It occurred to me that I don’t know any FOSS e-sport games off the top of my head and I don’t know why. I looked it up and it doesn’t seem like there are many tournaments around and I got to thinking about what would make a good FOSS e-sport and I don’t know that I have a really clear idea of it. It’s been on my mind a lot though so I wanted to see what you all think about it.
What FOSS e-sports do you like? What do you wish existed that doesn’t? Do you think there should be FOSS e-sports? Do you think they’ll never work, never be sustainable, or not be good? Does the concept of monetized tournaments go against the very ethos of free software?
Chess. one of the biggest servers, lichess.org is open source. They have hosted and broadcasted tournaments before.
Oh yeah, for some reason I don’t think of chess as an e-sport but of course it is. That’s a good one.