This is very cool to hear. :)

Congrats to both gamers (:

i just fapped twice in my pants... oops there goes a third

well, gamer are people that need to be represented like other!

Honestly I have to say I disagree. I for one don't think a person should be rewarded with such a distinguished honor for excelling at a video game. What does this teach future generations? Also, I feel the core ideal behind the Olympics is at stake by allowing endorsements to manipulate said opportunities for deserving athletes.

However, since that's apparently not a concern, I would have to give my congrats to those two! I wish I had been a little more serious about warcraft 3!

Very cool thing to hear. Do I detect some realisation regarding computergaming as a sport? :P

"what are we teaching future generations"

We are teaching them that times are changing, and as we move into the technological revolution of software and electronics, our idea of what about a human needs to be judged changes. The idea of WC3 champions is not "they are the best at playing silly games", but that their brains communicate ideas, strategies, and concepts at amazing speeds. The Olympics should not just be about physical betterment but mental betterment also.

To be the world's best at anything takes skill, and i believe *that* is the reason for the Olympics: to bring countries together to compete in many many different skills and talents to see who is the best.

I don't agree with the ethics of this. Computer gaming has nothing to do with the Olympics. All Olympic sports are based on physical strength, endurance, agility, skill, etc. Computer games are completely different. And please don't counter my argument by claiming that gaming qualifies because you have to have great hand eye coordination. Please, you are just sitting there looking at a monitor, clicking.

Well, after doing some research, I renounce the above statements. If archery and shooting are Olympic sports, *** it why not gaming.

Hah, it takes a lot of practice and natural ability to hit a target with a bow. As for shooting, hitting a target many yards away several times in a precise, accurate manor is also no easy task. All it takes to be good at a computer game is interest, and a hell of a lot of time on your hands (pun not intended, but all together true).

Oh, and computer gaming is as much a sport as chronic masturbation. Oddly enough, the two seem forever entangled with each other.

There are already many groups assigned to the task of rewarding those with remarkable intelligence. For example there is Mensa, as well as the Einstein Society. The Olympics give nations the opportunity to display the abilities of their citizens to compete in exceedingly difficult physical competitions.

As far as your comment "to be the world's best anything requires skill" goes, I cannot disagree with that. However I believe you are missing the point of my initial post.

In my personal belief a person should be "judged" on the impact they have upon those who surround them. Wasting one's life away by bettering themselves in a video game is a serious epidemic. There are many causes present in today's world that require more attention than they receive. This digital age has done nothing but train the future of tomorrow, being the youth of today, to ignore the events transpiring around them.

Through a sponsorship deal with peripheral manufacturer Razer, XiaoFeng "Sky" Li and Jae ho "Moon" Jang will both bear the torch as it passes through China en route to the Beijing National Stadium.

Only the Chinese could be despicable enough to perpetrate a travesty such as this on the rich culture of the Ancient Greeks. This goes against the very foundation of the Olympics, the notion of Peace, Liberty, and Peaceful Coexistence. Although, I'm surprised the Chinese are even allowed to host them considering the kind of horrors they have inflicted not only on their own people, but their neighbors (Tibet being only the most obvious example).

The fact that the Olympics, the last athletic endeavor to hold out to corporate big bucks, has succumbed to "mighty" peripheral manufacturers is further proof that humanity has nothing left to live for.