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Commonwealth Esports Championships running alongside this year’s Commonwealth GamesExploring potential future relationships between sports and esports
Exploring potential future relationships between sports and esports
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The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial multi-sport international competition—a bit like the Olympics, but about fragments of the former British Empire. This year’s event is in Birmingham, England. And running alongside it, allied but quite separate, will be a Commonwealth Esports Championships. Organised with the Global Esports Federation and British Esports Association with support from a tourism fund, it’ll see ethletes from across the Commonwealth duking it across a variety of genres in yet-unconfirmed games.
“Commonwealth Esports Championships provides an excellent opportunity to pilot esports close to the Commonwealth Games,” said Commonwealth Games Federation president Louise Martin intoday’s announcement.
“This will allow us to review the long-term relationship between the Commonwealth Games and esports as we continue to evolve and explore future editions of our event and what they could look like.”
The Daily Mail, an English tabloid who broke the news early, say Valve’s MOBADota 2might be on the table. It’s not clear where they’re pulling that from. While the Daily Mail’s output is 50% shite and 40% ‘culture war’ trolling hey, this might be part of the legit 10%.
When will esports be part of the Commonwealth Games proper? I don’t care. I’m perfectly happy with esports continuing as its own thing in its own form.
