Pro gaming is NOT a sport.
 

[url:55bba]http://www.gamespy.com/top10/april03/progaming/[/url:55bba]

Heh, pretty interesting.

dmanit why must i be ahead of you? and everyone else it seems. but yeah gaming is obviously not a sport, i dont know who would even consider it one

Those fat computer maniac losers kind of people.

Gotta disagree with this review. I think it's trying to pigeon hole GAMING into a "sport" atmosphere when it should be put in the same category as games like CHESS - where THOUSANDS of people DO come and watch TWO spectators go at it.

GAMING could EASILY develop it's own league of players, CONSISTENT players, and be taken seriously. It's simply the WEALTH of games, and gamers out there that almost make this impossible.

And no offense, but I think SHAQ, WEBBER, JORDAN, KIDD, etc take basketball VERY seriously - and DO practice to be the best. They love what they do - but I'm sure theyd rather be the BEST, than someone who "just likes" what they are doing.

i play it cause it enetertains me, but those other guys go into contests and it's really getting creepy.

They go into contests cause they want money. Lol.

That guy on MTV's "Im a Gamer" - was pretty nerdy...but fuck it he won 10 G's to play some b00n in a LAN game. I mean come on. Hell fucking yea I'd do it.

And it's a competetion -

ANY competetition you get pumped up and excited. That's the nature of it all. When shits on the line, its all cool to have fun and all - but you HAVE to get serious.

yeah i know, but some other guys that take it too seriously like they got their station and strategy guides and read those game magazines all day long.

I read GAMESPOT all day long. oOo:

But then, NFL fans read SI, and listen to KFBK AM "Home of the [insert futbol team name here]!"

[quote:3519c]After all, they don't call alcoholics "professional drinkers" now, do they?[/quote:3519c]
haha i lauged at that pretty hard

i guess its kinda like a sport. i mean you have to practis hard in most cases to become good at it, you join cteams (clans). too bad you dont get pair like a pro sports guy.

So is pro gaming just when you enter competitions to win money, or anytime you join a clan that participates in OGL, TWL, etc? Cause if that is the case, then I guess I used to be a pro gamer, but I never took the matches seriously. Yeah I got pissed off when my guys wouldn't do well, or not follow someone's orders, but still, it was all in good fun.

It may not be a sport but you are more likely to get a serious injury from playing perpeutualy on a PC than you are in a lot of real sports out there.

But then eery single man out there runs the risk of similar RSI to the wrist incidents and that could never be called a sport.

Seriously, though, there is only one thing preventing online/lan gaming events from going 100% commercially competetive and that's the spectators.

Every sport or official game gains credibility as soon as it starts pulling in ratings, and for the time being there's not really a market for watching two pasty white chimps glaring at a monitor and yelling "ghey h4x0rs" insults at eachother.

The general public just don't want to watch a video game for entertainment.

They are designed to be entertaining to play not watch.

Gaming is close to this dream and every day it gets closer, but aside from highly funded LAN party style competitions where you're only gonna make a decent amount of money from winning (or sponsorship, if you're a lucky bastard) there's little out there to call a sport at all.

Fuck me, if I could even be classed as a semi-pro gamer and get a contracted salary higher than my current one you bet I'll be handing in my resignation to my current employer.

I'm no geek but being paid to play games 8 hours a day instead of working in an office?

Shyeh.

considering I was a swimmer for 11 years of my life, the idea of video games as a sport is a friggin joke

Fishing is classed as a sport, these days. So is darts for the love of God.

Neither requires any actual physical exersion.

The term sport conjures up a picture of a physical ativity or game that players compete in.

I think someone removed the physical bit as a mutually exclusive term.

If Pool and Snooker are sports, and they are technically just 3d multiplayer games on a board, then why couldn't a 3d mulitplayer game shown on a screen be one?

I think the issue here is everyone's terminology of what a sport is.

Is it a game or is it a physical contest? Or both? Or either?

I don't really care biggrin:

i had no idea that a person could go "pro" in videogames. oOo:

It's an entire league of N3RDS!

Indeed.

considering that they put curling in the Olympic games (and I've heard that they are considering paintball) I don't see why computer games can't be called a sport too

I actually listened to one of The Dark Realm's (TDR) matches on some site. That was back in early early March, possibly one of the first league matches. It was interesting to hear play-by-play comentary on a game. They were playing V2. I think TDR won; they were pretty good until they split up.

[quote="Sgt Stryker":dd3eb]considering that they put curling in the Olympic games (and I've heard that they are considering paintball) I don't see why computer games can't be called a sport too[/quote:dd3eb]

Paintball would be bad-ass in the olympic games! It would be the only interesting sport to watch....!

I'm bored of the summer olympic events....Winter still has my interests...

[quote="Sgt Stryker":87142]considering that they put curling in the Olympic games (and I've heard that they are considering paintball) I don't see why computer games can't be called a sport too[/quote:87142]

Paintball would be bad-ass in the olympic games! It would be the only interesting sport to watch....!

I'm bored of the summer olympic events....Winter still has my interests...

Heh they should have Airsoft World War III. Get like 200 people from each country and put them in a 200 mile field with all different types of land features. That would be interesting.

[quote="Gothic_child180":1ceb9]Heh they should have Airsoft World War III. Get like 200 people from each country and put them in a 200 mile field with all different types of land features. That would be interesting.[/quote:1ceb9]

I can see it now:

team France surrenders,
team USA all shoot each other,
team Iraq get's D.Q.ed for holding spectators hostage,
the Japanese get pissed because they don't get bayonets and Samurai swords,
etc.

here's my definition of a sport, i know it's gonna anger some people, but here it is:

Something is not a sport unless it involves a ball, excluding table top games like foosball, pingpong and pool. Any other "activities" are either just activities or means of transportation (running, swimming, racing...)

roflmao yeah right! swimming not a sport? fuck swimmers are the best athletes in the world

So swimming, wrestling, running, high jumping, long jumping, ect aren't sports? What are they then?

so, paintgball involves a ball, OK, OK, squadrons and squadrons of balls.
does that make paintball a sport?