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The Arlanda high school will now establish a line of education for young people who want to become professional e-sport players, or at least want to play games while in school.
[/B]Competitive console and PC gaming is no longer reserved for those who have already been inaugurated, but is now ranked as one of the world's most popular sports. The events, the number of spectators, and the potential prize money are quickly growing, where the various international tournaments gave out roughly 23000000 USD to winning players during 2014.
As a first in Sweden, the Arlanda high school has decided to establish a specially designed E-sport education. Since 2011, Swedish high schools have offered similar lines of education for other sports, such as soccer and swimming, and e-sports are now being considered equal to those.
In other words, a person who wants to become a professional E-sport player should get the same kind of possibilites as someone who wants to become, for example, an elite-swimmer.
"Our educational system needs to get better at adapting to the times we're in, and this is a good step in the right direction" - Ibrahim Khalifa, Chairman of the Education and Employment Board.
The goal is to create an education balanced between physical and mental fitness. The education will in other words not be about playing games in particular, but is there to lay a stable foundation to make it possible to become successful in the sport.
In the press release, the school says that research has shown that people who play games frequently develop their cognitive abilities, improves their memory, and makes them better at solving logical puzzles.
To become a good e-sport player you need to be physically fit, as well, though, in order to endure long periods of high concentration and stress.
The education will consist of four 115 minute lessons each week.
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Source: [url]http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/19975-svenskt-gymnasium-startar-e-sportutbildning[/url]
Sweden just seems so far ahead compared to other countries. But good on them.
This just feels like a big joke.
better than a high school golf team
If it motivates kids to put their time and effort into SOMETHING. Then I think it's well worth it.
How long until there will be Dota teams of every high school and college?
Just imagine the new teenage comedy movies. The protagonist is a new guy in class. He is an athlete and he is bullied by the local mlg cybersport dudes. No chicks want to hang out with him. The one he likes is the gf of the school's dota team's captain.
esports is huge in sweden
like [URL="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mcdonalds-in-sweden-to-serve-esports-themed-burger/1100-6415739/"]mcdonalds names burgers after players/teams during dreamhack[/URL] huge
no suprise
One step closer to VGHS :v:
When you fail an exam, instead of a F you get a REKT.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;47028863]How long until there will be Dota teams of every high school and college?
Just imagine the new teenage comedy movies. The protagonist is a new guy in class. He is an athlete and he is bullied by the local mlg cybersport dudes. No chicks want to hang out with him. The one he likes is the gf of the school's dota team's captain.[/QUOTE]
28 Jump Street, they go to high school in Sweden and the scrawny Dota team are the popular kids they have to infiltrate
[QUOTE=Wii60;47028886]esports is huge in sweden
like [URL="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mcdonalds-in-sweden-to-serve-esports-themed-burger/1100-6415739/"]mcdonalds names burgers after players/teams during dreamhack[/URL] huge
no suprise[/QUOTE]
The burger wasn't exactly because named after an esports team because there were interested in esports, it was voted for a create a burger contest, was linked on fragbite and other c CS sites and was voted to the top.
This would be pretty cool to see become mainstream
I'm not into e-sports, but if you can get people to watch it, get people to sponsor it, and make money off of it, I don't see what's the difference between that and conventional sports.
Actually sounds like a good idea.
With platforms like Twitch and YouTube and social media in general, teenagers can suddenly find themselves very suddenly in a position of responsibility with a lot of career potential hanging in the balance - but they rarely have access to a proper mentor because the scene is so young and veteran coaches/captains aren't a given. It's probably really easy to feel lost in that situation or mess up in a way the Internet (and any potential sponsors) most certainly won't forget.
For example, suddenly overnight the joking insults you're regularly exchanging with your friends on twitter become tomorrow's sensationalist headlines and there's no good way of stopping that unless you give up all your current social media access and go undercover by an alt or stick to private messaging. That's [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w"]basically what happened to Phil Fish[/url].
I don't see New Media going away any time soon or it stopping to appeal to a young audience, so projects like these are very smart and forward-thinking imo.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;47028863]How long until there will be Dota teams of every high school and college?
Just imagine the new teenage comedy movies. The protagonist is a new guy in class. He is an athlete and he is bullied by the local mlg cybersport dudes. No chicks want to hang out with him. The one he likes is the gf of the school's dota team's captain.[/QUOTE]
This is almost exactly what you're talking about except the main guy also plays games:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JqR3GVqib4[/media]
[editline]28th January 2015[/editline]
And somehow there's 3 seasons of this (at 6 episodes at like 10-15 minutes each)
To be honest, consider me a nag, but I don't want teenagers to do "esports", I don't want esports stars to get so much money that they in my solely subjective opinion don't deserve.
How about they make proper programming classes, electrical engineering workshops, 3D modelling and digital art classes, digital music classes? They say they want to adapt to the times they live in, I wonder why it nececarily means esports.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;47029150]To be honest, consider me a nag, but I don't want teenagers to do "esports", I don't want esports stars to get so much money that they in my solely subjective opinion don't deserve.
How about they make proper programming classes, electrical engineering workshops, 3D modelling and digital art classes, digital music classes? They say they want to adapt to the times they live in, I wonder why it nececarily means esports.[/QUOTE]
Because schools love obsessing over sport "education", at least now it's a bit more modern.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;47029150]To be honest, consider me a nag, but I don't want teenagers to do "esports", I don't want esports stars to get so much money that they in my solely subjective opinion don't deserve.
How about they make proper programming classes, electrical engineering workshops, 3D modelling and digital art classes, digital music classes? They say they want to adapt to the times they live in, I wonder why it nececarily means esports.[/QUOTE]
i honestly don't get it either
it feels like people are forcing esports to become a bigger thing, and they act like as if they're being progressive when reality they are just shoving it into places it shouldn't be
[QUOTE=LittleDogX;47029127]This is almost exactly what you're talking about except the main guy also plays games:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JqR3GVqib4[/media]
[editline]28th January 2015[/editline]
And somehow there's 3 seasons of this (at 6 episodes at like 10-15 minutes each)[/QUOTE]
Actually the first ep got me hooked the whole time, I am gonna watch this. Thanks.
as long as they're including the physical portion too and if it's not something that can replace an important course (math, pe, science, ect) then I guess that's fine
Just to be clear: the eSports part is just a complement to the regular study material. As it says in the article, there are niche programmes that allows you to focus on a particular sport while studying. But it's [I]not[/I] a programme just to become an eSports player.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;47029206]Actually the first ep got me hooked the whole time, I am gonna watch this. Thanks.[/QUOTE]
The first season is fine, but then it does that thing where "this was popular, lets make more!" and the following seasons aren't as good.
Wayyyy better than my High School's Frisbee team
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;47029150]To be honest, consider me a nag, but I don't want teenagers to do "esports", I don't want esports stars to get so much money that they in my solely subjective opinion don't deserve.
How about they make proper programming classes, electrical engineering workshops, 3D modelling and digital art classes, digital music classes? They say they want to adapt to the times they live in, I wonder why it nececarily means esports.[/QUOTE]
eh, i feel the same way about normal sports. i wish star athletes didn't make the shitloads of money that they do.
in the same way regular sports might kids interested in fitness, esports might get kids interested in making games.
Hey if PewDiePie can play video games for money, surely all Swedish people can :v:
Why are they all wearing two sets of headphones at once?
Feels like an excuse since only 0.1% (likely less) will be actually good enough to potentially become a professional, competitive Esports player.
Might be biased tho, as I've come across several people who've jumped university/college implying that they are gonna focus on their "gaming career" whilst having an uncharismatic personality, lacking game knowledge, while also being generally bad/average at games. Only to see their parents supporting them as they pretty much do nothing.
I enjoy watching esports and certain youtubers myself, but throwing away your education/job whatever for it is just plain stupid. Adding onto the fact that most of the people who have gotten somewhere didn't just drop their life until they could actually support themselves on what they were doing.
[QUOTE=Joanna;47029861]Feels like an excuse since [b]only 0.1% (likely less) will be actually good enough to potentially become a professional, competitive Esports player.[/b]
Might be biased tho, as I've come across several people who've jumped university/college implying that they are gonna focus on their "gaming career" whilst having an uncharismatic personality, lacking game knowledge, while also being generally bad/average at games. Only to see their parents supporting them as they pretty much do nothing.
I enjoy watching esports and certain youtubers myself, but throwing away your education/job whatever for it is just plain stupid. Adding onto the fact that most of the people who have gotten somewhere didn't just drop their life until they could actually support themselves on what they were doing.[/QUOTE]
That's about the same as every other highschool sport and they still sink more time money and effort into those than two or three other subjects combined in schools over here.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;47029150]How about they make proper programming classes, electrical engineering workshops, 3D modelling and digital art classes, digital music classes? They say they want to adapt to the times they live in, I wonder why it nececarily means esports.[/QUOTE]
They already do. I went to that
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;47029917]That's about the same as every other highschool sport and they still sink more time money and effort into those than two or three other subjects combined in schools over here.[/QUOTE]
I never enjoyed sports class much in general, but once high school was over I did kinda start to miss it and saw the importance of keeping people physically active. Not sure how it is there in the US, but looking back now, the general sports class you had once or twice a week in between everything else in school did help a lot to keep people active. And in high school our sports class included a lot of useful information regarding the body.
[editline]29th January 2015[/editline]
But then again, you guys have like competitive sports classes you could take or something?
Over here it was more about staying healthy than competitive sports.
I don't think there is anything school related in Sweden which focuses on competitive sports, people do that off school and such, joining football teams etc.
I knew there was options to put further focus and choose a few sport related classes, but they were also more related towards people who wanted to for example, to become an gymnastics instructor, gym trainer, sports teacher in school etc.
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