Commonwealth Esports Championships running alongside this year's Commonwealth Games

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"When will esports be part of the Olympics?" is a question often asked by people desperate for approval from cultural authorities or from their parents. But some sporting events are in turn eager to piggyback the youth appeal of esports, which is why the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be accompanied by a pilot esports competition. The organisers today announced the Commonwealth Esports Championships, running in August alongside the main event. And maybe it'll lead to more esports?

The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial multi-sport international competition—a bit like the Olympics, but about fragments of the former British Empire. This year's event is in Birmingham, England. And running alongside it, allied but quite separate, will be a Commonwealth Esports Championships. Organised with the Global Esports Federation and British Esports Association with support from a tourism fund, it'll see ethletes from across the Commonwealth duking it across a variety of genres in yet-unconfirmed games.

"Commonwealth Esports Championships provides an excellent opportunity to pilot esports close to the Commonwealth Games," said Commonwealth Games Federation president Louise Martin in today's announcement.

"This will allow us to review the long-term relationship between the Commonwealth Games and esports as we continue to evolve and explore future editions of our event and what they could look like."

The Daily Mail, an English tabloid who broke the news early, say Valve's MOBA Dota 2 might be on the table. It's not clear where they're pulling that from. While the Daily Mail's output is 50% shite and 40% 'culture war' trolling hey, this might be part of the legit 10%.

Myself, I'm intrigued by the CGF saying that "the event is set to