Half a decade ago the International Olympic Committee agreed to include eSports in the Olympic Games as an official discipline. The inclusion was scheduled for this year’s Beijing Winter Olympic Games, however this was brought forward to the 2021 Olympic Virtual Series. The International Olympic Committee has decided to continue with the integration of electronic sport, therefore, has announced the first Olympic eSports Week.
The inclusion of the eSports have been swarming around the idea of officially annexing them for a long time within an Olympic Games, and although it has not yet been the case, the creation of the first Olympic eSports Week is a great step forward for the advancement of esports in popular culture.
The first Olympic eSports week will take place in 2023
The first eSports Olympic Week will be held in the city-state of Singapore, lasting 4 days from June 22 to June 25, 2023 and will have different activities apart from the sport itself, such as discussion panels, conferences, technological revelations and even educational sessions. In relation to the games, not much has been said, but the International Olympic Committee has detailed that they will bring the best of electronic, hybrid and simulated physical sports.
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Among the list of games to speculate, we can rule out those that present violence, as the sponsors have opposed it, instead, among the genres confirmed for the event we can find cycling, sailing, rowing, baseball and several related to motor sports. We don’t know to what extent sponsors understand a game to be violent, it’s obvious that we won’t see Call of Duty on the list, but the most popular eSports title undoubtedly belongs to League of Legends, which is not explicitly a game. violent.