Isn’t breakdancing at the Olympics now? 
CoD, Counter strike tournaments. Always have done so I follow the players that I like when they retire ill probably stop watching it.
Its a weird argument i wouldn’t call it a sport normally but the top level players have monthly contracts spend their life training and practicing. Have thousands of fans fill out stadiums and a very small % of the population can ever be good enough to compete with the best.
Winning millions of pounds and dedicating your prime to be the best is what sport is all about. Haha
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If while competing you are sat down and stationary then for me you aren’t competing in a sport.
Thats not to denigrate esports or act as if the people competing aren’t professionals and highly skilled, and have to train/practice a lot in order to excel in their field.
I think a bit like with wrestling (WWE style stuff, not Olympic style wrestling) fans, when others (accurately) say it’s not a sport this is taken as an insult. When I say they aren’t sports it isn’t about showing disrespect, its just saying they don’t belong in that particular category of entertainment.
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Physically no but mentally yes. Like some ppl say auto racing isn’t a sport, I guess thats a bit different because the demands of being in a hot car require u to be in very good physical shape too. But for e-sports you have to have lightning fast reflexes and be very mentally focused. It’s an interesting debate.
e-Sports is just a horrible name, putting a letter in front of an already existing word is the kind of thing companies pay an uninspired, overpaid PR company millions for, and is part of what is wrong with the world these days.
I just call it competitive gaming because that’s what I consider it. Shit like r6 and Counter Strike is legit. Shit like FIFA which is essentially a coin flip simulator is a complete shambles and has no business being in competitive gaming until they take out all the random number generated, scripting, momentum, DDA nonsense out of it.
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It’s an interesting debate in your head but it isn’t in mine lol. It’s not a sport and I can never wrap my head around the idea that it is
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This question is debatable even in esports circles for the record, it’s not clear cut even in it’s own communities what it should be.
@Bl1nk I watch League, Dota2 and some CounterStrike. Used to watch quite a bit of FGC before covid.
I watch it like it’s sports but I dunno, it feels like it’s missing legitimacy to actually be called a sport, I think lack of longevity and stability (It’s still in a bubble financially) plays a big part in that, also the fans. You guys find that twitter geek football shite stats-obsession annoying? Wait till you see e-sports lmao.
Agree with @Castiel e-Sports is just a shite name all around.
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The GSL (SC2) is the only e-sport I watch.
If I’m gaming with friends I’m not suddenly practicing a sport. Before someone adds the professional element to it…professional footballers and us in a neighborhood park, both play football / a sport. One for the money, we recreational, but it’s still sport. As is with e-Sports and Fifa with your buddies, but it’s gaming.
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One of my previous employer also had a egaming division (COBX) and there was a guy who was fat and used to walk with a limp.
Good for him that he was presumably good at what he did, but It would be a travesty to call him a ‘sportsman’.
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Pretty much how I see it too. It’s a new age version of sports but not necessarily a Sport ss we know it.
The F1 eSports got me through lockdown early last year when all sport was off. It’s quite entetaining stuff.
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CS 1.6 days man, golden age of gaming, ahhhhh.
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CS:S was epic. Played that game for hundreds of hours online.
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