The growth of esports is showing no signs of slowing down, and with the results of the recent Asian Games and its esports showcase, many have taken up the call to include esports in other major events such as the Olympics. The finals of the League of Legends competition at the Asian Games proved to be a massive draw in terms of viewers and interest, however the idea of seeing esports at the Olympics is still facing some push back from the organization.

Thomas Bach, International Olympic Committee President, spoke on the topic with the Associated Press over the weekend. “We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination,” he told the AP. “So-called killer games. They, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot therefore be accepted.”

This isn’t a new stance for Bach or the IOC, presenting the idea that we’re extremely unlikely to see games such as Counter-Strike or Call of Duty on the Olympic stage. However, games such as League of Legends and Dota 2 present an interesting conundrum, as despite the aim of the game being to kill the enemy and destroy their base, the relative violence is muted due to the nature of MOBA’s in general.

Associated Press did bring up the issue of violence in sports, particularly combat sports such as Judo or Fencing, of which Bach won a gold medal for in the 1976 Olympic Games. “Of course, every combat sport has its origins in a real fight among people,” said Bach. “But sport is the civilized expression about this. If you have egames where it’s about killing somebody, this cannot be brought into line with our Olympic values.”

It seems that for now, some more convincing will need to happen before we see esports on the main stage, but as we’ve seen with the Asian Games, the process is happening.