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Cybathlon - Championship for Cyborgs - 0 views

www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en

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shared by alexbelov on 04 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Experience a world première: On Saturday, 8 October 2016 ETH Zurich is organising the very first Cybathlon! Individuals with physical disabilities will compete side by side in six demanding disciplines, using the latest assistive technologies.
  • There are races for athletes with powered arm and leg prostheses, for those wearing a robotic exoskeleton and for powered wheelchairs. There’s also a race for cyclists using electrical muscle stimulation and even a brain-computer interface race.
  • Cybathlon provides a platform for the development of novel assistive technologies that are useful for daily life. Through the organisation of the Cybathlon we want to remove barriers between people with disabilities, the public and technology developers.
  • alexbelov on 04 Apr 16
     
    The first world's olympic games for athletes with disabilities powered by cybernetic prothesis will take place this year in Zurich. It's expected that 80 teams from different countries will participate. The next Cybathlon is planned in Tokyo 2020 during the Summer Olympics.
Oleg Batluk

UBC students win $180,000 playing eSport League of Legends - 0 views

www.vancitybuzz.com/...egends-collegiate-championship

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shared by Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16 - No Cached
  • UBC become arguably the top eSports schools in North America
  • What started as a casual club fueled by passion for the game quickly became a top competitive team in North America. Now the team’s members are being rewarded for all their practice with about $30,000 each thanks to their NACC victory
  • “I would play anywhere from 4-8 hours a day, and that’s just individual. Every weekend [the team] would play around 12 hours, six on Saturday and six on Sunday. Essentially a full-time job, I would say in my first two to three years of university I probably played 30-40 hours a week
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  • The question asked now for these high-level eSports players is the same as any athlete: what’s next
  • With eSports, you practice as a team, you have to spend just as many hours as a professional athlete.
  • ou have to play on a big stage in front of a lot of people. It’s really stressful
  • Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16
     
    Cybersportsman has to spend siginificant time of his life to be successful with the same level of stress as profeccionals from physical sports have
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