why does every asian booth babe have bunny ears, regardless of whether or not they are relevant?

Because it's cute.

I look forward to the day when I can watch PC game events as an Olympic competition.
How cool would it be to see team South Korea v. team U.S.A. (for example) 'pwning' at Guild Wars?
In my opinion it will happen - but first interactive entertainment (I liked that from the post about a new word other then 'game') must go mainstream. I see no reason why this sort of competition should not be a valid Olympic 'sport' (in heavily inverted commas). After all, curling is a sport...

The biggest question is if this would feature in the winter or summer olympics. Any ideas?

Bunny ears? Uhh...it's psychological. Hint: Playboy's logo.

V. true ;)

I watched this fight when I was playing Guild Wars. Was kind of hoping War Machine would win.

and with the $50,000 they ran off with the boothbabe.

"The biggest question is if this would feature in the winter or summer olympics. Any ideas?"

i would say summer, because the winter olypmics is for ice/snow sports.

but then that raises the following question:

what about games like SSX? would it be fair to divide those into the winter olympics?

Sorry but videogames as a sport will not get picked up as mainstream until the various leagues learn to stick to a single game... not many that change every couple of years.

The MLB doesn't announce next seasons is going to be played as Baseball 2.0. The NFL doesn't go and introduce NFL:The Sequel as next years "game". Profesional sports change very little overtime.

Video gaming profesionally needs a constant game. In the US the closest contender we have is Counterstrike. Even then the main star of the circuit is Fatal1ty who jumps to whatver Q3 game is hot.

Pro video gaming is actually a sad commercial interest for the games being played and the technology (gfx cards fo sho) the gamers compete on.

Starcraft is HUGE in Korea and is basically their national "past time". Starcraft is an old game and I doubt you will see the Koreans changing games anytime soon. Sure other games in Korea are competitive, but its basically like comparing the MLB to AAA baseball in the US. It's minor league vs major league.

And until the US video gaming tournaments get out of the commercial aspect of selling the newest and greatest hardware and software... then they won't succeed like they want.

"I won the Guild Wars World Championship and all I got was this stupid belt"

Nice Monkey Island™ reference.

The Last Pride beat Idiot Savants [iQ], an american guild, in round 2, good match though. there were two guilds from the US, the other one was Treacherous Empire [Te]. Last Pride rolled every guild they faced lol.