Mummelmann on 23 May 2016
| vivster said: What people need to understand is that labeling esport as sport is not labeling every gamer as athlete. There are worlds between a world class pro gamer and your average gamer. I'm not calling myself an athlete because I jogged up the stairs that one time. News flash, in sports there are also pro athletes and amateurs. No one would call amateurs athletes because they don't have the strength and commitment. It's the same for gaming. If you look at what pro esport teams put in training, it puts any amateur sportsman into shame. They do what no ordinary gamer could do and they do it competitively against other great pro gamers. This debate just shows a massive image problem and that most people don't like to look past stereotypes to form an opinion. And if you so badly want to define sports as "strenuous activities that require skill" try do what pro gamers do and not suffer from injuries and headaches. The gull of some people devaluing other people's efforts just to make them feel better is appalling. |
Agree 100% with this. Besides; as I've said a hundred times before, if chess is a sport, there's no reason why pro gaming shouldn't be.
