介绍:
Heyang: For those who want to forge a close relationship with a Chinese person, or just want to find a popular Chinese past-time, the poker game ‘Doudizhu’, which literally means “battling the landlords”, maybe a way to go. And now ‘Doudizhu” learners may find themselves more motivated as the sports authorities has announced that, first of all: this is a sport, and it’s going to receive special funding, and top players will be recognized officially. So what is all these special attention that’s given to ‘Doudizhu”, a poker game?
Hongling: As you’ve mentioned, the poker game ‘Doudizhu” has been first to recognize as a sport early this year. Now there’s a national tournament of ‘Doudizhu’, which is basically for you who don’t know, it’s a popular strategic card game and poker game in China, and was officially launched on the September the 3rd. The price for the tournament total is five million Yuan, and in addition players will participate via online gaming platforms. We’ll receive master points granted by China’s general administration of sports. So basically it’s a sport, people are funding it, and you can play it online.
Ryan: My my my doudizhu face, my doudizhu face, my poker face, baby. Um, you know what, my deal with it is I don’t know if I would consider it sport, me and Hongling had an argue about it before the show, but one thing it is-- it’s very popular, and people their skill that comes in to playing it, I’m sure of it. And there’s money to be made, so why not have a ‘Doudizhu’ (you make it so exotic hahaha--Heyang) face of tournament where the best in the world compete. For big prize, why not?
Hongling: I gotta say Ryan said it’s not a sport, but he also believes that chess or go (Weiqi) is not a sport. It’s a strategic game. That is the background information I wanna give you guys.
Heyang: You got it from him. What about video games? Cause there are major tournaments of video game playing. Can you call it not a sport? When you are exercising your brain muscles, they don’t exist.
Ryan: Alright I mean like this is um where you get an English word, the relativity kind of matters. For me sport implies something physical is happening, whereas game just implies everything under it. I think this ‘Doudizhu’ game would just be called the card game in the west. Whereas when you say something it’s a sport, it’s most times—it is the thing that they have in common is they’re both competitive. You know like golf or even football, and this card game. But at the same time, completely different things are going on.
Hongling: I would totally agree with having this as a tournament, cause like one hundred million people are playing this game. So for me it’s like how real the thing gets depends on how many people are participating in that.
Ryan: I mean I see this sport thing because in one case, for football you have an athlete running across the football field with lots of skill, and in the other you have a guy sitting in a bathroom, smoking a cigarette, playing this game on his phone, are they both athletes? Is it a sport? I don’t know, you decide, but obviously it is very popular, and like I said require skills. So why not?
Heyang: So why not?
Ryan: So why not?
Heyang: But also I’d like to bring in a slightly controversial side of ‘doudizhu’, that is often you know with any poker game, it could be involved with gambling, and gambling is illegal in our country, so now with this national sport be in roll getting involved promoting this poker game. It’s very interesting I’d like to see what the national policy is about on this one.
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