The only 'sport' where a 300lb blob of fat with the motor skills of a retarded toddler can be competitive, virtual athletes, what a joke :lol:.First of all, gaming obviously requires very good motor skills, and second of all there are tons of questionable sports, for some of which you can easily be a fat blob. Darts, cue sports, chess, motorized sports, shooting, fishing, curling, sailing and so on.
Lets get it back on track.
This is just an excuse for nerds to tell people they do sports when people ask them though isn't it. The dictionary literally defines a sport as 'a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job:'. I don't personally believe that clicking a mouse and keyboard counts as physical effort. Just call it what it is, video games. Its a competition, a challenge, a league, but it sure as hell ain't a damned sport.
Lets get it back on track.Do you move your mouse with your mind?
This is just an excuse for nerds to tell people they do sports when people ask them though isn't it. The dictionary literally defines a sport as 'a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job:'. I don't personally believe that clicking a mouse and keyboard counts as physical effort. Just call it what it is, video games. Its a competition, a challenge, a league, but it sure as hell ain't a damned sport.
First of all, gaming obviously requires very good motor skills, and second of all there are tons of questionable sports, for some of which you can easily be a fat blob. Darts, cue sports, chess, motorized sports, shooting, fishing, curling, sailing and so on.
Do you move your mouse with your mind?
Wow Esports, so impressive, such a display of physical skill and control.
Brb gonna go fuck my Egirlfriend, need tissues to clean the disk tray after
Blind hate? Who's blind hating? Being a competent computer game athlete is an admirable and impressive physical feat, kinda like all that totally real sex i'm having with my computer whilst reading that Full Metal Alchemist porn manga for the 20th time (you know the one I mean)
It's just a fancy name for playing games, gaming, being a gamer. The term 'Esport' sounds too self-glorifying.
But I retract my bit about the FMA porn manga, crazy coincidence that I posted this *before* I saw your post about that freaky Chimera dog. I cant argue with a FMA Brother.
I class it the same as youtubers who make money playing minecraft for 10 year old kids, it confuses me more than anything. I don't dislike the people who do it (I have a very limited knowledge of them) I just don't see the appeal of it myself, but then again I don't play any of the popular streaming / esports games so that might have something to do with it.
Im still surprised how gamers can be so hateful towards e-sports.
In the same way people who like to play football with friends hate professional football, money laundering, criminals, corruption and everything that goes with it. There are many people who like many aspects of sport, but aren't into overly competitive and highly beneficial nature popularity brings to some sports. Making a sport your job is wrong imho and I equally dislike professional footballers and their way of earning for life just like I dislike these e-sport pro-gamers.
Was a huge fan of chadz and cmp as modders too, they were great at it. Can't say the same for chadz/cmp as professional software developers. Innocence and goodwill is important for some people.
Might take ''skills'' to get at that level, but it sure as hell isn't a sport.
The World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) is a quadrennial multi-sport event created by the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) as a "stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the Summer and the Winter Olympics)".[1] The Games are considered to be very prestigious and are the equivalent of the Olympics for Bridge, Chess, Go, and Draughts.
Five mind sports participated in the first Games: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), go (weiqi), and xiangqi (Chinese chess).
But physical sport had noble roots, universities started the whole thing, even back to Ancient Greece.
Dude they just didn't have computers so they thought running fast is a good idea to kill spare time.visitors can't see pics , please register or login
Wow Esports, so impressive, such a display of physical skill and control.
Brb gonna go fuck my Egirlfriend, need tissues to clean the disk tray after
They should def call it something else than e-sport tbh. I just like disagreeing with Heskey because I'm a professional contrarian, but there's something to the word sport "glorifying" professional gaming as something it is not. Not sure why the label e-sport should stick, it's not a very accurate one, except for the e part. No one calls chess a "mind sport" in common parlance. Professional gaming sounds good enough to me. E-sport sounds like the brainchild of some marketing department team.
Manchester United Football Club and Fnatic have entered a bidding war, with both organizations looking to sign the same Overwatch team
Manchester United would not be the first major soccer brand to get involved in esports. German soccer team FC Schalke 04 recently signed the EU LCS roster formerly known as Elements, Valencia CF signed four Hearthstone players and West Ham United has signed a FIFA 16 player.
Slight necro, but relevant.
It seems that football clubs have started entering the e-sports scene 8-)
Slight necro, but relevant.
It seems that football clubs have started entering the e-sports scene 8-)
Slight necro, but relevant.
It seems that football clubs have started entering the e-sports scene 8-)
How does Overwatch even have teams that good already such that multiple companies are bidding on them? I know it had beta tests in the past, but weren't those limited to a week each or so? These nerds have only been playing the game for like a month in total and already they're poised to make bank. Meanwhile I'm just sitting here at my normal job doing un-fun work things and making a small fraction of what they'll end up with... :(
Computer gaming has some physical aspects apart from muscle memory and other non-conscious imprinted reflex responses.
Personal anecdote of the positive traits I gained from gaming:
Right hand: Improved short distance movement precision, index and middle finger mouse click speed is faster(thumb only slightly affected since I was a poor 3-button mouse owner in my early years)
Left hand: Button clicking speed which is quicker but less precise than the right hand's mouse clicking speed.
These are physical traits(muscle and nerve efficiency in the hands), it is not exclusively brain-wiring that fires neural impulses in a conditioned manner, there are real physical traits that has been trained on top of that.
My opinion on the whole E-Sports thing has much more to do with linguistics:
The S in Sports should not be capitalized, it is not a "Sport" of the type "e", it is a "sport" within "E"
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How does Overwatch even have teams that good already such that multiple companies are bidding on them? I know it had beta tests in the past, but weren't those limited to a week each or so? These nerds have only been playing the game for like a month in total and already they're poised to make bank. Meanwhile I'm just sitting here at my normal job doing un-fun work things and making a small fraction of what they'll end up with... :(
There are rumours saying that Valve is working on ranked play overhaul for TF2. Should bring game to life when done, especially because it is completely free unlike Overwatch.
Or maybe video games have made me better at shit IRL?
Individual marketable skills gained from Strategus:
-Spamming a group PM on crpg.net with goals and instructionsWorking with a team
-Making sure dots move across the map when and where we want themMicromanagement and coordination of a team
-Shittalking Bruttus until he quits the modEffective communication at all levels
-Buying the most expensive armours for sexy looking Dwarven RPData analysis, confident user of Microsoft Excel
-Convincing forum-users that we're the good guys so that we get a rosterPR Experience
-Making sure faction-members don't quit when we get spawn rapedAssures high team morale to ensure the continuing effectiveness of the team
-Telling someone else to sort out the trade cos i don't like itDelegation of tasks
-Being 'Kesh' in TeamSpeak and performing pre-battle prayersLeadership
I like to pretend my brain has benefited in some small way from years of attempting to strategize and coordinate shit.
Closed beta has been running for at least half a year without interruptions before a short pause before open beta. Yeah there have been a few weekend only events as well but some people have had uninterrupted access to the game for quite some time now.