YCG

This post is purely fictitious and written for the purpose of entertainment and humour although some details in it are undeniably cold facts which the doers just don't wanna admit. Never mind, just sit back and enjoy

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Prior to the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) which recently took place in a cosmopolitan city off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, something similar to this event will happen soon

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) who organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games (and is less mercenary than FIFA) came up with a new version of the Olympics exclusively for people aged 14-18 years old

Coming soon, look out for the Youth Cyber Games (YCG)!!!

The World Cyber Games Inc which organizes the World Cyber Games is set to have a brand new version of the annual gaming festival specially for youths

All you have to do is to prove that you are below 18 to be eligible. Smoking, consumption of alcohol, gambling and all other activities under-18 minors are prohibited to do will be banned during the event

All athletes erm, I mean gamers must have at least played one of the following games to be able to qualify for the tournament

They include (try saying them all out at one time) CounterStrike; Warcraft; MapleStory; Street Fighter; Pokemon on Gameboy; Super Mario; Pet Society, Mafia Wars or any lame farming game on Facebook; FIFA/Winning Eleven/Championship Manager; Need for Speed; Red Alert; The Sims; Final Fantasy; Halo; Pac-Man; any Viwawa game; Tetris and last but not least, Snake on your Nokia phone

In the event that a potential participant has never played or heard of any of the above games (which is highly unlikely), he or she can still appeal to join the YCG. He or she just needs to complete 150 hours of gaming within one week to qualify

That is equivalent to only 2.57 hours of rest time daily. Shouldn't be too taxing since youths these days can withstand long hours of non-stop gaming. Electricity, equipment and food will be provided by the committee. Anyone who fails to complete 150 hours will have to pay everything by themselves

There will be a total of 4 categories. Video game console, handheld gaming console, PC and mobile phone games

The specific list of games that will be competed at the YCG has yet to be finalized due to copyright issues. It is rumoured that Warcraft does not want to participate (which will disappoint many gamers) unless World Cyber Games Inc withdraw Starcraft's involvement

This is due to the fact that both games sound similar and a certain cheese brand called Kraft is one of the main sponsors. Although both games are from the same company, Warcraft developers still think that there is a need to draw a line between both of them

Another controversy involves a group of developers of different Gameboy games protesting against Pokemon. They believe that the Pokemon game on Gameboy is time-consuming hence, affecting the schedule of other games

Game Freak and Nintendo have yet to respond to the protests but are believed to issue a statement in a couple of days' time to claim that only fat people play games at a slower rate

Bidding for hosting rights will occur next month and boy, lots of countries are up for the challenge although they have limited funds. This is partly due to Singapore the YOG hosts which exceeded its budget by three times but nobody seems to be at fault so it's ok to overspent after all

Candidates who have confirmed their bids include Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Belize, Falkland Islands, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh. Vatican City is said to be joining in the fun as well

No matter where the event is eventually held or which games will be featured in the tournament, there is one thing to be sure of. It is a kiddy's thing for overaged kids who are below 18. Maybe only kids will be interested in it