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.
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 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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
@@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 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.
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
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
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).
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"
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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
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 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
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...
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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'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.
Well last time the lineup was DOTA 2, King of Fighters, Hearthstone, and StarCraft 2 but now ? lol They did collaboration with the International Olympic Committee. And Charlie E-OL have been around for a long time since 2000 just called world cyber games..
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!
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
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
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)
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 😂.
funny, i was just thinking about dusting off my shooting gear and practicing to see if maybe i could compete in the 2028 Olympics for rifle shooting 3 position, but I don't think i want to be associated with them anymore
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.
It should've been Nintendo's Track and Field from '83, American Gladiators on the Sega Genesis from '92, and Wii Sports or Resort to have a nice span of gaming over the last few decades.
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)
If there's a game in Olympic esport it should be a game that is "constant" games like Counter strike or Tetris that gets almost zero updates. Games that is the same for many many years. Games that when you comeback after 30 years you'll only have to read a page of changes, max.
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.
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