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The official definition of a sport is, “An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes another or others for entertainment.” Technically they are a sport. Esports (electronic sports) have teams or individuals from countries, states, counties or districts that come that compete in tournaments state, country or worldwide.

E-Sport athletes make money going to tournaments playing video games. E-Sports are on the rise. Call of Duty was actually added to the X-Games back in 2014 and still is part of the major event today. Games like Call of Duty, League of Legends, Counter-Strike Global Offencive, and Halo 5 are a few of the games that have tournaments for millions of dollars in prize money around the world. There are many individuals in this sport that can make a good living from just looking at a screen for hours on end. Optic Nadeshot or Matthew Haag, a very skilled player in the Call of Duty community stated in his video, “$100 to $400,000 Started From the Bottom,” that he makes four hundred thousand dollars a year from competing in Call of Duty tournaments all over the world (2015. E-Sport athletes should not be able to be more wealthy than a college professor. These athletes do not mold students to be good citizens. They play sports on television and make millions of dollars for running and throwing things better than everyone else. To make matters worse, these athletes are not even doing any physical activity for this sport. They are encouraging children to stare at computer monitors playing video games for strenuous periods of time. There is also a major problem in the E-Sports community that is also in the NFL, NHL, MLB, and etc. The abuse of performance enhancing drugs. Many players use drugs to keep themselves focused on the game and to not get distracted by the crowd watching them. The most common use however, is to increase the player's athletic abilities. These players are supposed to be setting a good example right? They are not payed to teach kids to abuse drugs and cheat to

Whether it’s playing video games or watching video games, we get filled with an intoxicating feeling to play or watch more. Throughout generations, there has been an increase of people playing video games and about half the population in the United States plays video games. Since 1980, video games are taken to a different level with eSports, which is competitive electronic gaming tournaments with other competitors. In 2000 to the present , eSports grew in popularity and became known worldwide because of the game “League of Legends”. In 2011 “LoL” tournament ranked over 1.6 million views worldwide and during a “LoL” championship in 2015 over 36 million people were viewing the game. ESport raises this question: “Do video games counts as sports?” Video games do not count as a sport because it does not match the criteria of a sport,video games are luck-based, and are unhealthy.

Along with many other sports, much skill is necessary to compete. Gragan Starrm a writer for the Christian Science Monitor explains how people in gaming consider video games require equal amounts of strategy, teamwork, training, and reflexiveness as real sports (Starr). Major sports like soccer and football require tremendous amount of skill, and gaming is no exception. Alejandro Viramontes, a reporter, strongly relates chess to video games, and how similar they are, “...you have to practice and you have to understand the rules of each game-and how each game works” (Can Video Gaming Be Considered an Actual Sport? ). As a result, each sport and video game require training, as there are steep learning curves for each sport and game. Along with individual skill, teamwork is especially needed for both video games and sports. As Aileen Cerrudo describes it perfectly, athletes are alike gamers including the level of teamwork (Should “eSports” Be Considered As a Sport?). Most video games require teamwork to help win; they can’t win by just one person. This is exactly like most of the sports world wide are like, for example hockey and

In my personal opinion video game should be considered as a sport because video game and sport are the sane if you think about it why you may ask well in a video game you are tryig to reach the next level and in a sport you are also trying to reach the mext level in both topic your aslo trying to win and you work hard to win there not much to prove but that honestly so yes video game should be considered as a sport

Is the art of playing video games a sport? Video games are indisputably a sport. The biggest argument over the past years has been that video games should not be considered a sport due to the lack of physical exertion. People claim that a sport is an activity that has to do with your body physically moving like basketball, football, etc. but take for instance chess. Chess is considered a sport in Asia, Europe, and in America; in fact, there is even an Olympiad for chess, in which no physical movement is involved. Just like any other sport, the art of playing video games include intensive training, elaborate strategy, and elite competitions which are exactly what constitutes a sport.

What is a sport? If it is a sport should it automatically be allowed as a game in the Olympics? What/Who decides what events can be in and what can not? The Olympics stand as a beacon, a place for athletes across the globe to come and compete. What is an athlete? An athlete is a person who puts time and dedication into a competitive game, it does not have to be physical but it does have to take skill to play. High levels of play for video games do take tremendous amounts of skill. What is a video game? Most people think of video games as story based movies that you can interact with, but in fact they have another side that people do not see. Video Games are also extremely competitive and have a tremendous amounts of teamwork, when game has these qualities they become an eSport. Having eSports as an Olympic sport adds significant opportunities for: expanding viewership of the event, promoting the games that are played, more people would come to the physical event. However there are some negative effects to promoting video games, people who think that videogames are a waste of time, others will say that it would promote laziness in the Olympics. Overall adding esports to the olympics would greatly increase the profits and widen the range of cultures that would attend.

Imagine an enormous arena completely filled with screaming, ecstatic fans cheering for their corresponding teams that have come to compete that day. Behind the scenes, the athletes are nervous, they are about to compete in the biggest, most important event of their lives. However, they are professionals, so they have trained a majority of their lives for this moment, constantly practicing their craft, going over film, and working alongside their teammates in order to achieve their ultimate goal, winning the championship. This description at first look may seem to be describing a championship sporting event such as the NBA Finals, the World Series, Stanley Cup Finals or even the World Cup Final. However, none of these events are what is being depicted. What is actually being illustrated is the finals for numerous Esports competitions such as the League of Legends World Championship or the StarCraft World Championship Series. Ever since the first invention of video games, there has always been a stigma that came with being a gamer. Gamers have always been labeled as geeky, nerdy, immature, and even fat and lazy. Some of the public’s perception of Esports as well as their desire to not have it labeled as a real sport in Esports’ brief history exemplifies the stigma and negative connotation of the word “gamer.” However, in the increasingly innovative and technological modern world, the idea that Esports should not socially or legally be considered to be a real sport has become

It’s preposterous and a dream come true, the profession of an elite gamer. In this day and age, this recreational activity is considered a career. The professional sports they had in previous generations are transitioning into eSports, one of the fastest growing industries in the United States, South Korea, and other places around the world. “To put the skyrocketing of eSport viewership into perspective, the 2013 League of Legends Season 3 World Championship’s thirty-two million viewers surpassed both the BCS National Championship and game seven of the NBA Finals by seven million, and more than doubled the viewership of the World Series.” (Kasten) With this career, however retirement comes quickly and fame dissipates gradually. The career of a famous professional gamer is very dynamic and never set in stone. Although it is theoretically an enjoyable career, professional gamers develop huge drawbacks which include persistent stress, video-game related health problems, and early retirement, which leaves the gamer living under inhumane circumstances. The negative outcomes that result from the famous gamer profession, greatly outweigh the positives.

Competitive gaming, also known as e-sports, is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. With huge events and tournaments that are watched by millions of passionate fans, many people are beginning to question whether playing video games can be considered a real sport. Even though e-sports may not be as physically demanding as traditional sports like football and basketball, the structure, strong fan base and the requirements to seriously contend in the competitive gaming scene legitimize it as a “real” sport.

League of Legends, a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game made for the computer took gamers around the world by storm in October of 2009. What began as a small, fresh take on battle arena games 5 years ago, has evolved into the most, if not, one of the most full-fledged successful free-to-play games of our generation. Before it’s time, many gamers around the world yearned for a game which offered intense, fast-paced, team-oriented gameplay, a dedicated and passionate community, and a revival of e-sports competitions. League of Legends, a game where two teams each consisting of 5 unique “champions” (the characters you control) armed with 4 unique skills to destroy your opponents with, go head to head to see who can destroy the opposing team’s base first, offered every aforementioned aspects. The producing company, Riot Games, have been perfecting the three mentioned aspects of the game for the past five years, which has caused League of Legends to sky rocket to the top of the gaming world as the number one game of our generation. Gameplay, community, and competitiveness is what makes League of Legends the top game of its genre. Although League of Legends sounds like the perfect game, it does lack in areas such as gameplay balance, and the conformity of the public towards what is called “the meta”, a term to describe the temporary current norms or strategies of gameplay, causing a lack in diversity of composition, the many other defining aspects outweigh these

A sport is defined as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature. Competitive. Competition is a rivalry between two or more persons or groups for an object desired in common, usually resulting in a victor and a loser. Something to argue would be if a competition could legitimately be considered a sport. The word ‘compete’ is in the definition of sport after all. So, should eSports, or Electronic Sports, be considered a sport?

Dota 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux .The Dota 2 is played in matches between two five-player teams known as radiant and dire, each of which occupies a stronghold in a corner of the playing field. A team wins by destroying the other side's "Ancient" building, located within the opposing stronghold. Each player controls one of 111 playable "Hero" characters that feature unique powers and styles of play. During a match, the player collects gold, items, and experience points for their Hero, while combating Heroes of the opposite team.

If one has never played a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game before (commonly referred to as a MOBA) it can seem like a daunting and yet entertaining task. After taking the time to select and download the game you are wanting to play, such as Smite, Dota 2, and the most popular game currently, League of Legends. Each game begins with the player picking a character with unique abilities, and getting teamed up with 4 other players with the objective of getting to the opposing teams base on the opposite side of the map and destroying it. To get there, they have 3 different lanes they can run down, and a fourth lane of sorts running down the middle of the field, known as the jungle. This lane connects to the other three, and provides fast

An arena full of cheering fans. The air is tense as the timer ticks down. A team is victorious! The crowd stands and cheers. The winning team is handed a trophy as viewers at home share the experience on ESPN. Most would picture a basketball tournament, but this scenario is one I personally witnessed at the Halo 5 World Championship at the Winter X-Games. The world of e-sports, where teams compete in popular online or console games, such as “League of Legends” and “Halo” and viewed by fans, is part of the mainstream culture of gaming. Gaming started in 1972 when Pong was introduced on an arcade platform. A new form of entertainment was created and its popularity quickly evolved gaming into a new subculture. Further advancements in newer