- KEVINBROCK
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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
Kevin's post = breath of fresh air.
Take it from this guy people, he knows what he's talking about.
Second accounts are NOT cheating:
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=13824
Posted by: Navillus13
Posted by: KEVINBROCK
I completely agree with Critical (god help me). Read my above post if you still arent clear on exactly what it takes to be an MLG player. It does take mental toughness and ill guarantee you that its more mentally stressful than any sport that youve played.
I guarantee its NOT. Not even close...I doubt any MLG gamer has ever puked or passed out due to shear exhaustion or has had trouble walking up and down a flight of stairs after a competition. You have no clue what you are talking about.
Golf is a sport, how many golfers do you see sweating? Golf is a mental game with some physical activity. Nascar was mentioned earlier. It takes skill and money to be good at Nascar but how many pot-bellied drivers are there out there?
Well since human body weight is a factor in NASCAR driving, not many... and professional golfers are in great physical shape.
Want some more examples of sports that take very little physical activity but take tons of hand-eye coordination and mental toughness?
Nascar
Golf
Bowling
Poker
Professional shooting
Poker shouldn't be on that list.. and doesn't professional shooting require running from target to target and its timed??
So basically youre saying that if Doyle Brunson looses at the last table of the WPC then he is just gonna get up, shrug his shoulders at the million dollars on the table and say "I guess ill just have to try next time"? Ive got news for ya, just beause it dosent take physical strength to play dosent make it any less of a sport. Some sports require more hand-eye coordination and mental prowess than actual physical ability. All the poeple that play the above sports would slap the -blam!- out of you right now if they read this.....go tell Gilbet Arenas that MLG isnt a sport.
I'd like to see a poker player try to slap the -blam!- out of me if I said that to them... All of the others I said are sports anyway. Gaming and poker are activities. Sports have athletes. Sometimes MLG players ARE athletes outside of just playing games.. and I never called any of them nerds with no lives. I just would never put MLG on the same pedestal of things like NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, PGA etc etc... sports in which people have trained THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. Which MLG player has been playing Halo 2 since they were 8? none. (unless of course there is an MLG player who is 10 years old.)
Actually, I do know EXACTLY what im talking about. I ran track and CC and played baseball in High school. I used to wake up at 5 every morning and run 8 miles with my CC team and then go to track practice after school with Baseball in between. All the while, I was making A's and B's in school. Ive ran in the ice and rain until I couldnt stand anymore and it was so cold that I couldnt breathe. I know exactly what a sport is. so yes, MLG is a sport.
sport /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spawrt, spohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9. a sportsman.
10. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
13. Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14. Obsolete. amorous dalliance.
As taken from www.dictionary.com's definition of the word SPORT. Read Definition 1, 2 and 3.
"an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc." Id say that playing MLG takes "physical prowess", "skill" and is of a "competetive nature". Notice also that Bowling, Golf, Hunting and Fishing were all involved in this. Guess what? Theyre sports. Just because professional video gaming is new dosent make it any less of a sport.
Like I said earlier, some of these kids practice as many hours as any other athlete, just because its more of a mental game than physical dosent diminish the amount of skill required to compete at this level.
I also noticed that you brought up " Which MLG player has been playing Halo 2 since they were 8? none. (unless of course there is an MLG player who is 10 years old". And the answer is.......Lil Poison! Now on to the Bonus round.
Just because these kids are young and dont have alot of life expirence dosent mean that they dont have drive, desire, dedication and discipline.
Have you watched Nascar lately? Those guys arent exactly 200 lbs.
[Edited on 06.20.2007 9:34 AM PDT]