Neapolitan

She was troll from days or yore. Even before my time. Only knew her from people speaking about her, years, maybe months since she left or was perma-banned.

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YorkeDaddy

The amount of ignorance in the first ~20 pages of this thread

ffs

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The Batlord

I know. Some people actually think that eSports are real sports? WTF? The pasty nerds.

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YorkeDaddy

I just don't know why neither side was capable of compromising and saying "ok, eSports can just be their own perfectly legitimate category of their own since nothing has ever been like them until the past decade so trying to lump them together with physical sports is silly"

Both sides were insufferable for the entire debate.

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The Batlord

Are you trying to say that GB was insufferable? Madness.

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Plankton

My perception is that people that play eSports, as well as people that argue the point that eSports are an actual sport are too caught up in the fantasy to think otherwise. They want to believe they have all the same prowess and physical abilities as actual athletes so badly, that it consumes their entire belief system. I'm not saying they're not skilled at what they do, but it's almost like a Curling joke.

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Cuthbert

Snooker is definitely a sport. People comparing it to chess

Thing is with chess/scrabble/cards etc, if you tell someone else to place your move for you, it's still you playing those games if you get me, because the moves are tactical rather than physical execution or a combination of both, whereas in snooker or even golf, execution and physical skill is required every time, you know to get the ball in the pocket/hole but how many people have the skill to actually execute the move? Doesn't matter how well you know the game or the rules.

Darts is a sport as well.

Funny as fuck if you've ever seen someone try to hit a golf ball from a tee or get a break of 10+ in snooker when they've never played before, can't say there's no physical exertion when you see those amatuerish swings and cue actions

btw realise this thread is old, dgaf. Not touching the eSport thing either.

YorkeDaddy

Are you trying to make a point to me or something.

In my most recent post I acknowledged the eSports should not be lumped together with real sports.

However if your entire point is that something has to require a physical action taken by the player to be considered a sport, well then eSports absolutely qualify. There's no chance in hell I can execute combos like the top level players in League of Legends do because I'm a million times worse than them. The greatest play in LoL history by the greatest player in LoL history...



...could only have been executed by maybe 5 people on the planet

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Cuthbert

No I was agreeing with your post (hence ) and then posting my own opinion cos I saw some posters saying cue sports aren't sports.

wrt esports:

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DwnWthVwls

People that don't play competitive video games don't understand the physical dexterity required to be a pro or the mental capacity required to micromanage a game like starcraft or LoL. Half the people that play League probably don't even understand what happened in that play.

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