Video Games Should Be A Sport

More than half a billion people play computer games and video games for at least an hour a day worldwide. One hundred eighty-three million people in the US alone play video games. In total that's almost 3 billion hours a week worldwide. Video games should be considered a sport because they are competitive and require just as much skill and mental focus as any other sport.

Last year’s League of Legends tournament racked up an acme of 11.2 billion viewers while the NHL (National Hockey League) Final only hit 8 million. These statistics show just how popular video games are and must be recognized as sport. Video games should recognized as sport, for they meet the requirements and compared to other sport they are similar in terms of requiring skill and having scholarships.

Imagine a large arena filled with two competitive teams. The tension grows and finally, one team prevails and is greeted by stupendous amounts of cheering. There are a wide variety of video games that are popular worldwide, and are played by many different people. Video games, and gaming in general, should be considered to be added in the many sport selections because of how similar it is to any other sport: how pro players that get paid, and how a lot of talent is necessary to play.

Should video games be a sport? The article I used is by Jessica Ravitz (CNN). I will tell you about University of Illinois’ video game program. In my opinion video games should be a sport. I will talk about the rooms they practice in, how parents react to their kids playing video games and how you can still get an education.

Gaming should be a sport because they’re many gaming events that take place so it should be a sport. Like many sporting events , only a few of these gaming events are major. E3 Is a type of gaming event that introduce new games and new tournament. I think video gaming should be considered a sport

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.

Video games have been around for many years and so has competitive gaming. The first video game was created around 1970 and was Pong. Pong required one or two players to play. The players would play next to each other and the game required both players to move the courser to the ball and knock in to the other player’s side. Pong was the first competitive video game because you could play with another person. The video game industry now is a very big market and is suspected to be an 86 billion dollar industry in 2016 (A Classification Of Business Models In Video Game Industry). For the past couple of years video competitions have gotten really popular and now there is a franchise called eSports that hosts gaming competitions in big areas. “The past several year’s eSports have seen meteoric growth in dozens of markets, attracting tens of millions of viewers each year in the United States, alone” (Hollist). Esports is made up of many different games and each game has different teams that specialize in the game that they are competing in. E-Sports 89 million viewers in 2014 and is suspected to grow to 145 million in 2017. ("Red Bull Media Readies ESports Studio for Prime Time."). Competitive gaming should be recognized as a sport because each team has a sponsor. The sponsors pay for all associated costs of the player’s gaming including, but not limited to, plane tickets, hotel rooms, and food. In return the teams have to wear the

“Should video games be considered a sport?” Well believe it or not, there’s are kids out there who actually claim it as one. And there is many reasons to why it should be called a sport. Video games is the only thing some kids are good at because not everyone is physically capable of playing sports such as basketball or football. So if they want to say it’s a sport, then why not? It consists of lot’s of competition at games, right equipment, and lots of hard work and dedication.

Video games have become very popular in the past several years. Recently, people have even been making careers out of gaming. The article “Should Pro Gamers be considered Athletes?” talks about whether not professional gamers should be considered athletes. Pro gamers shouldn’t be considered athletes because they aren’t doing anything

Video games should be considered a sport for a variety of important reasons. First of all, some people who play games regularly and are very talented at them, compete against others for cash prices, or even play games as a career. Correspondingly, many professional athletes travel to different Olympic games to compete against others who play the same sport, such as skiing, featured in the winter games. Also, many gamers go to annual events around the world, such as Minecon, to attend a fun fantasizing festival that celebrates their fascinating achievements. Minecon is a yearly festival held for the multiplatform game Minecraft that almost one million gamers play daily. Mostly YouTubers and their fans

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.

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?

Video games are beneficial for students in the classroom and home. Using video games in schools or higher institutions can help build teamwork, foster decisions, critical and strategic skills useful in schools, work and life.

Imagine being scouted for your extraordinary talent. You join a team and train sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. The training is so intense you have little time to spend with family, or friends. Win, or lose you play to improve and, after every draining game, you reflect on your performance and study the game tape. No you do not play basketball, or football, you are a gamer.

When you say "eSports should be broadcasted on television like any other sport," the response is inevitably: "You do know playing video games is not a sport, right?" I am totally okay honestly with that response. Some people may argue that eSports is more of a sport than some sports that get mainstream coverage and are widely considered sports, sports like Nascar, golf, cheerleading, bowling, and fishing. eSports feature live competitions between teams performed in front of an audience of thousands in person and millions watching from home every week.