eSports: a true sport or just videogaming?

[lordsynbios]

If they want to call it a sport, I'd have no problem with it, the level of skill is such that I'd put some of the higher players on a par with athlete's. Going by the definition of the word, you'd be hard pressed to convince someone it was a sport, purely on physical exertion. However, definitions evolve other time, words gain, lose or take on new meaning's entirely. I imagine in the not too distant future, either the definition will change or become broader, or we'll have something that better reflects what it is that doesn't have negative connotations in wider society.