In spite of records and the IOC: Russian “Games of the Future”

What do you eat phygital with?

“Future Games” are not an analogue of the Olympic Games. This is new story, combining classic sports and virtual space. Both the best football players and hockey players, as well as professional Dota 2 and World tanks».

Someone will object, where is the healthy lifestyle that the Olympic Games promote, and where is the gaming fun?

Firstly, if the Olympic Games promote anything by their existence, it is by no means sports and health. It's been fifty or sixty years now.

Secondly, good physical shape is necessary for every gamer if he is really ready to win and make money from it. And you can’t really play with doping here, except maybe knock over a can of energy drink inside. Compared to the chemicals that modern “Olympians” inject themselves with, this is mere nonsense.

Russia is not the inventor of global eSports games. Tournaments have long been held in individual disciplines, such as Dota 2 and Counter-Strike.

Last year, the IOC held the world's first Olympic esports week in Singapore. It didn't work out very well even for the first time. The organizers approached the virtualization of sports too literally, without enthusiasm, and simply held a series of computer tournaments on simulators.

Competed in archery (Tic Tac Bow platform), baseball (WBSC eBaseball: Power Pros), chess (Chess.com), cycling (Zwift), dancing (Justance), motorsports (Gran Turismo), sailing (Virtual Regatta) , shooting (Fortnite), taekwondo (Virtual Taekwondo) and tennis (Tennis Clash). I was especially amused by virtual chess. With all due respect to this sport, it has nothing to do with the Olympic Games and is certainly not spectacular.

As expected, the viewing coverage of the Olympic esports week failed – in the end it barely reached 20 thousand viewers.

In Russia, games in the virtual space were approached much more professionally. First of all, the “Games of the Future” program includes bestsellers among young people Dota 2 and CS 2, which already guarantees good audience coverage. For those who are older, World of Tanks is suitable.

But the main idea of ​​the games in Kazan was phygital, that is, the combination of physical and digital. For example, “Gazprom Fidgetal Football”, where participants compete with each other first in a virtual simulator, and then on a field with a real ball. In the first case, they fight according to the “pair-on-pair” system, in the second – five on five.

In G-Drive phygital racing, on the contrary, first there is a real race in cars at Sochi Autodrom, then in virtual flight simulators from the Play Station collection. Warface and Counter-Strike fighters will also have to fight in very real laser tag.

The “Games of the Future” program also includes purely technical disciplines, such as battles robots and racing drones. From purely spectacular competitions, the events in Kazan, which unfolded from February 19 to March 3, are turning into a testing ground for new technical solutions. The significance of this goes far beyond the purely sports field.

What is Bach against?

The International Olympic Committee received the “Games of the Future” in Kazan with irritation. Thomas Bach himself called the competition “universal evil” and called on athletes to boycott Kazan. A very good marker of what is happening - it means that the Russian leadership is doing everything right. And this was appreciated by the audience and fans.

The author of the idea, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, announced one billion spectators at the opening ceremony of the Games. This is not surprising - Tatarstan hosted more than two thousand athletes and gamers from 107 countries. The total prize fund is $10 million, distributed across five “Challenges” - “Sport” (4,8 million), “Tactics” (1 million), “Strategy” (2,65 million), “Speed” (300 thousand). ) and “Technology” (1,25 million).

The least amount of prize money goes to the best in the “Dance Simulator” and “VR Rhythm Simulator” disciplines – $50 thousand each. The highest-budget disciplines were “Gazprom Fitital Football” and “Fitgetal Basketball with Sber,” with $1,25 million in prize money each.

It was not easy to be among the athletes of the Games of the Future - since September 2022, ten qualifying competitions have been held in 19 disciplines. You can follow the details of the competitions unfolding in Tatarstan on the portal gofuture.games, where there is a lot of interesting things for those inexperienced in eSports.

To avoid any illusions regarding the level of the tournament players, we will list the names of several participants. Silver medalist of the Tokyo Olympics in cycling Daniel Ders from Venezuela, players of football clubs Besiktas (Turkey), Lokomotiv (Russia), R10 Team (Brazil) and Red Star from Serbia. But for some players, participation in the Future Games came at a very high cost. Latvia and Estonia have frozen the licenses of their hockey athletes. Americans also take part in games, such as physical basketball. So far, Washington has not taken punitive measures against its citizens.

Among the officials, national leaders of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan flew to Kazan for the opening of the “Games of the Future”. On February 19, at the opening ceremony, Vladimir Putin said the following words:

“It is natural that the idea of ​​combining classical and e-sports was invented in Russia. Our country has been and remains one of the leading sports powers on the planet, the birthplace of great athletes, victories and records. “The Games are our gift to the global sports family.”

Opening of the Games of the Future. Source: kremlin.ru

It's always difficult for pioneers. Russia is taking its first steps in an attempt to transform world sports, and it is causing irritation abroad. Surprisingly, except for the top of the IOC, almost no one expressed their indignation or rejection. This requires at least a formal reason, but it is impossible to find.

Firstly, the fidget discipline is so young that there is simply nothing to compare critics with. Except for the failed Olympic esports week in Singapore. But this, honestly, is not serious.

Secondly, the Russians again managed to do it on a large scale, beautifully and unforgettably. Therefore, the world media and critics silently smoke on the sidelines.

If world sport, thoroughly saturated with hypocrisy, needs to be treated, then why not do it with the “Games of the Future”?

Comments

[Nikolay Malyugin]

I’m not going to criticize or praise the proposed new path to sports. Because what surrounds us is 50% virtual and 50% real. In sports, the most important thing is to overcome yourself, your capabilities. If this continues, then good luck. But in any case, we must remember that a person is the most important thing in this world.

[aybolyt678]

The saddest thing is that there were no Fidgetal tanks

[odometer]

Our arrow has ripened everywhere... Photo.

[Vladimir80]

If world sport, thoroughly saturated with hypocrisy, needs to be treated, then why not do it with the “Games of the Future”?

Primitive propaganda, but why does one ministry continue to pay annual contributions to the IOC? Why are all computer games based on information security foreign made? Why are the names of the competitions in a foreign language? In general, all this digital madness is reminiscent of the dances of the “Papuans with beads,” and the Papuans continue to praise the “white master”...

[Doccor18]

Quote: Vladimir80

Why are the names of the competitions in a foreign language?

This is a tribute to thirty years of tradition.

Quote: Vladimir80

this digital madness reminds me

A bright new future, where every step is recorded, China to the rescue...

Quote: Vladimir80

Why does one ministry continue to pay annual dues to the IOC?

Hope dies last...

[KCA]

Because the international language in the computer field is English. Because even if there are suitable popular games of domestic development, it is not a fact that in all participating countries these games are generally known, and WoT is not entirely a foreign development, created by a Belarusian company, I am sure that not without the participation of Russian programmers

[AdAstra]

So Belarus is not part of the Russian Federation, which means Belarusians are foreigners.

[KCA]

But what about the United State? Our troops are organized into joint groups, our air defense and tactical nuclear weapons are located in the Republic of Belarus, there are no visas, no customs duties, there is no requirement to obtain a patent for work, and so, probably, foreigners

[AdAstra]

No, it doesn’t exist, de facto. And what you wrote also happens to non-“allied” people.

[Mishka78]

Quote: Vladimir80

Why are all computer games based on information security foreign made?

And prizes for participants are announced in enemy US dollars :)
But in general, the idea is not bad. You also need to be able to throw dust in your eyes. It worked out quite well with the Olympics, for example.
And if suddenly Kazan becomes some kind of eSports center, that’s great, in fact.

[Vladimir80]

And prizes for participants are announced in enemy US dollars :)

+ 1000!

and this is in a country at war... in short, another chattering and throwing "porridge" of brains to the remnants of the population...

[lis-ik]

Quote: Vladimir80

And prizes for participants are announced in enemy US dollars :)

+ 1000!

and this is in a country at war... in short, another chattering and throwing "porridge" of brains to the remnants of the population...

"The Hunger Games" movie comes to mind.

[your1970]

Quote: Mishka78

And prizes for participants are announced in enemy US dollars :)

Do rubles already circulate in Venezuela or Lithuania?

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: your1970

Do rubles already circulate in Venezuela or Lithuania?

So, in a society with gay people, you will also have to conform?
Has Serezhenka already reached the point of absurdity in hurray-of-approval?

[your1970]

Quote: Ingvar 72

Quote: your1970

Do rubles already circulate in Venezuela or Lithuania?

So, in a society with gay people, you will also have to conform?
Has Serezhenka already reached the point of absurdity in hurray-of-approval?

I'm embarrassed to ask - where is the approval here?
Assuming that foreign athletes cost bucks entice?
Or is your personal hostility wedging the remnants of your brain?

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: your1970

Or is your personal hostility wedging the remnants of your brain?

Yes, logic “smokes” as usual. The state is loudly broadcasting about the transition to payments in rubles, and here you seem to be justifiably clever about the prize money in dollars. Or have you been misunderstood again?

[your1970]

Quote: Ingvar 72

Quote: your1970

Or is your personal hostility wedging the remnants of your brain?

Yes, logic “smokes” as usual. The state is loudly broadcasting about the transition to payments in rubles, and here you seem to be justifiably clever about the prize money in dollars. Or have you been misunderstood again?

For the Chinese, Zimbabweans and you personally

Quote: your1970

I'm embarrassed to ask - where is it? approvals?
Assuming that foreign athletes have to bucks entice?

Where is the approval here?? In what word? What does the state promise bucks to at least somehow lure foreigners for pretentiousness?

Z.y
I always knew that “Togliatti is a damned place” - I didn’t know that this also spread to people (and their brains) from there.

[Mordvin 3]

Quote: Mishka78

And prizes for participants are announced in enemy US dollars :)

At the same time they write that there is no doping. If only they had made a wreath of dandelions as a prize, then we could have believed it.

[AdAstra]

Yeah - Cargo cult... """""

[Knell wardenheart]

Why are all computer games based on information security foreign made?

Because our own market is microscopic, loans are expensive, and in plentiful markets our game developers may no longer be particularly welcome. Because our state will not delve into their problems and contribute to the formation of some kind of unified subscription and promotion platform like Steam or Battlenet. And without the support of the state, its own resources and coordination between game makers will not be enough and they will each swim in their own puddle.
A lot of nuances, in short. We have great programmers - but Indians work cheaper, we have great game designers, but in Asia there are also a ton of them and they also work cheaper, we also don’t really like new ideas, we are not ready to allocate normal money for them and give freedom to the creators to implement them - and behind the hill there are better places. These are all moments, each of which could be worked out and improved - but no one will do this, of course.

[Plate]

Quote: Knell Wardenheart

Because our state will not delve into their problems and contribute to the formation of some kind of unified subscription and promotion platform like Steam or Battlenet.

Why should the state do this? What is bad about VK Play in this regard? In my opinion, its only negative is the lack of foreign toys (they left) with the same lack of Russian alternatives (there are none at all). But this is not a platform problem. Although there seem to be Chinese multiplayer games there.

Quote: Knell Wardenheart

And without the support of the state, its own resources and coordination between game makers will not be enough and they will each swim in their own puddle.

When I heard about the allocation of money for the Troubles, I thought that maybe from here government investment in the gaming industry would finally begin. But, looking at what is happening around this Troubles (including how it looked during the recent show), I am afraid that the experiment will be considered a failure and will not be repeated.

Quote: Knell Wardenheart

These are all moments, each of which could be worked out and improved - but no one will do this, of course.

I still hope that it is due to the lack of foreign competition. There are positive developments. No matter how ashamed the same Atomic Heart was, he still seemed to shoot well from here. There are materials circulating about a couple more Russian projects, in addition to the Time of Troubles. Look, they even tried to roll out the Russian game engine. I don’t know how successful this idea is given the existence of UE, but nevertheless, something is happening.
I hope that the Games of the Future will also turn in the right direction and become, among other things, a place for high-profile game announcements, releases and demonstrations of demos.

[Knell wardenheart]

Why should the state do this?

Because we are messing up an over-centralized and regulated paternalistic system. If you have collected a lot of things for yourself - please, produce honey, as they say.

What is bad about VK Play in this regard?

Probably because we ourselves blocked other people’s social networks. networks with huge coverage - and the same thing will happen with our social networks over the hill.

When I heard about the allocation of money for the Troubles, I thought that maybe government investment in the gaming industry would finally begin from here

State participation in the creation of content in its current form scares me - these will be derivatives of the “Cinema Fund”, when threads of crude propaganda will stick out from the product in all directions and it itself will be like mushrooms that have been boiled 20 times before being served. I rather advocate that the state simply build bridges in the field of creating a single platform (like Steam) that collects and promotes Russian games in general (including on the domestic market). Here you need to act first of all as an organizer, liaison and coordinator, and then as a purse, if needed. The state should be the organizing authority, so to speak.
There will also be a benefit from this - it will allow us to capture foreign markets in a more targeted and organized manner. After all, just in addition to the gaming industry, there is also fan content, fan goods, and so on. Something that can also be used to load capacity and benefit from it.

No matter how ashamed the same Atomic Heart was, he still shot from here as if well

I cried at the cranberry level in this game. But yes, it’s probably better than nothing.
I am all for the development of domestic cinema or games, but I see the depravity of our system in supporting such projects (a long and oppressive paw stitching everything with white threads and dumping a dump truckload of restrictions on the creators), and in the absence of such support, it usually ends up being very cost-effective . And the beauty and curse of Western content and games is that when creating there is much more money and freedom of collective creativity without regard to the “big brother”, and even the increasing number of dark agendas cannot be compared with our limitations and specifics.

Now, unfortunately, I do not see any stable optimistic trends. Certain episodes, yes, do happen.

[Plate]

Quote: Knell Wardenheart

State participation in the creation of content in its current form scares me - these will be derivatives of the “Cinema Fund”, when threads of crude propaganda will stick out from the product in all directions and it itself will be like mushrooms that have been boiled 20 times before being served.

Yes, to be honest, for your health - put in as much as you like. Unlike movies, a game can be successful without a good plot, without well-thought-out characters, and so on. The famous Call of Duty series is an example of this. Or multiplayer games. Or strategy, sandbox games. Having heard about the funding of the Troubles, I began to have hopes for a good technical part - graphics, animation, mechanics, and so on. But, apparently, alas.

Quote: Knell Wardenheart

I cried at the cranberry level in this game.

And I laughed at this level. This is why she was brought in, isn’t it? And the main thing is that pushing robots on Moskvich should be fun.

Quote: Knell Wardenheart

And the beauty and curse of Western content and games is that when creating there is much more money and freedom of collective creativity without regard to the “big brother”

I'm inclined to agree. But, I think, if we talk about the development strategy of the Russian gaming industry, then I think the most important thing now is to accumulate experienced technical specialists. You also need to be able to work with graphics, animations, physics and other things. They can grow up fed by “big brother”, and then take on something independent of him.

[KCA]

VK is not alone, at least mail.ru, 4game

[Plate]

The last time I visited the Mail.ru Game Center, it seems, was even before VK became a master there. Or are you talking about something else?

[KCA]

Their range of games is different, yet there is a division, not just one dump, where the same thing is for different offices, like KB and Bristol, they seem to have merged in ecstasy, but the products are different, so is X5 with its own retailers. M-Video and Eldorado

[Ilgizl]

Absolutely everything is true about the lack of your own games and platforms. We think alike. I’ll also add that our initiative failed with state support for such an idea, and for what reason do you think... and you’ll guess, as in other areas. Moreover, China, for example, was able to create its own company with state participation and support. Now he buys up foreigners, translates them, removes what they don’t like and releases them himself. Along the way, he earns money and invests in mobile phones, because they have little imagination, they are only good at copying.

[dmi.pris1]

It made me smile about the “best football players and hockey players.” The Olympic Games have ceased to be those Games since the 80s. When the participation of professionals was officially allowed. It is clear that professional sports had participated before, and then the collapse of the socialist camp occurred and the games became an instrument of foreign policy Western world. There is no need to regret that we do not participate in this booth. There were Spartakiads of peoples (the USSR too), etc. This direction needs to be developed

[S.Z.]

“Why are all the computer games on IS foreign-made? And why are the names of the competitions in a foreign language?”

1. Because there are no others or no one will play them.
2. Because the purpose of these games lies outside of Russia.

[parusnik]

One of the science fiction writers of the “collective West” has a story about the future of sports, where robots compete in sports matches. A bright future has arrived and it turned out that it is cheaper to invest money in cars than in the development of sports, including doping, why? make robots out of people, when you can just make biorobots for fun... An old story, from the 60s, was published either in Iskatel or in the magazine Around the World

[Vadim S]

Yes, this has already become a reality, not long ago such people, who always sit in company, were called one bad word, but now they are cyber-athletes! But simple real sports shoes have become unfashionable, but now they are increasingly pushing all sorts of previously abnormal things and concepts, so they have achieved

[Egoza]

Quote: parusnik

It’s cheaper to invest money in cars than in the development of sports, including doping, why make robots out of people when you can just make biorobots for fun..

That's why the IOC got worried. So it won’t take long to lose the feeder.

[Korsar4]

The “Man of Steel” was caught. The old model had to be replaced by the owner. In a fight against a robot. The round lasted almost. Sad and good story.

[mz]

There is also an old, rather funny story by Thomas Sullivan, “Mickey Mouse the Olympian,” about Olympic athletes with genetic modifications. It's quite funny, very short, about the rivalry between the USA and the USSR.

[UA3QHP]

about the Olympic Games of athletes with genetic modifications.

Lukyanenko has a thicker book on this topic called “Genome”.

[dummy]

Hmmm, the current Bach is similar to the great composer, like an organ is similar to an organ.

[Dimy4]

...games in Kazan...

Pilaf is cooked in a cauldron, and games are held in Kazan. Typo.

[Yuri L]

I also remembered that in the same Yekaterinburg, instead of the vile Universiade, in August 2023 they held a luxurious Student Sports Festival. Spectators, however, were not allowed into the stands; my friends and I didn’t manage to get anywhere, and they didn’t really show anything on TV (and why should they, any irresponsible spectators, look at the Sacred). The main thing is that half the city was blocked off movement so that Security for 12 days takes previously unattainable Heights! So let's win!

[kor1vet1974]

We are waiting for the creation of an international committee on phygital, all the flags will come to visit us and there is no need to engage in sports, but why? When it can be imitated. There are imitated black and red caviar..

[Plate]

The gaming industry is already larger than the sports industry. A lot of money circulates there, advanced digital technologies are invented and used there, it creates a great demand for computer technology and specialists of various types. But yeah... why would we try to develop such nonsense, right?
I won’t say that the Games of the Future directly contribute to this development, but I think they at least make it clear that the state is at least somewhat interested in this.

PS Some people sometimes like to talk about how important it is to make the right cartoons and films. Well, the games market is also larger than the movie market. And much more.

[Totor5]

They also say that someone wanted to do Olymriad with a doping permit. At least it's honest

[Ghost1]

Beautiful, large-scale, unforgettable and expensive. Of course, we can surprise the world with this. But are these costs worth it? At precisely this moment, when the country is going through a difficult period, there is always somewhere to invest money within the country for development.

[tatra]

Money for the development of the country is nothing, money for self-PR is everything.

[Andrey Moskvin]

We still have to wait for the benefits from development, but PR works quickly.

[Portos Portosjan]

New Vasyuki will become an interplanetary center for pidgey competitions... ugh, you fingies... In short, beauty is far away!!!!

[populist]

Let's speak directly. We've gone completely crazy with this digitalization.

[Skif3216]

Tank biathlon from the world of sports, with the same benefits, plus they added e-sports like for youth. None of the tops. a dozen downed pilots who came for money like the Turks and Brazilians, even China sent a second division, and regarding the 107 countries there, judging by the names on the lists of teams, our former compatriots were gathered for extras, a billion spectators in VK, well, not such miracles happened there. Advertising about the fact of an eSports event in our time went through government services and radio, many bloggers friendly to us found out almost on the day it started. Why at the youth festival there were so many officials who sat with absent persons is unclear. Of the advantages of Tokayev’s arrival, there is a chance that Kazakhstan will not go under China.

[Ross xnumx]

Thomas Bach himself called the competition “universal evil” and called on athletes to boycott Kazan.

The main guy himself?!
Universal evil - competitions of women shaking their ass and politicization of refereeing...
In the film “Asterix at the Olympic Games” there was a beetle test... And at modern Olympic Games it’s time to introduce a beetle test...
Disgusting and disgusting action

[cpls22]

In fact, sport is primarily about regular activity and improvement through competition. So everything is correct. Health greatly depends on the proper activity of the brain, and its regular activity, even in virtual form, also has a positive effect. Of course, such activities cannot replace physical exercise, but they can reproduce the psychological aspects of sport, and this is also significant for health.

[Ivan Seversky]

The whole point of this “esports” event for “athletes” with myopia and carpal tunnel syndrome is the justification for the existence of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. Before the 2012 Olympics, the Ministry of Sports completely “gave up” on mass sports - in December 2012, coaches of sports schools lost their status as teachers (this means a 56-day vacation and early retirement), because the ministry was too lazy to accredit sports schools as educational organizations ( 11 years later it was returned).
Despite Russia’s non-admission to the Olympics since 2019, the main priority of the Ministry of Sports is still elite sport; in the reporting statistics collected from the regions, consisting of hundreds of positions, athletes below the 1st category are not mentioned at all. It is difficult to develop mass sports; you need to really work here.

Professional sports are quickly losing popularity in the world; they are simply part of the entertainment industry and nothing more. Before the 2021 Olympic Games, 97% of Russians did not know the name of a single athlete who would compete. In the USA, the opening of the Olympics in 2021 was watched by 16.7 million viewers (in 2012 - 40.7 million).
Spectator sports: football, hockey, figure skating, etc. exist perfectly well without Olympiads and government support,

In my opinion, the only reasonable solution is to completely stop state support for elite sports, disband the Ministry of Sports and transfer the saved funds to support children's sections and create infrastructure for amateur sports.
This will correspond to the ideals of the creator of the Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, who advocated the popularization of mass sports, and not the competition of professional athletes - the latter was banned from the Olympic Games.
Professional jumpers, shot throwers, sledders can find sponsors or go to the national economy, they say that there are just not enough workers there.

[Vladimir80]

In my opinion, the only reasonable solution is to completely stop state support for elite sports, disband the Ministry of Sports and transfer the saved funds to support children's sections and create infrastructure for amateur sports.

a very sensible proposal, but here they will do the opposite... some people love sports very much, and even postponed one adventure to “after the Olympics”

[cpls22]

Quote: Ivan Seversky

the only reasonable solution is a complete cessation of state support for elite sports, the dissolution of the Ministry of Sports and the transfer of saved funds to support children's sections and the creation of infrastructure for amateur sports.

I completely agree. Professional sports is an oxymoron, in a way.
Only for the scale of change of accents it is not necessary racesformation, and реformation of this ministry. With all my idiosyncrasy for this word

[Knell wardenheart]

Rarely do I hear something so reasonable here!

[your1970]

Quote: Ivan Seversky

who advocated the popularization of mass sports, and not the competition of professional athletes, was the latter who was banned from the Olympic Games.
Professional jumpers, shot throwers, sledders can find sponsors or go to the national economy, they say that there are just not enough workers there.

Are you talking about CSKA/Lokomotiv/Dynamo and other AMATEUR type teams? Where during the day he is a turner/operator/platoon leader, and in the evening he is like an athlete?

[Ivan Seversky]

Are you talking about CSKA/Lokomotiv/Dynamo and other AMATEUR type teams? Where during the day he is a turner/operator/platoon leader, and in the evening he is like an athlete?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Soviet teams were self-sustaining/profitable for a departmental organization, given that the athletes of the leading football clubs were paid at the level of workers “in the north,” and the matches attracted full stadiums. Now, of course, everything has changed.
Few people know that foreign athletes then received comparable (and sometimes lower) salaries. In England, until 1961, there was an agreement on a maximum salary, which was limited to 20 & per week (the average salary of a man is 14 &); outside the season, football players could work part-time, for example, in a car dealership. In 1961, the players achieved the abolition of this agreement and salaries began to gradually increase by 1991. Salaries in the English League rose to 6 average salaries in the country, the following year the Premier League was created, restrictions on transfers were lifted, then the oil sheikhs came and salaries shot into space. Now the difference between the salary of a football player from the middle of the Premier League list and an ordinary Englishman is 57 times; in our country, Premier League football players receive 55 times more.

Professional sports are something between show business and gladiator fights of antiquity. Beautiful, dynamic, technical, after modern matches the games of 40 years ago do not look at all (on the screen, I think that the fans in the stadiums then had no less fun), but let all this not be paid for by taxpayers.

[Alexey Lantukh]

When football players whose monthly salaries are estimated at hundreds of millions of rubles are running around the field of a football stadium, and spectators who have spent tens of millions of rubles on football in a month are sitting in the stands, you inevitably ask the question: do we need this kind of football? This is entertainment at the expense of taxpayers and sponsors, who often sponsor under pressure, but could build and create something useful.

[your1970]

Quote: Ivan Seversky

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Soviet teams were self-sustaining/profitable for a departmental organization, given that the athletes of the leading football clubs were paid at the level of workers “in the north”, and the matches were collected full stadiums.

The ticket cost a maximum of 1 ruble - the stadium was 10.
Only a salary of 300 rubles is 36 rubles per year only for salary.
That is, 4 games only to win back the salary.
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The costs of trainers, doctors, bases, etc. are high..
So no matter what self-sufficiency there's not even a conversation.
Clean image...

[AdAstra]

To be honest, I still didn’t understand the essence of all this, and it wasn’t entirely interesting to watch, like, for example, purely separate competitions in the same Dota or counter. And now pushing a game like “World of Tanks” into eSports, where it is officially stated that +-25 percent is included in the game parameters to equalize the average result of the players, that’s a joke.

[Knell wardenheart]

And there’s not much to play with doping here, except maybe knock over a can of energy drink inside

The author apparently has not heard about various biohacking things like anti-epileptic wheels or drugs prescribed for stroke. “Rocking chairs” for the brain (with varying degrees of severity of side effects) are already quite enough and they can provide quite tangible benefits if you completely neglect the doping control. There are also similar toys for spinal reactions, by the way.

Total prize fund is $10 million

It’s like we’re fighting, it’s like volunteers are raising money for soldiers, and here...

May sports fans and pink patriots forgive me, but I have a very skeptical attitude towards these Games. I don’t think that we have enough drive to make them regular, we generally throw away good ideas only after chewing them a little and not even bringing them close to epic and impressive proportions, then some Americans pick them up and make a franchise out of them with huge profitability.
The “idea” itself is great. The problem is in implementation and timeliness - “collective farmers” will not be too interested in watching some non-professionals cut across a real football field or run around in “laser tag”.
They will be even less interested in watching someone play doteika or a dance simulator. What?! Dance simulator?! WTF... I really can’t imagine how it can catch on in our country that substrate that every evening looks forward to “DNA Test” or “Trace” or watches “Soloviev”. Well, or those people for whom as many as 2 sports channels come out of their pants. That is, I'm very good. I am skeptical about the interest of the masses in this. We haven’t really popularized esports on TV, and that’s putting it mildly. Now this leap right off the bat will not make a difference - the average person will be hooked on the show for a short time, but he will stupidly have nothing to cling to and he will “skip”.

I also have skepticism about the approach - as I already noted, few will be interested in watching how gamers play real football. This hybrid approach to the spectacle doesn't seem like a good idea to me - it would waste time on something worthless. It’s strange to me that this time and disciplines are not represented by such popular areas of eSports in our country as strategy - the free space between cuts can be filled step by step like HoMM3, which is experiencing a real modal and disciplinary renaissance. I don’t understand why there isn’t StarCraft 2, flight simulators, or some more “juicy” action games than the tortured “Contra”. If there is an interest in creating a Spectacle, then all this must be taken into account, but if there is an interest in creating something like that with a wider scope, clinging to trends, so to speak, then this approach will fail.

I think that we will abandon this matter without even really developing it. We started off well, but on the wrong foot. IMHO.

[Churchill]

If you want to fail an event covering an event, ask E. Fedorov to write a note.

[warstation]

As a Laser Tag fan, I really liked Laser Tag and robot battles!!! There are already enough standard sports for everyone, competitions at school and in the city, and so on, and when you see or take part in a robot battle or a drone race.... why not? very cool, new and interesting, we were turned around here and there, we have to go in all directions. In fact, how many of you have watched drone racing on TV or laser tag.... no one... then this is something new and interesting. Of course, who likes to watch 40 km ski races with a commentator and 3 km laps will not prove anything.

[Glagol1]

I completely agree with the author. The games were a success and this is really something new. It’s important not to let Western officials get into them, they’ll spoil things. Bach - once again showed his insides - with a black soul.

[Kostadinov]

Everything that pisses off and infuriates the IOC and WADA today is good and useful for the future of sports as a whole.

[Vladimir80]

Everything that pisses off and pisses off the IOC and WADA today is good and useful for the future of sports as a whole.

a ridiculous statement, because it’s all WORDS (someone said it, someone didn’t like it and other idle talk)... the reality is that just as we paid “tribute” to international organizations (= Western supervisors), we continue to pay.. .

[VLR]

To be honest, no one in Russia really cares about these games - the vast majority of people demonstrate complete indifference. No one follows these strange competitions, no one is interested in them, no one has any idea about the rules, no one knows the winners. Moreover, judging by the conversations, many people are annoyed by these games; they are assessed as another waste of budget funds that could be spent on the development of real children's and youth sports.

[Mordvin 3]

Quote: VlR

No one follows these strange competitions, no one is interested in them, no one has any idea about the rules, no one knows the winners. Moreover, judging by the conversations, many people find these games annoying

On NTV they show something in connection with these games for 10 minutes, for me it’s like an advertisement for another useless thing.

[Jacques sekavar]

“Games of the Future” is a mixture of a bulldog and a rhinoceros, a new political economic enterprise as opposed to the Olympic Competition.
Such a large-scale undertaking requires huge material and financial costs for holding the event, which not all government agencies can afford, and the event participants cannot do without the financial and material support of sponsors.
Therefore, if the project receives international recognition, then over time, just like any international competition, it will inevitably be commercialized and politicized, and as a result we will come to what we tried to avoid - the politicization and commercialization of the project.

[Maks1995]

I don’t know, I haven’t heard.
And no one from the surroundings said a word.
Only one woman on the bus quietly took revenge on her neighbor - they say they teach you to kill.

I know that there is only one athlete’s name in the article. And a lot of officials.
everything for them?

By the way, what do you hear about past PR - like goodwill games? What were they called there?

[Corvair]

At first, many did not want to perceive e-sports as a sport, they say, sport = physical activity. But then the question arose: what to do with checkers and chess?

where is the healthy lifestyle promoted by the Olympic Games

Professional sports and health are two different things; in sports, health is just a consumable resource. And in general, there is no need to confuse physical education and sports.

[S.Z.]

They are not allowed to go to the Olympics, there was an order - to make your own, even cooler. They gave us the money, so they did what they did, as long as it wasn’t like others, since it’s clear that we can’t match the level of the Olympics.

I constantly hear advertising, I don’t watch the competition myself and I don’t know anyone who watches. And there’s nothing to see there - it’s more interesting to play the games yourself, and the sports there are not of a high level. Our athletes, who can, will go to the Olympics under foreign flags. This is what they will watch.

International holiday of officials and companies that received orders.

[Vladimir80]

Our athletes, who can, will go to the Olympics under foreign flags. This is what they will watch.

I wonder what the “average portrait” of someone watching the Olympics is?