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Esports organized competitions between both amateur and professional teams

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buying for a championship title in various electronic video game

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competitions AKA a bunch of nerds hold

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up somewhere in a dank basement crowning a king of their land or whatever at

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least that seems to be the stereotype

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that detractors of Competitive Gaming and Gamers default to arguing that

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Esports aren't physical enough to bridge the gap from Hobby or game to sport

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despite the fact that if we replace electronic video games in my Esports

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definition with ball kicking activities

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we could use virtually the same definition for traditional Sports many

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of the Defenders of Esports embrace the

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similarities to sports and will point out that both require training uh

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coaching strategizing Lightning Fast decisionmaking skills te teamwork and

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extremely practiced muscular reflexes in

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order for competitors to achieve Victory and I mean besides if if curling ice

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dance and synchronized swimming are going to get a free pass then why are we

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even talking about this well I could

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just say because they jelly drop the mic and walk off stage but without several

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degrees in sport psychology I wouldn't be qualified to speculate on any of that

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so I'll stick to what we know empirically makes them so different or

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so similar one difference is the type of

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physical activity involved there aren't many Esports where a higher you know

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jumping height gives you a clear Advantage but while I personally favor

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sports for myself and as a parent for the many health benefits of regular

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physical exertion we can't really say Froot Loops aren't serial because

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they're not healthy or something but raisin brand is when they really are

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more similar than they are different for starters in the early days of sports

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broadcasting ESPN Founders had difficulty convincing established cable

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companies and the press that their All

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Sports Network would succeed all of this in spite of the popularity of sports for

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both participants and observers at all levels from kids goofing around at home

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with their friends to professionals competing in tournaments for cash prizes

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sound familiar so the main difference here is that while it took a hundred

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years for the NHL to go from having one

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of their entire teams the appropriately named 228th Battalion literally call

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away to fight in World War I to now

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their teams and athletes making millions and enjoying Rockstar status Esports has

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completed this progression in a mere 20 or so years with TV deals either in

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place or coming around the world massive live exhibitions and Revenue is

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estimated at$ 250 to 600 plus million doar for this year with mobas hoarding

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The Lion's Share of that first person shooters taking silver and 2D fighting

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games in third but if we're going to talk then about similarities to sports

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we have to acknowledge the good and the

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bad because Esports is not immune to the apparent requirement that wherever money

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is involved there will be corruption with a recent ESL that's electronic

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sporting League Scandal that had a prominent athlete basically saying yeah

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I was doping who cares everyone does it a plethora of online gambling and match

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fixing scandals and a recent Crackdown

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on highlevel players using software hacks to cheat such as aimbots that

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simply identify other players in the game and pretty much shoot them for you

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right the last one is particularly interesting for our Sports versus

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Esports comparison because digital cheating methods have often been used by

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naysayers as an example of why Competitive Gaming shouldn't be

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considered a sport but does it matter how someone cheats really I mean if

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using a digital camcorder or bicycle pump or whatever to get a leg up on your

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competition made whatever you were doing not a sport then it would be pretty hard

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