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Originally Posted by dieHARDflameZ
Saying competitive gaming is a sport is like saying poker is a sport, what a joke.
You’re sitting at a table staring at a computer screen. To me a sport is something that involves some kind of physical activity and yes that includes golf.
I used to play competitive counter-strike and honestly, it’s not a sport at all.
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Playing Competitively and actually travelling the globe 10 out of 12 months of the year are 2 completely different aspects though.
There's lots of kids who play "competitively" from their home every day, matches, scrims, pugs etc in an online capacity. Even local LAN tournaments are considered competitive but fail to reach the scale of the international scene.
This in itself doesn't define the "e-sport" aspect of the game at all, we're talking the top 20-30 teams who are living this day to day, being paid 6 figure salaries flying from country to country competing and doing marketing promo's for their various sponsors.
You can't tell me for a second that a team like compLexity for example isnt held to a higher standard of gaming when their HQ in Texas shares the same building as the Dallas Cowboys. Their "e-sports" players are treated and have the same access to all the facilities (personal chefs, gym, lounge etc) as the Cowboys football players themselves, often bumping into past and present players every day. This doesn't include the mental and physical coaches some of these bigger teams have, its quite astonishing (at least to me) how far the games evolved even going back 4-5 years ago.
The competitive scene has changed completely, anyone who disagree's likely doesn't understand what it takes in its entirety. Nobody is saying E-Sports = the NFL or NHL, but to say its nothing more than booting up your PC and pressing buttons is asinine.
I've lived this first hand many moons ago, a fraction of what these kids do these days and can honestly say even back then its mentally exhausting trying to stay at the top of your game while being away from your family and friends 3/4 of the year.