Olympian 'cybersportsmen', coming to a MOBA near you.
The regional government of Novosibirsk recently announced it was opening the first state 'cybersports school' in Russia, via its official Telegram channel."Dozens of athletes" are already enrolled, and classes in DOTA 2 and League of Legends have begun for children over the age of 12.
The school is based out of Novosibirsk's Olympic Reserve Shooting School, and the standards for entry aren't necessarily what you expect. Potential entrants are screened according to their abilities in both videogames and physical sports.
which were published in January this year. Those standards also mandate that 'cybersports' training is divided into"general and specialised physical training" on the one hand and"technical, tactical, theoretical, and psychological" training on the other. In other words, it sounds incredibly intense, which is probably to be expected from a government school that usually specialises in turning out Olympic athletes.
In terms of equipment, the new school is obliged to provide an incredibly exacting list of gear to its students. Chairs and desks must be a certain height off the ground, monitors must be 144hz and have a response time of no more than 1 millisecond, and mice must be wired and have a DPI of 16000. Amusingly, the only detail which isn't hyper-specific is the GPU, which is only required to"work comfortably with 3D content".
It's all part of the Russian government's broader effort to cultivate a domestic base of tech talent and reduce its reliance on western technology and expertise. Games are a big part of that push. It was only last week we got news that Russian devs were looking at building a, and this is one more part of that bigger picture.
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