The Olympiad program was offered to include video games

Video games competition must be included in the Olympiad program. This, according to Interfax , said in an interview with BBC the creator of the game Warcraft Rob Pardo.

"Video games have reached the level to become sports. You can create anything with graphics, making them really exciting and competitive sports," the creator of the popular game is sure.

According to Pardo, the participants of the cyber -country have special skills, in particular, the ability to instantly respond and make important decisions.

At the same time, the creator of Warcraft admits that it will be difficult for such competitions to get the status of the Olympic sport. The reason, as he explained, is the interpretation of the concept of "sport" as part of the Olympics program.

“If you want to define sport as physical activity, then it will be difficult to prove that video games should be considered sports. At the same time, when I look at what is happening at the Olympic Games, I begin to doubt such an interpretation,” said Pardo.

According to BBC, cybersturnists today collect thousands of audiences around the world. So, during the last online championary in South Korea, about 40 thousand spectators were in the stands. Since 2013, the Leagends e -sports discipline has been considered an official sport in the United States.