Is Gaming a sport.

shadesofgrey said:
Edit: Where you you stand on body buiding competitons? Is that a sport? Only thing I can think of atm that probably wouldnt be classed as a game, but is very athletic.
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Good question. It has physical training and conditioning, but seems to be more akin to a competition than a sport. Ie, it's like the X-Factor or competing to grow the largest cucumber. So not a sport for me.

Weight-lifting on the other hand is a sport. You could argue that is well as being a competition there is a basic level of interaction between two lifters: if one lifts 10k, the other must lift 15k. They push each other until one wins. Same with pole-vaulting.

Ie, the performance of one competitor affects the performance of another (or can do).

Are there any sports where two competitors cannot affect each others performances?
 
No it's not a sport, sport's already been defined.. it's rugby, football, etc.

Gaming popularity has gone mental now tho, particularly with Starcraft II. Millions of people around the world recognise the term "E-Sport", and so.. it's an e-sport. Plenty of players are full-time gamers with teams, sponsors, and fans. There's plenty of cash in it for the best of the best.

Doesn't mean you have to see the value in it, I don't see the value in football, but I spend several hours every single day spectating Starcraft II. If you want to get down to the nitty gritty of what it takes to be an e-sport, come back to me when you have 300 APM.

I regularly watch tournaments with tens of thousands of spectators, 50k is very often hit. To put that into perspective, 60k is the capacity of the Emirates Stadium.
 
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It's an e sport.
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Dat twitch.
Also the best scope in the world and he is only 16.
 
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semi-pro waster said:
As in computer gaming? No, it's not a sport. It can be highly skilled and competitive activity (although not when I play) but it's not a sport, in much the same way that snooker, chess and darts aren't sports.
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Snooker and darts are sports, chess isn't.

I don't see why some computer games shouldn't also be classified as sports.

Edit - seems chess is actually a sport... certainly no reason why certain computer games can't be.
 
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This argument is simple to end,

Sports require you to sweat, and not because you just can't finish the level

Gaming is not a sport no matter if they have championships or trophies

I was going to say "Sports require you to be outside" but that doesn't work for swimming
 
Jay794 said:
This argument is simple to end,

Sports require you to sweat
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except they don't necessarily....

and who's to say some fat gamer frantically pressing buttons on his xbox controller etc.. isn't going to sweat - its competitive, has a physical element and requires skill.
 
dowie said:
Snooker and darts are sports, chess isn't.

I don't see why some computer games shouldn't also be classified as sports.

Edit - seems chess is actually a sport... certainly no reason why certain computer games can't be.
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Again I'm going to have to disagree, I know that some people class both or even all three as sports but I think there's something wrong with a definition that includes them as sports. Games which involve a great deal of skill, sure, but not sports.
 
dowie said:
except they don't necessarily....

and who's to say some fat gamer frantically pressing buttons on his xbox controller etc.. isn't going to sweat - its competitive, has a physical element and requires skill.
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That doesn't count, sports require athleticism not chronic obesity
 
Well until I see an official definition, in my mind:

Sports - something you physically need to do; has an element of athleticism; generally alludes to physical prowess; often hand-in-hand with competitiveness.

Gaming by that sense is not a sport. It does however have its own competitive nature, as such is labelled as eSports, or Electronic Sports.

Sports require competition - gaming has competition - therefore electronic sports.

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A sport is something which makes you fitter. The rest are all games.... including darts, snooker, tiddlywinks, chess (unless combined with boxing), and anything which involves sitting at a computer pretending to be doing something physical.

Waggling a mouse about does not count, otherwise masturbation would be a sport too. Now there's an Olympic event we could probably win.
 
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