Maybe He Can Enact Some Pro-Gamer Legislation?
One of the legislators for the U.S. state Colorado won the race for governor of the state on Tuesday and it turns out that this new governor, Jared Polis, is quite the gamer!
โGaming is good,โ Polis said to the news outlet, Politico, earlier this year. โIt involves critical thinking skills. It involves tactical skills and strategic skills. And I absolutely think itโs helped me navigate Washington tactically.โ
Apparently, League of Legends is a favorite game of his and, according to Polis, his constituents like to play the game with him.
โOften, they want to play with [Polis]. League of Legends is the kind of game you play together, but alone: You may be at home in Colorado, but youโre fighting off other teams with players in Korea and Belgium and Japan,โ Politicoโs article read. โSo, once heโs vetted them a bitโtalked with them on Reddit for a while, or maybe even met them in personโPolis might give them his handle. (I made the faux pas of asking if itโs close to his name, but he told me that a handle like that would be considered tacky.) โI think people in my district get kind of excited,โ Polis, whoโs 42, says. โโI played against my congressman!โ'โ
While itโs nice that we have one of our own as the head of a U.S. state, one must start thinking about possible pro-gamer laws in Colorado. How about state-mandated day offs for every release day of a major AAA or indie game? Or a state law that guarantees pre-orders to be delivered on their scheduled days? The possibilities are endless!