Thousands of gamers signed a petition to turn the card game Yu-Gi-Oh! become an Olympic sport

In the past few years, Esports growing strongly with outstanding growth, gradually stepping into big sports festivals such as Asian Games or SEA Games. So many gamers want electronic Sports have the opportunity to appear in the Olympics, although this seems unlikely at the moment.​

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The Tokyo Olympics are taking place extremely excitingly with the participation of 206 sports delegations and thousands of athletes. On this occasion, a Youtuber named Xiran Jay Zhao had the idea to write a petition to Esports, or more specifically, card game Yu-Gi-Oh! become an Olympic sport. Although the final result is unknown, her idea has attracted a large response from fans of Yu-Gi-Oh! In the world.

Currently, Xiran Jay Zhao’s petition has nearly 11,000 supporters and is one of the most signed petitions on Change.org. In the petition’s description, Xiran Jay Zhao states that the card game Yu-Gi-Oh! perfectly suited to be an Olympic sport because it requires both dexterity, physical strength and endurance: dexterity in drawing cards, physical strength to play cards and endurance to compete for long periods of time. .​

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The female Youtuber’s argument is not completely convincing, but that can’t stop the enthusiasm of the fans. However, if a card game is really accepted to be in the Olympics, why is it Yu-Gi-Oh! but not Magic The Gathering or Pokemon? This will probably be the next conundrum that Yu-Gi-Oh! have to slove.
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