US Govt. Recognises League of Legends Players as Pro Athletes

[Rhys Gardiner]

http://au.gamespot.com/news/us-gove...ue-of-legends-players-as-pro-athletes-6411377

Interesting development in the E-sport community. The question I'm asking is, why isn't sim racing, which requires more physical effort than any other type of gaming, getting this kind of treatment too?

EDIT: may have posted this in the wrong forum.
EDIT 2: And hot damn, this is my 5,000th post on RD! Woop woop

 

[Jax Humanhater]

Congrats on your 5,000th post.

So, we're heading in the same direction as South Korea.

Very soon, we'll have League of Legends tournaments.

 

[JAbbotboss]

Ahah, this is really very cool news, but the strange thing is that this happened only now. In fact, it seems to me that the US government should have passed this law a couple of years ago, because many people already consider the League of Legends as an e-sports discipline. My brother has been playing tournaments for a long time and earns money from it. I used to think it was easy, but I was wrong. Here you need professional equipment, a high skill game and a professional league of legends elo boost account. Without these details, you cannot even find a good team. So this is a really difficult way !!!