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[Column] General: Are eSports Sports?
SBFord
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Earlier this month, John Skipper, President of ESPN, the network that, just this summer, had streamed the finals of the $10 million DOTA 2 championship tournament, The International, opined about eSports that “It's not a sport; it's a competition. Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition.” He followed up by saying “Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.” Was this frank, disingenuous, hypocritical or maybe just an unconsidered slip of the tongue?
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Esport is just that, esport, it is not a sport.
I am not interested in watching others play games - one of the reasons I personally do not find twitch enjoyable
I think esports are at a tipping point currently and they are fast becoming a "big thing"
Are pineapples apples? No.
Are esports sports? No.
It's a type of sport. Notice the e before it.
Edit: Does no one here watch Twitch?
Well thank goodness he chimed in on that. I was really confused. WELL!! Back to ESPN's Poker site
http://espn.go.com/poker/
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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
R.A.Salvatore
sport [spawrt, spohrt] Show IPA
noun
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry:
What he said in sport was taken seriously.
mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him..
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At any rate it's a good question, what is the definition of a sport?
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Esport is a sport just like chess, darts or bridge can be a sport. Any game that can be played in a tournament form and you can train for, is sport. So yeah, even participating in DOTA 2 tournaments can be a sport.
Oh and while we are at it, all sports are first and foremost games.
Nice, missing the nail on it's head right there.
I can do that too :
So sex is a sport then?
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So the old Pokémon tournaments at Toys R Us were sports? LoL
I will stick with the chess, darts, bridge are competitions, not sports. Poker and card game tournaments are also not sports, they are competitions. IMO of course, not all competitive games can be considered sports.
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
R.A.Salvatore
Well if you follow the logic here, any idiot could win formula one. All you do is just drive fast and have the best car. There's no actual skill involved that your avg driver doesn't have.
You are creating an arbitrary line. You would probably call curling not a sport if it wasn't already an official Olympic sport. As for needing physical exercise as requirement for calling something sports. Any game that requires you to concentrate for a long period benefits from physical exercise and a healthy diet. It becomes a sport for someone the moment they start specifically training for it with as goal to improve their game.
So it is about how you play a game. Just for fun or for sports
You're using the verb as opposed to the noun. Many words can have different meanings when used either a verb or a noun.
Such is the english language.
Not everyone in bed is a good sport imo
That is a problem then. In my language it is both a verb and noun. Verb used to generally describe the activity participating in sports (sry difficult to describe in english).
When literally translated, making up a new english verb, it could be like this. Specifically : I am playing football . Generally : I am sporting.
One can sport a coat or jacket, you can make sport of someone. How is that related to activities, physical or not?
I didn't say they were right, only that was the logic they seem to think makes them right.
Accountants do that all the time. . .
Shoot, I just did it typing this post with BOTH my hands. . .
I edited my former post to clarify how it is used in my language. Also the underlined bit is actually using the verb sport as taking part in some game. Guess it is still used in my language like that
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He's not adding numbers or typing to his friends..... I play rts games with an accountant friend and he's terribad at them. He never knows where half his units are. So his number typing skills don't seem to translate at all to what that kid was actually doing.