The IOC is in the process of seeing if video games like League of Legends are worthy to be included in the Olympics. We have strong feelings about this topic so we would love to share our thoughts with you on this topic.

By definition, a “sport” is an organized, competitive game for competition. Video Game sports (or “video game competitions”) are played through online platforms like League of Legends, Counter Strike, Dota 2, CS:GO and many more. These sports are very similar to traditional competitive sports like Soccer or Basketball. Video Games and eSports were already accepted as a full sport in South Korea and Taiwan. The Korean and Taiwanese governments also recognize e-sports as a real sport with support similar to traditional sports.

This sport has both amateur and professional players, with the international scene composed of professional teams. Pro gamers have been given scholarships from famous universities all over the world. Competitive video games have been broadcasted on television, being watched by more than 60 million people from Korea and China alone.

In Korea, you can see huge stadiums filled with people watching eSports tournaments on a daily basis. In 2013, League of Legends sold out a Staples Center in Los Angeles where 20 000 people attended to watch a tournament. The Chinese streaming platform Huya reportedly paid 3 million dollars to secure the rights to stream a year’s worth of TESPA collegiate gaming competitions in America. After the International, a Dota 2 tournament, fans spent a record-breaking 11 million dollars to watch a four-day event.

In the past years, eSports have been on the rise with millions of fans watching competitions live or streaming on their TV or PC. According to reports from Newzoo , an estimated 300 million people will be watching eSport competitions by 2020, generating almost 500 million dollars in revenue per year.

The Olympics bring awareness to new events and expand the pool of athletes from participating countries. Adding e-sports would effectively increase the number of people who could attend the Olympics.

E-sports have a lot of similarities with traditional sports, but also some differences. For example, video games have a narrative narrative where you choose the actions of a character to accomplish a goal, as opposed to a more simplistic sporting event which does not require any play style choice.

Why they should be on the Olympics

1. E sports are real sports

Video games are becoming more and more similar to other sports. The level of competition is growing, the teams are getting bigger and better. The competitive nature of eSports is comparable to the Olympic Games. The Olympics have been holding competitions for more than a century and they have evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, making billions of dollars in sponsorship and TV rights. eSports has the same potential.

2. Esports already broadcast on TV

The Olympics has been broadcasted on television for a long time. They were the first event to be broadcasted when NBC launched its Olympic channel in 1968 (and when it became known as “American Broadcasting Television” – which later changed to NBC). Just like the Olympics,  e-sports are broadcasted on television, giving the fans the opportunity to follow their favorite games and players.

3. The Olympics needs a younger audience

The Olympic Games needs a younger audience to keep its relevance with the times. This is why they have been adding different events in recent years. E-sports could be an event with a growing fan base, similar to the Olympics. A younger audience would open doors for e-sports to be included in the Olympics.

4. It’s good for the world

The Olympics is an international event which brings together people from all over the world. Bringing e-sports onto the Olympic Games would show that video games are just as deserving of being practiced as traditional sports.

5 E Sports are not extreme sports

Surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding , BMX, MotoGP, NASCAR, etc. All of these sports are not thought to be part of the Olympics because they are considered too dangerous to the athletes. However the same could not be said about e-sports like Counter Strike or Dota 2. E-sports are mostly based on skill, team work and strategy which makes them safe for most people of any age!

Why they shouldn’t be on the Olympics

1. E-sports are not “athlete” sports

Video games are not real sports because they do not require any physical exertion nor do they require you to rely on your athletic skills. E-sport professionals do not train their bodies to compete, unlike traditional sports athletes.

2. E-sport betting has a bad image

The stereotype of e-sport betting is that people who bet on games are 16 year olds playing in their parents basement. This stereotype doesn’t do any justice to the professional players who are making a living out of it. It does not show that real money is being wagered on the games, putting the integrity of the games at risk. E-sport betting wouldn’t be any different from gambling at an online casino where you can play free slots

3. A lot of the players are young

There is no age limit to play video games, which means the Olympic committee cannot set an age requirement for gamers who are competing in tournaments. If you have 16 year old kids playing CS:GO with 30 year old men, it would be unfair because the younger ones do not have the same mental strength or experience as them.

4. Esports are not as big as the other events

The current Olympic Games has over 300 different sporting events. This makes it hard for them to add e-sports tournaments since they would have to decide what sport they would cut from the list in order to add e-sports. There are a lot of sports that were once on the Olympics but were later removed, like polo and tug-of-war. E-sport tournaments don’t have a very big following at the moment and having an event is useless without a lot of people watching it.

Even if an e-sport tournament gets live TV coverage, it’s unlikely that many people would tune in just to watch because of the lack of mainstream awareness compared to traditional sports.

Conclusion

It will take international recognition to get e-sports on the Olympics. The Olympic Committee has slowly recognized video gaming as a professional sport. Adding e-sports to this event would add legitimacy to it and bring in a much needed younger audience who want to watch competitive video gaming. The Olympics can be a platform for video gaming to grow, much like it has for sports like archery and golf.

IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals today announced the final set of their replacement players. West Indian duo of Evin Lewis and Oshane Thomas will be joining the Royals squad as replacement players for the remainder of IPL 2021 to be held in the UAE from 19th September 2021.

Left-handed opening batter from Trinidad and Tobago, Evin Lewis, will be a replacement for Jos Buttler. 29-year-old Lewis had made his debut for West Indies during their 2016 World T20 campaign in India, and has 1318 runs to his name in 45 T20Is, at a strike rate of 158. The flamboyant batter has also scored 1847 runs for West Indies in 57 ODIs. His blistering performances for the national side also led him to be picked up by the Mumbai Indians in 2018, for whom he scored 430 runs in 16 matches across the 2018 and 2019 seasons.

Jamaican right-arm pace bowler, Oshane Thomas who is currently playing for the Barbados Royals in the Caribbean Premier League will be joining as a replacement for Ben Stokes in the Royals’ set-up. 24-year-old Oshane Thomas had made his international debut in 2018, having faced India in a bilateral ODI and T20I series. Since then, Thomas, a recipient of West Indies’ Emerging Player of the Year Award in 2019, has picked up 27 wickets in 20 ODIs, and 19 wickets in 17 T20Is. In the IPL, the fiery bowler has represented the Royals in 2019, picking up five wickets in four matches, and was with the franchise during the 2020 season in the UAE as well.

As the new NFL season fast approaches there is one player, above all others, who is going to be in the glare of the spotlight, that player is quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

The Kansas City Chiefs star proved in his third full season at the Arrowhead that he was a player with a bright future. In 2018 he completed 50 regular season touchdowns as his side fell in the AFC Championship game and in 2019 his ten postseason TDs clinched a Super Bowl.

Last time around he came up against veteran Tom Brady and came up short, with Tampa Bay clinching the Super Bowl despite Mahomes picking up his best postseason completion numbers.

So what can Mahomes, and Kansas City, achieve in 2021 and beyond? Well if you want to back the endeavors of the hugely talented 25-year-old, you should be paying close attention to the best sport prediction site, which not only provides you the best odds comparison information, but also gives you in-depth betting guides and tips.

So what tips should you be backing Patrick Mahomes to achieve this time around, here’s a few we’d suggest you back.

5050 Passing Yards – OVER (-110)

Yes Mahomes managed to top this number in 2018, but not in 2019 and 2020 but there are a few things to take into consideration. Firstly there’s an extra game in the regular season and Kansas City are rightfully big favorites to clinch a Super Bowl title.

There are some who feel that Andy Reid’s side will be doing more running than usual, but don’t expect that to mean Patrick Mahomes won’t still be front and center with every snap.

To Win MVP (+600)

Yes the odds aren’t great but this is still a solid prop bet given the circumstances. In 2018 Mahomes collected the NFL MVP and followed that up with a Super Bowl MVP in 2020, and there’s no sign that the Kansas City star is going to take his foot off the pedal.

His main competition will come from Aaron Rodgers, who is now sticking around at Green Bay, but remember the veteran picked up the award last season and back-to-back MVP awards don’t happen often (even Tom Brady hasn’t managed it). Indeed the last time it occurred was way back in 2009.

Regular Season Passing Touchdowns 39.5 – OVER (-110)

Again this spread is set very favorably. Over the course of his three completed regular seasons, Mahomes has averaged 38 passing TDs and Kansas City looks stronger than ever and once again, that 17th game will play a key part in making sure that this spread can be met.

Some sceptics believe the Chiefs don’t have an effective third catching option; beyond Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill, but the way Mahomes throws (particularly when he’s on his best game) it’s almost immaterial who’s out there on the end of his bullets.

We believe Mahomes will have little trouble meeting this total in the coming season and going over the spread is almost always the way to go when considering bets involving the mercurial QB.

If you enjoy watching boxing, keeping up to date with the latest boxing news, or even placing a bet on boxing now and again, you’ve come to the right place. Keep reading to keep up with the latest news that develops in boxing, so you always know what’s going on if you miss a match or two. Plus, this will help you make better bets!

Tyson Fury, The Postponement, and Covid-19

According to Fury’s promoter Bob Arum, Tyson is in high spirits and doing better than ever despite the trilogy fight with Deontay being postponed, losing his U.S arbitrator’s case, or even by testing positive for covid-19 recently. It seems nothing can bring him down.

Out of all the things that have happened to Fury in the past six months, losing his arbitration hearing with Wilder is the worst of them all. When the U.S arbitration hearing results were finally released, Fury was under the impression that he’d be getting a $100+ million payday against Anthony Joshua for August fourteenth in Saudi Arabia. However, The arbitrator ruled against Fury, claiming to fight Wilder for the third time. That choice came at a tremendous financial expense for Fury. No matter how well his promoter says, Fury is dealing with the news; losing that much money had to have been extremely difficult for Fury to process mentally.

With all of that happening, Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) stays, as usual, a calm individual who is going to be defending his WBC heavyweight title against Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) on

October ninth at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fans need to keep an eye out for this match since this could be the last time Fury and Wilder fight against one another, sadly. If the previous WBC champion Wilder doesn’t put in his best effort, he will get beaten unequivocally yet again, which should lead to the end of their rivalry.

Did Fury Genuinely Have Covid-19?

From all the evidence received, we can assume that Fury did not have Covid19. They think that Fury was getting pounded by his sparring partners and felt that there was no way to beat Wilder, so he thought of the COVID-19 excuse to give himself more time to get ready for the fight.

If the fan’s theories about Fury are true, he has three additional months to prepare for the fight against Wilder. That is time that Fury can use to bulk up to the 270s, roughly where his weight was in 202 when he fought Wilder.

In Fury’s most recent posts on social media, he’s discussed hitting the weights and attempting to develop his strength and build up his size for the trilogy match with Deontay. This supports the belief that Fury was getting beaten up by his sparring partners Jared Anderson and Efe Ajagba, so he required additional time to prepare for the fight with Wilder.

Speaking of postponing fights and the disappointments surrounding those decisions, let’s take a look at another much-anticipated fight that fans will now have to wait longer for.

The Canelo Alvarez VS Caleb Plant Fight Is No More. Who Is To Blame?

The end of dealings between boxing’s two significant power brokers, Al Haymon Canelo Alvarez, remains the main topic of discussion in the boxing community.

Yes, I get it: you love sports, like football or basketball or whatever you are into, but constantly placing bets may become a little bit repetitive. Your team won’t always win, maybe you get an unlucky losing streak and you just want to find something that can relax you a bit. Well, online casinos are exactly what you are looking for!

On sites like CASINONET you can find everything you need to start your gambling career, even if you are just a beginner. In fact, there are a lot of beginner-friendly games you can play on online casinos. These are games that won’t need you to have a deep knowledge of what you are doing to enjoy your time.

Let’s have a look at some of the games we recommend you to try. Remember: of course this is all about having some fun, but keep your attention up, because the more time you spend on a game, the more you will gain experience and learn all the tricks behind winning strategies.

The most classic of virtual games: Slot Machine.

Slot machines are the most popular choice among both experienced players and beginners. There is a varsity of slots that players can enjoy: some of them are more complex than others, offering more and more possibilities to the player to have some influence on the game’s outcome, and others are very simple and almost completely luck-based.

Your winning chances are based on the slot machine’s pay lines: these are the combination of symbols appearing on your screen that will trigger a winning outcome. The most basic slots have one pay line, which often is the central horizontal row, while others may vary in number. Of course, more pay lines mean some more chances to win.

Most casinos offer a free slot machine experience, letting you have fun without the fear of losing anything. They also often offer a daily free spin and more bonuses for newly registered members. The simplicity of the game will most certainly lead you to play more and more spins until you get too bored.

The table games’ queen: the Roulette.

Maybe you don’t want to spend too much time pressing a button hoping to trigger a weird-looking payline. Maybe you are more of a table-games-person, who enjoys the view of a comfortable green background. Then roulettes are made for you, either as a beginner or as a professional gambler.

The concept of the game is pretty simple. There are numbers from zero to 36 the ball can fall on: you have to bet on what that number will be, what will be its color, if it will be either an odd number or an even number, and so on. Your winning chances are, of course, not so high, but the game offers big winnings for quite small bets and that makes it all more worth your time.

I suggest you try either French or European roulettes, as they are the ones with the highest chances of winning. That is because they miss the double zero, which the American version has. The French variant also has a rule that basically offers you the possibility to get a refund of half your bet if you bet outside and the ball falls on zero, which only adds to its fashion.

Like slot machines, there are a lot of free roulettes you can enjoy without betting real money on their outcome. You can have some fun with them, learn some good strategy and then go straight to the real ones!

The most competitive one: Video Poker.

Yes, I know video poker, unlike classic PvP poker, doesn’t put you against other people in a last-man-standing battle, but you still get the feel of a real competition if you enter the right mood. In fact, video poker is almost completely like classical one: you just don’t have to put on your best poker face to trick your opponents, as your computer won’t really care.

It’s one of the easiest to understand online casino games, maybe easier than slot machines. In fact, if you want to really get the hang out of the game, you have to study and learn each and every table line and how to trigger it. It isn’t just a game of button-pushing. Video poker, on the other hand, is much easier to understand: you get five cards and you have to choose which ones you want to keep and which ones you want to discard, in order to obtain a table line. Those lines are quite easy to memorize: there are two pairs, three of a kind, straight (a sequence of 5 cards of consecutive value), flush (any 5 cards of the same suit), full house (a pair and a three of a kind), four of a kind (four cards of the same value), straight flush (5 consecutive cards of the same suit) and royal flush (a Ten, a Jack, a Queen, a King and an Ace of the same suit). A typical pay table starts with a simple pair of jacks, which pays even money.

There is little strategy in video poker, you can play it for fun in online digital format or even following a live dealer session. It’s also a great way to train your poker skills, or at least learn the very basics of the game.

Conclusions.

The world offers plenty of thrills for intrepid individuals and, if gambling is your thing, you should really try some good online casino action. I bet you won’t regret it!