- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Navillus13
Posted by: FKxPandemic
By defintion, competitive gaming is a sport.
Sport: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.
Well, gaming requires skill, you must be physically(and mentally) better than your opponents, and I'm pretty sure MLG makes it have "competitive nature". The fact that they aren't physically massive, or that they haven't trained their entire lives, has nothing to do with it. If fishing is a sport, video games can be too.
BTW, golfers are in great shape? LOL. Yeah, some are, but see the likes of John Daly, Phil Mickelson, or Craig Stadler.
I bet Phil Mickelson is in better conditioning and has more strength than you think. And is a fisherman considered an athlete? doubt it.
So by your definition, anything that requires 'skill' is a sport now? I could have a field day with that argument.
Where does it say that in the definition. if something is skill based, and has a COMPETITIVE aspect, like a tournament, then its a sport.