Holy Crap! These morons wanna' turn video gaming into some kind of professional sports league...

And that's just one of the instances that says we NEED more stuff when there's not much sports going on other than baseball.

Apparently, with the scarcity of sports these days, (it's currently the offseason of the NFL and the NBA...) there are some people who eventually want to turn video gaming into a full-pledged professional sports league like NFL football. And they're actually serious about it. He he...

DirecTV, with the successful transition of poker to the media phenomenon it is today, believes that video gaming has the potential to experience the same media attention that poker has a few years back.

With that said, DirecTV launched its first professional video game league dubbed the Championship Gaming Series. And to make matters more interesting, it has a full season of international competitions just like poker has these days with the 2007 World Series of Poker.

''Poker tournaments had been on TV for decades but only became a huge television property a few years ago when they added the lipstick camera and commentators to talk viewers through the likely scenarios and tendencies of the players,'' said Andy Reif, Commissioner for Championship Gaming Series and former COO of the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour.

''We have made the same type of innovations here. What is exciting for us is that DirecTV has figured out how to make pro gaming entertaining for viewers, gamers and non-gamers, and we expect that pro gaming will experience at least the level of success attained by poker after its TV production innovations were discovered.''

Mind you, the Championship Gaming Series, dubbed the CGS, has teams, uniforms, team websites and basically every other attribute a professional sports team has.

''The CGS concept is unique to the industry because it involves league and team play with an on-going series of competitions as opposed to the scattered gaming events that are currently available today,'' said Reif.

''Professional gamers'' will compete on PC and Xbox 360 games like Tecmo's Dead or Alive 4, Microsoft's Project Gotham Racing 3, Electronic Arts' FIFA 07 (I kick ass with my Manchester United team...) and Valve's Counter-Strike.

Each CGS team will feature 10 players who are specialists in the official league games. Five of the players will be an integrated Counter-Strike unit and play against other teams' Counter-Strike squads five-on-five. The soccer title FIFA 07 will be played one-on-one. Each team will have a mixed-double team of two DOA4 players, one man and one woman, playing against other teams in one-on-one matches on Xbox 360. The racing game PGR3 will be represented by one player on each team.

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