DDR Petition to Become a Sport

ddrpros · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject: DDR Petition to Become a Sport

Sign this petition to make DDR an official American sport! One day, this shall become reality and I will be soo happy, i just might die!!

It's really simple, sign here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/DDRSport/petition.html

Every vote counts!!
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Apoc · Trick Member Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Location: Toms River NJ

I love DDR with everything I've got. It's one of the best games ever made. I'm glad to be a part of what's keeping it alive today by playing it all the time, every day, at the arcade and at home, and by trying to get my friends to do the same.

But it's not a sport. Sorry.
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TPG é©å½ · Trick Member Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Location: spokane, WA

In Norway it is!

(well, actually 'Dancing Stage'. lolz)

EDIT: oh, it already says that on the petition.
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GotACoolName · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject:

It's a video game, not a sport. Holy crap.
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Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

DDR is not a sport.

Online petitions are the biggest joke on the Internet.

DDR can't be a sport for the same reason Yu-Gi-Oh can't be be a sport. The game in it's entirity belongs to Konami. There is a benefit to the dance gamer to get everybody play the exact same songlist with a limited number of step charts, but that effort is put forth soley by Konami. It's their effort and not ours so DDR can't be a sport.

Dancing gaming itself can be a sport though. Stepmania a free open source program allows any and all possibilities to put your very own custom set up to your exact liking.

But in order to promote this idea I create Stepmania gatherings. As long as the idea of a dance game being a sport is a reality I really don't care enough to make an online petition.

Have fun with DDR and don't care too much what other people think.

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

Damn, why kind of DDR Freaks are you guys?

If you go with the dictionary definition of "sport" you'll get this:

- An athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.

Does DDR fit the description? Easily. If you go down that linked page, there's some other things that may qualify:

- An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

Rules, like the one's we use for tournaments, DDR can most certainly be considered a sport, it's just not widely recognized publicly as one.
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darksteel53 · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:45 am Post subject:

I think DDR can already be considered a sport.... However, If your trying to say that we should have some proffesional DDR League or somthing, that cant happen, pretty much for the reasons that Daniel wrote.

Ironically tho, our Elementary Schools in our District are gonna buy DDR Machines for the PE Classes....
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Odyssey · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject:

DDR in the ways most of us know it sure could be a sport. However, so is Midget tossing, pole vaulting... you get the jist. Sports, just too obscure to be of notice. It's one thing to call it a sport (which DDR is, to some extent). It's another to try to elevate it to the status of, say, Football, Baseball, or even Bowling. I doubt that a game of this sort would be a notable sport for the Olympic committee to take much notice of.

Have fun, and if it becomes a sport, great. If not, then we lose nothing.
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I'm pretty sure a sport can't be owned by a company.
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Nicx · Trick Member Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Location: hawaii

there is no physical anything required.

i am 270 lbs or so.

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9 on unlimited
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arcade scores.

so yeah.

oh and its not a sport/

djmon · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject:

"OMG A FULL COMBO WHAT AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE! LET'S SEE WHAT THE JUDGES SCORE IT..."

lol, sure it's a sport, just go to Norway, and suck the life out of it being a sport

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shurf · Trick Member Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Location: NJ

Online petiotions never work.

I call it a rhythm game. That's it.

T-14 · Trick Member Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Ottawa, Canada

I signed it.
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MaskedFalcon · Trick Member Joined: 16 Oct 2005

Does the Olympic committee even determine what an "official American sport" is anyway? What IS an "official American sport?" Why would a petition do anything about whether DDR fits the definition of an "official American sport?"
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Flameboat · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject:

DDR is a sport in pretty much the same way that anything on ESPN2 at 4 in the morning is a sport. World Juggling Championships GO!
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Nicx · Trick Member Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Location: hawaii

ddr is not a sport.

quit thinking wrong things.