Great Debate: Are eSports sports?

midnight rain · 05-18-2012, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by FETCHER.

No wonder, you seriously expect people not to make sarcastic comments in a thread about wither gaming is a sport. Get a grip mate.

As a sports coach I hardly even consider Darts and Snooker as a sport. Now kindly see some sense.

If you find the debate laughabe, I don't see why you continue to come back to it. I'm not getting at you personally, but there's a lot of BSing from people in the thread and it's getting old.

From now on I'm going to assume that this contemptuous attitude is a substitute for logic, and that they are admitting that eSports technically is a sport, whether they like it or not.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-18-2012, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by FETCHER.

As a sports coach I hardly even consider Darts and Snooker as a sport.

It's interesting to note that Darts & Snooker were only considered pub games and had no real professional set up until television realised that both were cheap to produce & would gain massive audiences when screened.

That's the only reason they're considered a sport now.

**Janszoon** · 05-18-2012, 10:29 AM

Is foosball a sport?

FETCHER. · 05-18-2012, 10:47 AM

Yes, obviously.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-18-2012, 11:01 AM

Yeah, sadly a lot of our males don't care to be professional rounders players like a lot of your lot.

FETCHER. · 05-18-2012, 11:10 AM

I'm just semi-pro actually.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-18-2012, 11:11 AM

Maybe you could go play for the New York Fudgecakes or something

FETCHER. · 05-18-2012, 11:14 AM

haha, I'm thinking of writing to the commonwealth games. Seen as they will be in my city come 2014.

**Janszoon** · 05-18-2012, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by FETCHER.

Yes, obviously.

I can't wait until they finally have it in the Olympics.

~~FireWaterBurn~~ · 05-18-2012, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

I don't even know why I'm responding, since your whole argument is "HEY LOOK, NERDS! THEY'RE TOTALLY THE SAME AS THE 80's STEREOTYPE, LOL FAT KIDS", and you must have been living under a rock to think thats really applicable to the nerd group, but here, have a few images of good looking and physically fit progamers

Umm... thanks for the peek into your "gamers i think are hott" picture collection. I really do believe that gamers are generally a bunch of nerds who wish they were athletes. Maybe if they can get acceptance from others by calling their gaming a 'sport' they will feel better about themselves. I think it's some sort of deep-seeded jealousy that they would never admit. I can't be certain. If it appeared as though I think every single person to ever pick up a controller or computer mouse was a fat virgin with acne, I apologize. I will clarify that I didn't mean every single gamer.

Either way, gaming isn't an athletic activity. As I've said, if you can do it while drinking Mountain Dew from a sofa, then it's not a sport. From the reasons given for supporting gaming as a sport, I'm not sure there is much that wouldn't apply to other field such as something like journalism. It requires physical activity, there's competition, there are celebrities, there are fans who don't write themselves, etc.

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