eSports becomes a joke!

You want to point out that it's already a joke or want to correct me to write become instead of becomes? ;)

duh

trackmania has a big community and is absolutely competitionable.
dignitas/bozar (i think thats his name) is one of the big tm players as far as i know =]

but the other things are a joke

Trackmania actually is a very cool game :)
and it's free

Agreed, gg

While I agree that the selection of games is something ranging from a bit silly to really strange via totally retarded, do you really think they require no skill?

Honestly, do you believe that a nub could pick up FEAR or Guitar Hero and play it as well as someone who pracced 6 hours a day and was naturally talented (skilled) at it? Just because it's maybe looking for a different type of skill doesn't mean it isn't looking for it.

Logically, from the point of view of the game developers and sponsors, they want to see games that the viewing public (the spectators, who spend money on the sponsors' products and thus finance these events) can more easily relate to. Hence why the WSVG game list seems to make perfect sense to me, even if I don't like it.

The CPL list, however, gives the impression that (once again) the game publishers are pushing games that nobody really wants to play in competition at all for the sake of game sales rather than sponsors' merchandise - they're not even massively popular, afaik.This isn't the way things should be done, imo. It's self destructive in the long term as it doesn't allow a proper coherant spectator base for a given game to develop and, thus, precludes the CPL from taking advantage of that base in future events.