eSports: a true sport or just videogaming?

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SvennoJ on 22 May 2016

If it doesn't make you fit / look sporty then it's not a sport.
Chess is a game, not a sport.

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pokoko on 22 May 2016

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pokoko said:
First of all, who cares? It's just a label.

Second, what is the criteria for a "sport"? Does darts count? Bowling? I assume it has to do with physical movement and competition but how little physical movement is needed to qualify? I have no idea but I bet a lot of people are going to make up definitions based on nothing.

Well, it does need a label. Not me, but for example, eSports gamers sometimes can't get visas as athletes to compete abroad, hence the recent White House petition which, as it is with White House petitions, won't achieve shit.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/uscis-should-recognize-all-esports-legitimate-sports-so-international-players-can-come-us-p1-visas

Sounds more like they just need to update the rules themselves.

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ohmylanta1003 on 22 May 2016

Why the hell does it matter? Why is this always brought up? Who the fuck cares? People always try to label every particular "thing" as a game, sport, neither, blah blah blah. What's the point? They're all competitions and they all require different skills. Enjoy them for what they are.

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Chazore on 22 May 2016

SvennoJ said:
If it doesn't make you fit / look sporty then it's not a sport.
Chess is a game, not a sport.

According to Wiki and very likely other sources (pro players for example), it's a "mind sport".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

With both chess, games and general sports, they require movement and every sport does very much require you to use your brain rather than deliberately shut it off and act like some braindead Neanderthal, this would also mean that a game of wits like chess can count as a mind sport and thus a sport of it's own category.

If you take a look at Korean SCII players you will find that their physical APM is off the charts and their reaction time is insanely fast along with their thought process, again Darts is counted as an actual sport and that definitely most certainly requires one to use both their brain and their acute hand reflexes.

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Frogger on 22 May 2016

There's nothing to consider. It's not a sport. Just call it competitive gaming. Nothing wrong with that.

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Normchacho on 22 May 2016

spemanig said:
There's nothing to consider. It's not a sport. Just call it competitive gaming. Nothing wrong with that.

Well, as is being discussed, it depends on how 'sport' is defined.

The International Olympic Committiee considers chess a sport. Fishing is considered a sport. Cup stacking is considered a sport.

I would bet money that many professional gamers burn more calories in a tournament then the people in any of those sports.

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Mike321 on 22 May 2016

E-sports are their own thing.

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Natsu on 22 May 2016

Okay defenition of sport according to google: "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment" so no it's not a sport it doesn't take phsycial exertion but it is a form of entertainment.