The next Olympics should include Fortnite

Fortnite has <i>way</i> too many problems to even be anywhere near considered ready for an esport presented in the Olympics.<p>Fortnite still has a large amount of luck involved. Even the most skilled players have to rely on luck to be able to get the high leveled items they need to succeed in the long game. While current competitions have tried to lessen this by having multiple rounds over and over in attempt at giving all players a fairer chance, the luck aspect is still there.<p>All other games with a heavily established esports base uses games with much lower levels of luck, and are centered around the balance of skill and strategy. CS:GO, League of Legends, Rocket League, Valorant, Super Smash Bros, etc. are all centered around the player or team&#x27;s skill and&#x2F;or strategy. Luck is either minimal or non existent.<p>The Olympics should be about skill, never about luck.

Olympic games should be activities that will remain largely the same for decades, or forever.<p>Fortnite, or any eSport game out today, will not be a thing 40 years from now, let alone 4. You can&#x27;t have records when the game constantly changes.

The Olympics doesn&#x27;t currently include any competition fully controlled by a corporation. Why would you want to introduce this?

&quot;The idea that an activity, rather than a substance, can be addictive is contentious among doctors&quot; As a person who has been struggling with video game addiction, especially in order to combat the loneliness I have been experiencing during the pandemic, I would disagree. While it is unlikely one would get an addiction in terms of physical dependency, psychological addiction is a whole other question. That being said, one can also get addicted to exercise, so I guess its not a reason to keep it out of the Olympics!

&quot;Why the next economist article should include name of an author or at least pseudonym&quot; So I can know who writes this bs.

IMHO, Olympic sports should never have their playerbase entirely beholden to one corporation who makes all the “equipment” (in the case of a e-sport, the game itself.)<p>An Olympic e-sport should probably have <i>at least</i> a FOSS reference implementation, if not multiple competing implementations all inter operating on the same network.<p>It is also very important (much moreso than for conventional sports) for e-sports rules to be driven by a rules body external to the league owners—hopefully one with membership open to any interested organization.

Please, any game except Fortnite or any of the DoTA variants. The last thing the Olympics needs is to be infiltrated by a half million 12 years older throwing hard Rs.

Another Olympic discipline could be programming...

Obviously it would be a win for the Olympics to include Fortnite. After all, Fortnite makes more money than the Olympics and is more popular than almost all Olympic sports. It would provide inroads to the more valuable younger audiences that the Olympics are starting to lose. But why would Fortnite want to give up control of its product to the Olympics?

League of Legends was introduced in the last Asian games, I think when they tried to get it included in the Olympics it was rejected on the basis of promotion of violence. So we&#x27;ll see how it goes this time

I&#x27;ve always wanted Japanese style dodge ball (with inner and outer courts) to be an Olympic sport.

What about Beer Pong and Dodgeball?

I&#x27;m on board if quake 3 will be in the olympics, and especially defrag.

Maybe 1000 years after it includes chess.