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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #135 on: December 06, 2015, 04:22:11 pm »
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Everyone has their own I quess. Its not like I care or ever will bother to care about the complexity involving autosports. So yeah, I dont know what im talking about. Same applies to majority of sports. We only see that hard part if we bother to be invested or already know the hardships to reach that level of competitivity.

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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #136 on: December 06, 2015, 06:28:53 pm »
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Well no one's really saying that esports are as physically demanding as real sports anyway. We're talkig about excitement levels, viewer numbers, prize pools. Esports is on a very good way there and has already surpassed many real sports in that regard.

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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #137 on: December 06, 2015, 07:11:58 pm »
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Esports is probably as mentally taxing as any other sport at high skill levels tho.
That might be something we can agree on.
A Starcraft Pr0 certainly has to maintain a similar level of focus and concentration as any race driver, football player.
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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #138 on: December 07, 2015, 11:41:10 am »
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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #139 on: December 07, 2015, 12:12:12 pm »
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Esports is probably as mentally taxing as any other sport at high skill levels tho.
That might be something we can agree on.
A Starcraft Pr0 certainly has to maintain a similar level of focus and concentration as any race driver, football player.

But not any real physical skill as opposed to say a MMA fighter who has to have both. Or a hockey player etc...
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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #140 on: December 07, 2015, 12:18:28 pm »
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But not any real physical skill as opposed to say a MMA fighter who has to have both. Or a hockey player etc...

Was that really necessary to reply with?  :lol:
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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #141 on: December 07, 2015, 12:18:53 pm »
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Playing Dota is probably closer to playing the piano than playing football, yes.
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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #142 on: December 07, 2015, 12:22:26 pm »
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I'd say some esports are more mentally demanding than real sports, but whatever. All these mental/physical taxation comparisons are stupid, since esports and sports are two very different things.

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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #143 on: December 07, 2015, 05:02:28 pm »
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The requirements to meet to play (yes, even "real life" uber dangerous sports are just games) with others and compete shouldnt be the main reference to decide if an activity can be labeled as a sport. A skilled sport is not necessarily a dangerous one, nor should it require physical fitness.

Games are just that, a combat of skill in a particular domain. So if you're looking at it objectively, anything can be a sport as long as it provide fair ground for people to meet and compete to see who is the best. Then if people are interested or not in it is another thing.


Now of course, personally, I'm more interested in real life, physically challenging, life threatening sport... But being a video gamer, I am also naturally going to say that eSports are interesting, especially when you play and understand the game yourself.

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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #144 on: December 07, 2015, 05:58:25 pm »
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How many esports competitors use performance enhancing drugs? That's the real question!

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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #145 on: December 07, 2015, 06:24:46 pm »
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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #146 on: December 07, 2015, 07:25:34 pm »
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I'd rather they were just called competitive games. If they want the big sponsorship money its better to label themselves as sports though. I never thought of chess champions as playing a sport, its just a non-physical game. Card games aren't sports and neither are PC games. If being labelled as a sport helps to make it more popular I'm all for them calling themselves sports tho
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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #147 on: December 08, 2015, 02:21:30 pm »
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/3d7fdz/north_american_professional_csgo_player_admits_we/

That really doesn't surprise me.

I'd be curious about it at major tournaments though rather than in the WoW context. Like Dota for example, LoL and Starcraft. I imagine some drugs must be used in the big events.

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Re: eSports — Soon bigger than real sports?
« Reply #148 on: December 08, 2015, 03:35:38 pm »
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Sad to go that far. I guess they feel they need to take drugs because they have shit sleep/diet, and cant perform at their best.