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Germany bans LAN but accepts shooting contest
German state Baden-Württemberg bans one of the most famous German LAN events, the Convention-X-Treme. This event is not allowed to to be held in this state due to playing "Killergames" such as Counter-Strike and Warcraft III.
By Dominic 'immo' Koller
Jul 3, 2009 13:52
German state Baden-Württemberg bans one of the most famous German LAN events, the Convention-X-Treme. This event is not allowed to to be held in this state due to playing "Killergames" such as Counter-Strike and Warcraft III.The event should've been held in late August with more than 400 gamers attending but yet again an event will be stopped due to the school shootings and it's after-effects in Germany. The politicians of Baden-Württembergs town Karlsdorf-Neuthard will not allow the event to play so called killer games such as "Warcraft III" and Counter-Strike which leads to the cancellation of the whole event.
The event organisers have announced they are currently looking for another location where they can hold their events in the future and they will also transfer back all the money people have paid for signing up. In stark comparison it is reported that from August 8th to 9th the same town will hold their shooting contests at the local gun club for kids below the age of 14.
Earlier this year the Friday Night Games of the ESL Pro Series in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Nuremberg were also banned for quite the same reason. It looks like there are still hurdles to overcome between the German politicians and competitive gaming.
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The event organisers have announced they are currently looking for another location where they can hold their events in the future and they will also transfer back all the money people have paid for signing up. In stark comparison it is reported that from August 8th to 9th the same town will hold their shooting contests at the local gun club for kids below the age of 14.
Earlier this year the Friday Night Games of the ESL Pro Series in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Nuremberg were also banned for quite the same reason. It looks like there are still hurdles to overcome between the German politicians and competitive gaming.
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Convention-X-Treme
EA Lanteam
Readmore.de
Fragster
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I personally don't think that they will approve any law against violent games. First of all it takes like 3-6 months to get a law passed. So the elections will have come to and end and nobody will give a damn shit about the citizens in the next 3 years (last year of the 4 year term is reserved for the 'new elective programm').
Second thing is, most of the games and movies are already out on a pretty censored base with half of the scenes cut out... even the blacklist of forbidden games is pretty big.
Conclusion: a lot of talk without action.
Lets be honest. Politicians are, in most cases, smart and educated human beings. They are by far not as stupid as you want them to be. They actually know it's not CS (even though one of the spree killers did play the game) or Heavy Metal (even though.. ... ..did wear a Slayer shirt) causing shootings.
With elections just around the corner politicians take the easy way out. "Look, if it happens again it's not our fault. We eventually did something!" and that makes me sick.
Not talking about the organizers of this LAN who are probably ruined now (at least did money-losing business). They advanced on loan to book the location and everything that's related. Good thing in times of a worldwide financial crisis.
:DDDDDDDD
It's about these fucking worthless people, who get paid for doing nothing (goverment), that have to "slove" any problem. If not, they're not going to be "choosen" again. They also have to consider strong lobbys.
I hope esl or other german orgainsation's PR dude will go to any 24h information tv and represent esports' society.
Today Germany, tomorrow whole Europe
screw these narrow-minded assholes
How about you get a clue? Don't type bullshit please.
Back home in SA we already dont have kode5, eswc or WCG qualifiers, if europe starts banning e-sports, I might aswell start playing chess or football. This is really not cool :(
I hope the other states don't boycott it aswell, that would be sad :/
I live in Baden-Württemberg , its f**ked up!
CS never die!!
fuck that
What kind of wine here Counter-Strike, and much less innocent Warcraft III !
Why not banned the sale and display of horror movies on TV ? Why collect the necessary documents, the weapons could buy every other citizen ? Why sell the books on the same topic ?
Politicians are not doing the right thing, they are looking for easy ways !