Esports organized competitions between both amateur and professional teams
buying for a championship title in various electronic video game
competitions AKA a bunch of nerds hold
up somewhere in a dank basement crowning a king of their land or whatever at
least that seems to be the stereotype
that detractors of Competitive Gaming and Gamers default to arguing that
Esports aren't physical enough to bridge the gap from Hobby or game to sport
despite the fact that if we replace electronic video games in my Esports
definition with ball kicking activities
we could use virtually the same definition for traditional Sports many
of the Defenders of Esports embrace the
similarities to sports and will point out that both require training uh
coaching strategizing Lightning Fast decisionmaking skills te teamwork and
extremely practiced muscular reflexes in
order for competitors to achieve Victory and I mean besides if if curling ice
dance and synchronized swimming are going to get a free pass then why are we
even talking about this well I could
just say because they jelly drop the mic and walk off stage but without several
degrees in sport psychology I wouldn't be qualified to speculate on any of that
so I'll stick to what we know empirically makes them so different or
so similar one difference is the type of
physical activity involved there aren't many Esports where a higher you know
jumping height gives you a clear Advantage but while I personally favor
sports for myself and as a parent for the many health benefits of regular
physical exertion we can't really say Froot Loops aren't serial because
they're not healthy or something but raisin brand is when they really are
more similar than they are different for starters in the early days of sports
broadcasting ESPN Founders had difficulty convincing established cable
companies and the press that their All
Sports Network would succeed all of this in spite of the popularity of sports for
both participants and observers at all levels from kids goofing around at home
with their friends to professionals competing in tournaments for cash prizes
sound familiar so the main difference here is that while it took a hundred
years for the NHL to go from having one
of their entire teams the appropriately named 228th Battalion literally call
away to fight in World War I to now
their teams and athletes making millions and enjoying Rockstar status Esports has
completed this progression in a mere 20 or so years with TV deals either in
place or coming around the world massive live exhibitions and Revenue is
estimated at$ 250 to 600 plus million doar for this year with mobas hoarding
The Lion's Share of that first person shooters taking silver and 2D fighting
games in third but if we're going to talk then about similarities to sports
we have to acknowledge the good and the
bad because Esports is not immune to the apparent requirement that wherever money
is involved there will be corruption with a recent ESL that's electronic
sporting League Scandal that had a prominent athlete basically saying yeah
I was doping who cares everyone does it a plethora of online gambling and match
fixing scandals and a recent Crackdown
on highlevel players using software hacks to cheat such as aimbots that
simply identify other players in the game and pretty much shoot them for you
right the last one is particularly interesting for our Sports versus
Esports comparison because digital cheating methods have often been used by
naysayers as an example of why Competitive Gaming shouldn't be
considered a sport but does it matter how someone cheats really I mean if
using a digital camcorder or bicycle pump or whatever to get a leg up on your
competition made whatever you were doing not a sport then it would be pretty hard
to call football a sport the New England Patriots a team or Tom Brady an athlete
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