agree with --- Because it's nonsense. Being a gamer or contester doesn't make
you an
> athlete.
>
> Mike, NT6X
it is a different kind of sport, not an athlete, I do not care how many hours
they stayed up with pills OR Red Bull.
Joe w6vnr
-----Original Message-----
>From: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
>Sent: Jun 28, 2014 2:32 PM
>To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "College recruiting gamers as athletes "
>
>
>Radiosport and video games are, however, competition ... with both of
>them having elements that are every bit as intense as any athletic
>competition. I fully agree that gamers and contesters are not
>"athletes" per se, but I think I could argue pretty solidly that
>colleges and universities originally created athletic scholarships to
>promote competition far more than they did pure athletics (fitness,
>etc). If we were to think of these scholarships in that context it
>wouldn't sound like nonsense at all.
>
>Not that I expect that radiosport would ever qualify for scholarship
>consideration. There isn't enough general interest in what we do for
>anybody to pay to watch us do it while video games, on the other hand,
>are reaching that point. In places like Korea it is already a very
>large spectator sport with top tier players earning upwards of a hundred
>thousand dollars per year and having rock star status. I'm pretty sure
>that nobody bid on the streaming video rights for WRTC this year ....
>
>73,
>Dave AB7E
>
>
>On 6/28/2014 12:46 PM, Mike Baker wrote:
>> Because it's nonsense. Being a gamer or contester doesn't make you an
>> athlete.
>>
>> Mike, NT6X
>>
>>
>>
>> If they can do it for this, why not radiosporting, which is, as everyone
>> should-but-does-not know, was the worlds First Massive Multiplayer
>> Online Game.
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve
>> NN4X
>>
>>
>> By John Keilman, Tribune reporter
>>
>> 11:01 p.m. CDT, June 23, 2014
>>
>> The idea came to Kurt Melcher, not surprisingly, when he was online
>> searching for video games.
>>
>> Melcher is associate athletic director at Robert Morris University, a
>> Chicago-based university that gives out 1,400 athletic and activity
>> scholarships across its 10 Illinois campuses as a way of recruiting and
>> retaining students. But it occurred to him that one sport, rapidly
>> growing in popularity, was missing from the scholarship roster.
>>
>> After a little research and the blessing of the university's
>> administration, that's about to change. Robert Morris this fall
>> evidently will be the first school in the country to offer athletic
>> scholarships to students who play the video game "League of Legends."
>> It's a move that seems to stretch the definition of sports and athletes.
>>
>> "It's a team sport," Melcher said. "There's strategy involved. You have
>> to know your role in the game. Obviously it's not cardiovascular in any
>> way, but it's mental. There are elements that go into it that are just
>> like any other sport."
>>
>> [ SNIP ]
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