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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #30 on: January 07, 2021, 08:43:51 PM »
I have never considered video games as a sport,  I find it funny to think that I play sports sitting on my couch having a beer. What bothers me about these things is that they want to consider video games a sport and for example, they eliminate Karate from the next Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.
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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #30 on: January 07, 2021, 08:43:51 PM »

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #31 on: January 26, 2021, 09:06:04 PM »
Sport is not necessarily physical activity; competition is a more appropriate term for this phenomenon. After all, chess is also a sport.

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2021, 06:03:29 PM »
I will slightly disagree with OP that games should not be considered as sports. This is my own view, i understand that both physical and virtual gaming of all sort is a sport but some of these sports involve physical sporting (exercising) while some require virtually sporting with your brain and mind. I may be very very wrong  :D

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2021, 12:38:41 PM »
There are games that affect the thought processes and develop them, like chess. Since games have become a sport, many players have had the opportunity to get out of their small financial situation, which is a plus

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #34 on: March 13, 2021, 08:51:02 PM »
It's an interesting question. A counter-question, which organ consumes the most energy? Exactly, the brain. A chess game is not without it.
Let me tell you something about golf. I am a golfer myself. When I play 18 holes, I first have to cross 10-15 kilometres. I also have to complete a few strokes, let's say at least 80. Before that, 50 when warming up.
You have to do the same on a golf simulator. Without 10 KM walking. Many underestimate the energy lost in the golf simulator because many do not play golf.
E-sport is sport but in a different way than we have known it for years. It will continue to evolve, just like bitcoin

To stay fit, I still have to do something in the gym, depending on my ambitions. CrossFit people will never accept it. But what will these people do when they are 60-70 years old? I will still play golf. And in bad weather on my golf simulator.


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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2021, 12:28:34 PM »
For those that say video games isn't a sport, I would challenge this. E-sports is a thriving industry, participants of it must be both mentally and physically fit. Take F1 E-sports as an example, e-sport drivers drive a simulated circuit resembling the "real life" one, and practice / examine it more times than "real life" drivers, due to the set-up a video game offers. This in theory, could make them better drivers, as more can be done in shorter periods of time studying subtle details. Saying video games aren't a sport, you could use same theory that chess isn't a sport. They both are, as both require physical exertion and skill, regardless of the degree you define it by

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2021, 05:08:38 PM »
Why not! After all, the definition of the word Sport (derived from the original Old French desport - "game", "entertainment") is an activity of people (athletes) organised according to certain rules, consisting in comparing their physical and/or intellectual abilities, as well as training for this activity and the interpersonal relationships arising in the process of it.

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #37 on: March 16, 2021, 06:08:26 AM »
Of course, you are right! Video games are not sports but just entertainment because we just sit at one place and place on the screen just for enjoyment. At least some 3D games like virtual reality games they can make your body move like crazy! Maybe we can call that a sports game :)

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #38 on: May 30, 2021, 08:36:43 AM »
Yes, video games should be considered a sport. Rooted in competition, involving athletic ability, requiring practice and physical activity, taking place in stadiums, and cheered on by diehard fanatics, video games and the playing of them checks all of the required boxes.

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #39 on: June 23, 2021, 06:55:10 PM »
Well... I love video games, but I use them only for one purpose - relax!

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #40 on: August 16, 2021, 02:39:29 PM »
it is considered as sport, as it involved mental activity and physical activity but limited to hand movement and it is somewaht called as e-sport.

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #41 on: August 26, 2021, 01:53:50 PM »
it is considered as sport, as it involved mental activity and physical activity but limited to hand movement and it is somewaht called as e-sport.

Working as a bricklayer also involves physical and mental activity, for example, but they are not athletes. I think that for video games to be considered a sport, participants must have some kind of special training, like athletes. For a person to be seated and use their hands to press buttons doesn't seem like elite training to me. Sport involves physical activity, and moving only your hands I don't know to what extent it is physical activity.
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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #42 on: September 02, 2021, 03:36:38 PM »
Would competitive bricklaying not be considered a sport though?

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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #43 on: September 03, 2021, 10:46:09 AM »
Would competitive bricklaying not be considered a sport though?

I don't think so, but I'm not sure. I put that example because it was the first thing that came to mind. If we are to consider a sport anything that needs our attention and mental agility, everything in life should be a sport. I understand that they call it e-Sport, but I do not understand that they call it sport like any other of those that exist, because they have nothing in common.
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Re: Should video games be considered a sport?
« Reply #44 on: September 06, 2021, 04:03:18 PM »
What people consider a sport is pretty nebulous, come to think about it. Some people consider chess a sport, though the competition there is entirely mental, apart from having to have the endurance to play for hours on end.

 

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