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Originally Posted by Split98
You have a really strange way of conversing...
What I was saying is that adding anything to 'sport' doesn't nullify it as a sport, which was your argument:
I agree that all you listed are sports... that was my point.
I'm not the biggest E-Sports guy, so I'd be Googling to support a point I don't really care all that much about. By the broad strokes we qualify 'sports', I personally don't see how we tell E-Sports fans that it isn't.
We have track, ice, rink, motor, extreme, indoor, outdoor, roller... all kinds of sport categories. Ice Dancing, Curling, Golf, Speedwalking, the like are all sports. You can all roll your eyes at anyone from E-Sports or Speedwalking telling us their sporting stories all you want, but I have a pretty hard time watching some E-Sports stuff and deciding that Olympic Speedwalker is a better athlete.
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My point is that you can use all those catagories to group types of sports together. Not so with "e-sports". It is a category that separates it from other sports,and to which no other sports applies. Which is why I am asking for another example of an e-sport. If there is no other sports that can apply to that category, why is there a category? More aptly, if it can't be compared to other sports, is it a sport?
You can quibble over what to call it, but a sport it is not, no matter how many people (short of a majority) choose to call it that.
I love vids. I think that people that make money doing it have a good thing going. I wish it was a thing when I was racking up 1000 trick combos in THPS2. But again, I think e-sports is a buzz word, nothing more..