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Originally Posted by stone hands
Esports will be on sportsnet/ESPN primetime in your lifetime(unless you're 70 years old), this is just an inevitability
Sometimes it's funny to me to see people who are still in denial about the popularity of esports, I imagine this is what it was like right as football/hockey was taking off at the turn of the century
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I don't know that this is what they are disputing. I think they are disagreeing on whether esports are sports, not whether people like to watch them. Jai alai isn't popular but no one disputes it's a sport. Televised tournament or high stakes poker is pretty darned popular (not as much as couple years ago) but not many people would call it a sport. Then there's a whole range of stuff in between, from darts to golf to autosports to sailing to Irish dancing, etc.