X-Games Goes Full Retard And Adds Video Gaming To Roster Of Action Sports Biggest Event

In what may be lamest move yet in X-Games history – a history full of epicly lame moves – it seems now that there will be a video game competition at this summer's event. Lame or what?!

via ESPN

To capitalize on a rapidly growing competitive league right in the heart of its demographic, X Games, together with Major League Gaming, announced Monday that there will be a "Call of Duty" tournament as part of X Games Austin in June.

The "MLG Call of Duty: Ghosts" tournament will feature the top five "Call of Duty" teams based on MLG Pro Points plus the top three teams from the "Call of Duty" championship held in Winter Park, Fla., last month. The eight teams will compete in a double-elimination group format, with four teams advancing to a single-elimination bracket. X Games medals will be awarded to the winning teams.

"It's going to be [MLG] bringing our high-level production into a really full weekend," MLG CEO Sundance DiGiovanni said. "We're looking to build something here that hopefully becomes a tradition at both the summer and the winter X Games over time."

As Whitelines reports, "Yup, we didn’t believe it at first either – the world’s biggest stage from action sports will now feature a contest for teams of sweaty nerds to play digital thumb wars with each other.

Whether or not you think ‘major league gaming’ is legitimate as a sport is one thing, putting it on the same level as the top competitors in snowboard, motocross, BMX and skateboarding is another thing completely. We’re still not quite sure how the organisers are justifying it, after all, we thought the snowmobile long jump was pretty terrible…

So is that it for any shred of legitimacy the X Games still had?"

The annoying part is that the X-Games is what most of America thinks of when they think of snowboarding, skateboarding, etc… and now they will legitimately think that playing video games is considered to be on the same level of "sport" as those activities. What's even worse is that, in the states at least, this may actually be true – or at least representative of what "the kids" think these days. Uggh