I'm pretty ambivalent on whether esports are sports or something else. Practicing a lot, getting paid, being widely viewed don't trigger "sports" for me - the same thing can be said for, say, musicians.
One thing I don't know, and someone can enlighten me - is the competition in esports pretty unstable because of changes of the games? I mean to say - hockey is hockey and the game has been around forever, albeit with rule and equipment changes. But in esports do the actual games change or go out of style quickly? Is whatever game is popular now different from what was being played three years ago, and what will be played in three years?
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