Redeye Rants About \u201cPompous\u201d Olympics Committee on Bringing Esports to Olympic Games Renowned esports broadcaster Paul \u201cRedeye\u201d Chaloner spoke passionatley about the potential for esports events at the Olympics, calling those on the committee \u2018pompous\u2019. The Paris 2024 Olympics committee have reportedly discussed the potential of having esports as a medal event at the games, which has split opinion both within esports and in the mainstream. From an esports perspective, the main issue is that President of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach has said that any esports inclusion \u201cmust not infringe upon Olympic values.\u201d That means any \u2018promotion or demonstration of violence\u2019 would be a \u201cred line\u201d, so there could be no Counter-Strike, League of Legends, Overwatch Call of Duty, Rainbow Six, Dota2, fighting games or even Fortnite, and the list goes on. Redeye suggests this \u201cvetting\u201d of esports is an entitled view, and that the Olympics needs esports more than esports needs the Olympics. \u201cIt\u2019s time that we stopped pandering to other sports, to let them into us. They need us more than we need them now. I don\u2019t care about the Olympics, I really don\u2019t. I love Mo Farah and what he\u2019s achieved, I think all the sports, the men and women and the disabled people involved are all incredible. It\u2019s nothing to do with that whatsoever. I also happen to think that someone like s1mple or coldzera or Ryan Hart, or any of the amazing people involved in our world, are also capable of incredible things.\u201d He goes on to say that esports already has the necessary infrastructure, events and talent in place to operate itself \u2013 without Olympics involvment. \u201cWe\u2019ve already got it. We\u2019ve got ESL One Cologne, we\u2019ve got Katowice stadium, the majors coming to the UK. We\u2019ve got FaceIT, DreamHack, StarLadder. We\u2019ve got incredible people all around the world \u2013 North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, everywhere. Doing incredible things that make me smile, that give me enjoyment, that promote my passion for what we\u2019re doing. I don\u2019t need the Olympics to prove any of that. [\u2026] It just feels pompous as f*** to me that these olympian people can come in and think they can include this \u2013 I DON\u2019T CARE!\u201d Watch Redeye\u2019s passionate rant in full below, courtesy of the official LuckBox YouTube channel where he is joined by Sujoy Roy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Redeye Rants About \u201cPompous\u201d Olympics Committee on Bringing Esports to Olympic Games Renowned esports broadcaster Paul \u201cRedeye\u201d Chaloner spoke passionatley about the potential for esports events at the Olympics, calling those on the committee \u2018pompous\u2019. The Paris 2024 Olympics committee have reportedly discussed the potential of having esports as a medal event at the games, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}