagine training your body your whole life pushing it to extreme lengths, just to have the same title as some teenager who sits on his ass all day and only plays video games
Well actually... There wasn't a single olympic from 393 untill 1896, so not thousends of years. Only 1169 years for the ancient olympics and 127 years in its modern form.
@@Cat-jh8kh Your opinion is exactly how 90% of the Olympic viewer base would talk.
its just different skill sets.
it looks like on the outside some kid sitting down playing some beep boop game on the tv.......but its instead training hair trigger reaction times, learning how your enemy is, anticipating the enemy you dont see, so on and so forth.
There's ways video games train the brain that one doesnt notice until you start to pay attention.
Even though I dont play the BR side..........I play the Save the World side. You'll notice, at least on my end, that, unlike BR, Save the World you can loot 2x more items because its a Tower Defense, co-op game.
Your brain gets trained to, within a fraction of a second, be able to see any and every item that can be interactable. Running full speed around the map, you can gather info on your surroundings in a hair trigger of a second and then decide whether to address said thing, or keep going.
When in a mission, you have to know the best way to support your team, build the defense, and get a perfect score. We may not train our muscles, but we train our brains.
This would have been the perfect way to show audiences WHAT you get from video games, HOW both sides differ but are parallel..............if it wasnt made by a bunch of old dusty ass antique shop rejects.
Of course they would think that vidya game on phone equals that thing they heard about thats called "E-Sports"
Its different and also its own importance.
.......Epic wouldnt be giving out a whopping ass 2 million cash prize if it wasnt.
@@Vicieron yes i agree it does take lots of time to rain and get good at video games. However thats why e sports are a thing, but just because it takes lots of hours to get good at something doesn't mean it deserves to be an "'olympic'' sport. The only reason the olympics is incorperating them now is because they think it will make them heaps of money
I think what baffles me more is that they didn’t even think to include Tetris. Competitive Tetris goes HARD.
If it’s really a thing of including “family friendly” games then why not Tetris?
Because that would be too cool.
We literally have a tetris battle royale for fucks sake.
Imagine writing the sentence "Competitive Tetris goes HARD" lmfaoooooo
@@glockmaster9516 he’s not wrong tho, it requires insane reaction time and split second decision making. As well as a wierd controller tapping method to allow them to press buttons faster to allow them to go even longer
@@glockmaster9516 Is it wrong tho?
We've come a long way from naked men running in Greece to target shooting in Fortnite.
wish we could turn back time
to the good old days
I shall go streaking tonight as a homage.
@@woodside4life 💪
We need to bring naked men running back so we can justify naked women running.
@@audiovisualcringe I too want to see naked men
im glad to see more content from charlie that is not just mostly stream clips. lately, ive felt like his main channel has kind of turned into that where he just copy and pastes his discussions directly from twitch into his main youtube channel, and i hope we just see generally more of this kind of content.
Yea, kinda feels like the "readers digest" of his streams. I like it tbh
It's good for some people. I don't have time to watch his streams, so these videos are great
Yeah but I feel like videos that only contain stream segments should be on this channel and his usual content on his main channel
I honestly didn't think the Olympics could contribute to their own decline any more than they already do. I was wrong. This is completely embarrassing, both for gaming and the Olympics.
Hold on, institutions being completely oblivious to the gaming scene ? What a shocker.
Lmfao facts. They'll get it in a few years if they MAYBE want to get it but until then cringe
Yes but this is on a different level, tic tac bow? They were on some shit cooking this up...
Parasites who suck the very spirit out of the virtual experience they give us, just to fill already full pockets. What is new. Money is the devils drug.
i mean its run by fossils who probably have a password named "password123"
Might be a ploy to be able to say e sports is not popular so it isn't worth the olympics but at least they tried, right?
Honestly. They should have games like Mario Kart in the e-sports category.
preach
Yess
Not even the Olympics can put up with Nintendo bs
Why?
Mario kart is like 80% luck it should be more skill based games if anything
I would be far more interested if they added Marching Band over gaming personally, you’re absolutely right that while gaming still requires massive talent at a professional level it’s still a different category from the physical stuff.
thats why they have e sports which i totally get, but adding them to the Olympics is too far
Baseball Pros is legit. Best option for a baseball themed game in my opinion. I know the art style isn't for everyone, but it is really popular in Japan.
Considering the history of the Olympics this is actually mind blowing. We have quite literarily downgraded.
Wait, it used to be better?
@@SandwichMan_ well people were competing naked at one point, so there is that. but yeah, even clothed, it used to be leagues better. decades, if not centuries ago, that is.
@@Choryrth i still think tho partially naked should return. Like runners running on bare feet. It takes away the sponsorships and the huge R&D to make people slightly faster with special shoes etc
@@posthumanlife as someone who runs on gravel for fun, this may be my only chance to get into the olympics
@@posthumanlife yep. basic shorts and shirt works.
full nude would be entertaining, but let's be real, modern society has the strangest gripes with nudity. pg-13 movies can have people lopping each others limbs off, decapitation and more, but one boob and it's a travesty of the highest proportions, think of the children! lol
Olympic paintball would be pretty sick.
Olympic airsoft
I’d watch both of those
all of the above
i still say completely drop drug testing and anyone who wants to become a freak can go for it and break some records.
Im actually surprised speedball hasn't been added yet
I feel like the biggest issue with esports in the olympics is not that they're not an athletic competition, but that videogames as they exist now are comertial products as much as they are a sport and artform
Rocket League is literally the perfect game for the Olympics. Big competitive scene, non-violent, and also decently easy for non gamers to understand, it’s just Soccer
chess is the only game that deserves a spot in the olympics
There's something beautiful about how terribly they've missed the mark in their inclusion of projectile-target games
Poetry used to be a Olympic sport.
It was the most physically demanding sports at the time 😂
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@Blazed i hope that's how they do the esports tbh, but also they should totally bring that back omg
“use to be”
@@key0777 Nah, “used to be” makes perfect sense there. Try again
A prime example of be careful what you wish for.
As both a Sports Athlete and a Gaming "Athlete" I believe they're two separate things and should not have been included together. At. All.
They are trying to make Esports somehow “sports related” when they could just be doing competitive style esports matches. You know, what already goes on irl.
They could’ve at least made it a building contest
or a "deathrun' obstacle course, ran similar to other traditional races such as hurdles
@@beardsmcguiness8463 like all the old halo deathrun maps
If it’s a regular training course it’ll prolly have builds and edits too
If that was the case, fortnite shouldn't even be considered, and minecract should be in the Olympics
@@C.J.T49 or roblox
I graduated on Saturday and the girl sitting next to me played tic-tac-bow for two uninterrupted hours of the ceremony.
“ let’s have a accuracy contest in a game that uses bloom” 🤯
For real the dumbest thing ever
With randomized guns to boot
Imagine doing a shooting contest and 1 person has a water squirter while the other has an RPG
@@nonamepasserbya6658 the guns aren't randomized in creative
@@nonamepasserbya6658 I didn’t even know the weapons were random 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol Fortnite is very rng heavy but you can manipulate the odds to your favor in many different ways. First shot accuracy is a mechanic I don't see casuals utilizing nearly as much as they should
The Olympics turned Tae Kwon Do in to foot fencing so this is definitely on brand.
Yea the tae Kwon do I practice I'm actually scared of getting kicked in the head, but the Olympic version was turned into only aiming for the head and only grazing with your big toe is enough to score
So actually footsies 🦶 😅
Ah yes, the ground based footsies the Olympics are known for.
true the same shit with sports karate, losing a gold medal because a fighter kod someone (the opponent leaned into the kick)
it almost feels like every game is in the Olympics already with how seriously most people take them now i cant imagine how sweaty mainstream games would become if they were labeled as official Olympic sports
The funny thing is that in fortnite the lore makes it so you aren't killing you're opponent you are literally sending them to the lobby. A little robot comes and teleports people who are "dead"
This is like saying ''for all you chess fans we are bringing Checkers to this year's Olympic games!!!''
This is like giving a drowning man a ticket to Seaworld
How
yh how
😊
I am also curious as to how
I'm curious too
It’s insane how weird and random our lines are on what is and is not considered inappropriate.
The Olympics have: Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Taekwondo and Karate, all violent and dangerous sports. I hope these execs don’t pop a blood vessel once they find out about CS:GO and R6 Siege.
I think the "thumb people baseball" game Charlie mentioned is actually that mildly popular KONAMI baseball game (they collabed recently with YGO Master Duel and I assume it's popular in JPN since it's coming to the Switch as well).
"Yeah I'm an Olympic athlete"
*"Wow thats amazing must have took so much training, what do you do?"*
"Dragon City"
imagine if faze made a comeback lmao
Don't jinx it
Hope not, Faze was fucking stupid and I hated seeing kids with Faze in their Gamertag knowing damn well they're just losers who have no affiliation with that garbage clan
Unless they get their company back probably not
Maybe then would Snoop Dog return
Didn’t the Olympic Committee release a statement explaining the criteria under which they’d add esports if they were going to? And none of these fit…
Funny how they censored violence in Fortnite while every sport in the olympics is based around war.
Damn, I was hoping to see Geralt crank 90's and 360 no-scope Master Chief on national television...
e-Sports isn't about doing irl sports thing like aiming and accuracy like bow. It is about tje split second decision, learning game mechanics, competitive nature of it which is what we like, actual skill, not trying to imitate irl sports. They're basically trying to bring the same old irl sports to a digital form and that is awful garbage as it is just easier and more boring version of the irl sport. Bring us actual competitive games or atleast ones that require any sort of skill
Yeah! We only wanna play call of duty and csgo to heck with actual labor and sports who needs to be healthy? Let’s just sit in our computer chairs eating cheese doodles until we’re 600lbs and dependent on other people to take care of us because games matter more than actually taking care of our bodies.
And that's perfect with Fortnite's build mechanic
That's what I'm saying. JUST target practice in fortnite? Idk how they'll even make that interesting. Maybe if they like, have people run through an obstacle course with targets, build something, and time it all. Then maybe it'd be kinda interesting. But even then, if there isn't any direct competition then what's the point?
Seems like a really free slot for a fighting game but uh I guess not cuz violence or something
Yeah having sim sports games like 2k and Gran Turismo makes no sense when they can just set up events for the real thing. MOBAs and shooters make sense tho.
Poetry was once an Olympic sport (however it was only added because the emperor at the time knew he would win)
When Charlie first talked about this I seriously thought he was joking or it was a fake article. Its so absurd
The more baffling thing is that Epic Games agreed to this. You could say it's for exposure, but they'd be showing off the most boring possible version of the product; something that actively sucks the dopamine out of your body.
Theoretically, a big issue with gamer Olympics is that a company would own and be able to modify their game if placed in the Olympics. Plus, whatever country the company exists in would have an unfair advantage via bribery, direct access, or whatever.
Having the Olympics themselves make / own the games (such as if they suddenly exist right before the announcement) would be a nice work around
Exactly, I hardly ever see ppl talk about how games being OWNED makes esports different. No one gets copyright on volleyball and highjump, but including popular video games opens a whole new can of capitalism worms. I just wish they would be honest and say they made these games themselves and not monetize it.
I'm sure someone would make them a free nonviolent team deathmatch fps or something. I'm not sure how they would make money out of it to be honest. Just leave the eSports out
The biggest issue with bigger games is how tf the players will find time to actually practice with their international team.Most teams are scrimming and practising for tournaments all year round
@@giannidavies3594Just use existing teams. Hold a national championship tournament and whatever team wins beckmes the Olympic team. You don't need to be it an "all-star" team of players that have never played together
@@ZVPieGuy first of all thats a dumb as fuck idea, second not all countries will have teams and like US will have 30 argentina will have 3 so extremely unbalanced and even then literally every team is owned by a brand they do not represent countries they represent brands
I have high hopes that with Gran Turismo they will figure out this is the best way to do motorsport in the olympics. I would love to see some rally racing in the summer lineup
I cant wait to see dads in their racing sims in the olympics 😂
The only posible way of having MotorSport on Olympics is throught SpecSeries made with equal cars
Like, Formula 4 or Formula 3.
Karting with Kz2
Or 125cc Bikes like in Moto3 Championship
They're probably just gonna do a bunch of One make races (probably with the X2019) or GT races
I feel like even just a speed building competition would be atleast better than that if they really wanna take the "non-violent" angle
USA about to crank the best 90s
nice pun
School maps that’s how they doing it
@@depressedidiot5761 lmao how does the Blitzkreg feel
I have a different conspiracy theory. I think the committee doesnt actually want e sports in the Olympics, and so chose some of the worst, shittiest games (or had them made for this) so that public opinion would turn against e sports being recognized the way they deserve
Dang that actually makes sense wow
Why put Gran Tursimo 7 in then because it's got a pretty competitive Esports scene
@@scottd7222 to make people do what you are and question it. Like a veil
You are onto something, I think.
If that’s their plan, it’s a dying plan. Old people won’t watch esports anyways, and younger people wouldn’t fall for it. The generations that don’t play video games are one foot in the coffin
Only Gran Turismo 7 HAS sense to be on Olimpic Esports
BCAUSE IT SIMULATES RACING A CAR, WHICH IS A REAL SPORT
You should make a second video to this!
The Apps and Games mentioned are also owned by one of the sponsores for the olympics. They bought a studio just to lake that game for the olympics!
I like to think one of the higher-ups probably joked about fortnite and the rest of the higher-ups they were like "yeah we should put fortnite in this year's Olympics!" This Olympics is going to be embarrassing to say the least
I'm actually interested to see how they're gonna incorporate this into the Olympics, probably terribly but it'll at least be funny as all hell to see.
Target shooting on a game that uses a algorithm to determine the accuracy of your gun… there’s no actual way to perfect your accuracy you can improve it by shooting small bursts and if your reaction time is better but it’s still hot a degrees of random so you have different good people each round
Slapping matches needs to be an Olympic sport
I would've been happier if it was an edit course where players had to race each other. Twitch did that a while back and it was pretty awesome to watch. Massive display of skill
i'd like to state that back in the 2018 olympics in pyeongchang, south korea the olympics did have an exhibition tournament of starcraft 2 that was part of the olympics. the IOC has the option to host actual games at the olympics, they simply choose not to.
It's like the equivalent of taking football (soccer) and making just the crossbar challenge an olimpic sport... exciting!
well except football is a physical sport and all but i get the comparison
my thought process on why people would want esports in the olympics is that they just want more recognition to the medium. but I do agree that trying to mix it with the current olympics doesn't really work. imo we should have a separate event that is like a dedicated esports olympics that runs separately and can be more focused on things "gamers" care about.
Should have done the glorious Link's Crossbow Training
Nintendo finna sue
I would like to see extreme drone flying in the Olympics the things some people can do with those drones are amazing I would definitely watch that.
I'm not really sure how they could implement them successfully. I understand how they wouldn't want violence because it needs to be televised to a wide audience which is perfectly fine. However I think the most important thing about the Olympics is that the games or sports played are the same every year, so that at every one there is a chance to break records from the previous attempts. Videogames in general move too quickly and for the most part don't really have consistent non-violent namestays that could be replayed at every single olympics....kind of ruining the point. (unless of course, cso surfing races with subway surfers on the bottom half)
Olympics: We hate violence
Also Olympics: Next up is the boxing final
Honest question:
Will they separate Male and Female E-Athletes during the Olympics?
Does hormone therapy compromise the flick of the wrist?
I want to see Charlie stream watching the mobile game olympics so badly lmao
What are you talking about he'll be playing in it, with his own team 😂
feels like it's intentionally supposed to be bad, just so that they can never run video games again because "But when we did they performed poorly!"
I hope that’s the case
I hope that happens. Video games should stay games. E sports were the worst thing to ever happen to games
As someone said on Pippa's comment section, "i'm sure that the owner of those game's editor who's also a massive investor in the Olympics games is just a coincidence"
(there was the actual name in her comment section but i forgot)
with how big the fn world cup was it actually could have been decent in the olympics in its current meta, but they really had to do this of all things
just make a speedrun event where multiple runners run a game at the same time. That would be so much more fun
You should actually try to get into the olympics via esports and then make a video on it😂
It's like when skateboarding became an Olympic sport, anyone good wouldn't pass a drug test in a month of Sundays.
Ross Rebagliati (sp) Canadian Snowboarder tested positive for cannabis...imagine lol
I will say that the baseball game is actually pretty good/fun, it is from a long running franchise and is the most popular baseball game in Japan its just most of them never got ported to the west I believe. So at least its not a mobile game and more of a real game than most of the other entries.
"Thumb people playing baseball" is actually a decent long-running game franchise though, with its campaign mode often having a wacky anime-esque scenarios involving grand conspiracies and cyborgs despite it being about baseball, it's quite different from other sport games where they always take itself like a simulator game. I can 100% agree that it's miles away from eSports material though, what a bad idea.
If we’re doin “practice modes” for the Olympics. Have them do the combo trials in KOF 13. It takes people turning their fingers into pretzels to do that shit!
Doesn't Fortnite have bloom? It's been years since I tried the game, but that has got to be the worst possible game for target practice.
Lmao yea, RNG based olympic games
Especially when the editing is what really separates the competitive players from casual
And its what shows the most skill
yeah and aiming isn't even the main mechanic in the game it's piece control, even if you're settings are superb the aiming is pay to win with 240hz desktop aimbot. that's why there's so much more to Fortnite games because if you're smart u learn to play smarter because capitalism can't stop us but it's a multi platform game to coexist.
@@coatrak1357 thankfully zero builds exists I'm retired in build mode
What is bloom?
Its actually pretty smart to have the "eOlympics" be a thing like how Summer and Winter olympics are seperate. But this approach is pretty weak lol
ye it would also be offensive to other olympians too see fat kids who cant even do 10 pushups have the same title as them just because their parents let them take a video game full time
As others have said, if you don't want violence, Mario Kart and Tetris would be amazing. Maybe even SMM2, with new maps designed for the Olypmics
I think the issue is mainly that the people behind the Olympics are completely unable to imagine the idea of anything being a "sport" unless it follows the formula for traditional sports. Most esports are based around games that could never be a sport in real life, and they just dont understand how that could ever work as a competition
Gaming isn't a sport. Period.
@@Jeff-mn1uq with that logic chess also isn't a spot
@@mitab1 correct
@@Jeff-mn1uq what about wii-sports?
@@mitab1 gaming isn't a sport. Chess isn't a sport. Just like marching band and cheerleading aren't sports
The Onion couldn't come up with something this ridiculous. When real life has become more ridiculous than fiction.
They need to make the e sports olympics speed running the TzHaar fight caves with a Magic Bow and a 5v5 dust_2 Battle the qualifiers
Lol, I’m shocked they didn’t do a vr game in an area decked out to be some arena where two countries go to war with each other or compete in some challenge
Did not know Gran Turismo was in the Olympics, It would be hype if Charlie’s dad got a spot on the American team!
It would actually be a reason to pay attention to the Olympics for once in my life 😂.
Wait for real? No way they're using fortnite in the Olympics, we must be in the most saddest timeline if that's a thing.
It gets worse: its only shooting at non player targets.
@@J--Dubs please tell me you're lying.
@@J--Dubs yep humanity was a mistake
@@UCgx7OseCrundqkE8oEVeobgCounter point: In that universe at least fortnite wouldn't be in the Olympics
*the darkest timeline (Laughs in Abed)
Lmao I did a paper on this when I was in like middle school “should video games be a sport” 😂
This is giving off major "Ninja in Times Square" vibes
I genuinely think that what's happening with the Olympics is that they see that esports is growing and because there so far behind of any sports organization when it comes to esports they choose shitty app games (or help made them in any way shape or form) to point and say, look esports are bad the viewer ship woes not there and leave, for no reason at all
They need to add melee just so that mang can get in the lab again, you know he would want to represent the U.S.
one of my favorite childhood movie is The Wizard , hosting video game competition , if they can pull something off like that for the Olympics could be interesting. I love watching speedruns and what not , this is their first iteration so i'm not against it. your take on the Mobile phone gaming that's a big yikes you're right on that.
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore." - Professor Farnsworth
they had a huge opportunity to add trick-shotting to the olympics and they blew it smh
This is the most ‘how do you do fellow kids?’ of all time!
Mario Kart, Rocket League, Wii Sports. So many games to choose and they go with a half-assed Fortnite creative mode
we have a unique intro but damnit, Charlie, we clips fans deserve a unique outro, too
Can’t wait to see Keanu Reeves getting first second and third in Fortnight by kids who don’t know who he is. 😂
This feels like an addition that’s only gonna last for a few years then quietly get pulled due to lack of interest.
Not only Mario and Sonic at the olympic game series literally existed, it's a video game series based on the OLYMPICS. It has a series of sports you see in the Olympic games. If they wanted to involve video games so bad why not pick at least one game of that series?
Video games in the Olympics is just a joke in general
Definitely!
L opinion
@@beardsmcguiness8463 Go touch some grass
@@beardsmcguiness8463 turn off the computer and go touch some grass
@@Agony. do you all share the same brain?
I really like this extra content, thanks Charles
What will be next? Are they going to have baking contests too in the next Olympics? Maybe a pancake stacking contest...
At first i was sitting here like Fortnite in the Olympics kinda sounds dope like seeing how intense it can get is amazjng....then you hit me with the news even a dying dog wouldnt want to hear...