High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers 87
An anonymous reader points to this "This is an interesting interview with the creators of the High School Star League, an organization dedicated to furthering eSports as a viable hobby and even a career for children and young adults. The HSL has been active in the U.S. for a while but is now making a headway into Europe, where it's finding Counter-Strike is proving much more popular than RTS and MOBA games. There are a significant number of girls getting involved as well — as many as seven percent of competitors. It's a start, right?"
Kids need school to introduce them to hobbies? (Score:2, Interesting)
Teach them how to have fun? Or is this an effort to kill computer games by associating them with school?
Ah, Just What Schools Were Missing! (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, fantastic - yet another "sport" to distract the future generations of our planet from receiving an actual education.
Maybe it's time we consider creating separate "athletic schools" for the kids who want to be sports-stars, so the rest of the population can focus on, you know, learning important shit.