03-31-2012, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
Arguments For eSports being legitimate sports:
1 - Pros in the most popular games practice 14 hour days to be at the top of their fields.
2 - The most popular games have professional teams who manage and run contracts for their major players.
3 - Sponsorship exists, and on a very wide scale. Evil Geniuses, a single team, for example, are sponsored by Intel, SteelSeries, Monster Energy, Kingston Technology, InWin, Beyond Gaming, Sapphire Technology, Six Pool Gaming, Bigfoot Networks, Intel Extreme Team, GUNNAR Optiks, SLAPPA, and SPLIT REASON.
4 - The top players are as much celebrities within their scenes as in most other sports. I'm not talking like Soccer or Baseball, which are culturally huge, but any smaller sport like Snooker or Curling or whatever, they have their own stars that are respected, and so does eSports.
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So you mean because they're playing video games for money it becomes a legit sport? Professionalism is not what makes a sport, in fact you could even argue that professionalism ruins sport, a legitimate sport is a physical activity that is at best enjoyed by amateurs. Would you consider a guy sitting in front of his TV at home playing Gears Of War an amateur sportsman?
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