When will DDR become an Olympic sport?

LazyAsian · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject:

in order for a sport to be in the olympics, 70 some countries have to play it as well and and sure its popular here in the US but thats just ONE country
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Slowpoke · Trick Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003

Where'd you get THAT number from? How many countries play team handball and water polo?

linz1234567 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject:

handball is actually played in a lot of countries. Soccer teams played it to keep in shape during the off season before there were a ton of indoor fields.

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DDR is not a sport, it's a game. Get over it.

Emporer Z · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:33 am Post subject:

If DDR ever, and I mean ever became an Olympic sport, it would not be very fascinating to DDR insiders, because we already know that the U.S. and Japan would dominate. Each country has the following traits that set it apart from the field:

1) The U.S. and Japan both have legendary players that can AAA almost anything, on any mods. We know who they are.
2) Both countries have had DDR as a huge and popular venue.
3) The end result would be a gold medal match between the U.S. and Japan. All other countries would be annihilated by the quarter finals.

Final note: and any U.S. player who hopes to stand a chance had better be on his top game at all times, because Japan will automatically send in the Ueki brothers (Yasu &Take) along with a few other arrow bashing lunatics.
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Den · Trick Member Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Location: Columbus, Ohio

LazyAsian is sort of right.

For a sport to become an Olympic sport, it has to be played in an organized fashion by men in 40 countries and women in 30 countries. Good luck starting an organized DDR league for women in one country, let alone 30.

And regarding golf: I played Saturday and sweated my butt off. My arms and shoulders still ache from swinging and my legs still hurt from walking the hilly course. Anyone who says golf isn't a sport has never played it.

Tater Salad · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:29 am Post subject:

bloodeu · Basic Member Joined: 19 Nov 2003

DDR isn't a sport, folks. If it's every considered a sport in our society, something has gone terribly wrong. The next person to say DDR is a sport deserves to be thrown in flames with gasoline squirted at them slowly. DDR can't be a sport, for a number of reasons.

1.) DDR's game play isn't dynamic. For example, when you look at the game of football, you must implement plans for a successful touchdown. The plans themselves are very dynamic(always changing, this is why the board game "scrabble" is considered a sport(and indeed it should be!)). DDR isn't dynamic, it's very linear and "statically" played.

2.) You can only get so good at DDR. WTF would happen if a person could AAA every song? No more competition, so no more DDR.

3.) DDR's a video game. A video simply doesn't ever deserve to be a sport, period.
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Illusion Bomb · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:19 am Post subject:

Rancidfish · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject:

I could imagine DDR being played on an Olympic Level, but only as freestyle, and most likely as Oni Course Doubles Freestyle, or something like that.

If it's just PA, then it's too static as mentioned above. If it's just freestyle, the requirements aren't strict enough... it's just dancing, but now you're standing on a small platform. If you can combine the two, however... then you're BEGINNING to get somewhere. Freestyle on an oni course, be judged based on your performance... but you're doing 5+ songs back to back, and if you fail, you're disqualified.

However, two huge obstacles stand in the way of DDR ever getting into the olympics.
1) It's a game, owned and copyrighted by a specific company. All the olympic sports can be played as long as you have proper equipment. You'll never see anyone making you pay licensing fees for 100m Freestyle Swimming. Similarly, they wouldn't want to support a specific company in that way, it's unfair.
2) Yeah, we'll hella get organized DDR groups in 40 different countries to petition the Olympic Commitee. Maybe even tomorrow.
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Emporer Z · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:43 am Post subject:

Yes, let me correct myself. I believe that Canada will do well also, because of the Bemaniac and some other guys I can't immediately recall.

Those Colombian guys? I'm not certain if I would worry about them, there are only like...2 of them. The U.S., Japan, and Canada have at least 10 players each that would dominate at any tournament, anywhere. You could just wear the Colombians down.
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justsomeguy · Basic Member Joined: 01 Feb 2004

I don't know if anyone's made this point yet, but...

"Dance Dance Revolution" is a video game series owned by Konami. Surely nothing with such a concrete brand affiliation could be recognized as a general sport by the Olympics.

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that would be so0o0o0o0o kool .we could go to the olympics and kick peoples butts in ddr and win gold medals in the process...... totaly sweet.
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