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Old 05-19-2012, 06:36 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Give it up tore, the guy is more intent on throwing out blanket generalisations and insults than he is in actually discussing anything on the grounds the discussion was intended. He's obviously not read any of the preceding 15 pages of discussion either, because everything he's been saying was discussed to death by page 8 or so.

Thus far exactly zero counterpoints have been raised that haven't relied on some sort of innate instinctual defining of sports as no more than strenuous physical activity, a point that has been addressed at length already. Nobody has even attempted to claim that eSports do not contain some other defining element of sporting competition. Its all been about the physical side, and speaking truthfully, I think big3 nailed it when he said this:

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I don't even know how we begin to have a conversation if you don't refute a counterpoint.

"Its purely physical!"
"Says who? Here are a few ways they aren't physical"
"But sports are physical!"

/splosions
Its evident that either nobody CAN provide a compelling argument to the contrary, or nobody is WILLING to provide a compelling argument to the contrary.
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