Poll: Are e-sports sports?
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Can you even imagine if the president of ESPN did say that esports are real, though? The way I'm imagining it is him with a baseball cap on backwards, broacasting a special message for his younger fans “sup dawgs, I heard you like esports so I decided to debase myself by pretending that they're the same as real sports; I would do literally anything for a dollar.”
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Can you even imagine if the president of ESPN did say that esports are real, though? The way I'm imagining it is him with a baseball cap on backwards, broacasting a special message for his younger fans “sup dawgs, I heard you like esports so I decided to debase myself by pretending that they're the same as real sports; I would do literally anything for a dollar.”
I'm just going to bold that one letter...not that I really have a point.
But yeah, how would your scenario be different from them showing poker?
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poker
Now there's a "sport" where fat, slob and other such might be an advantage. Also lack personal hygiene. Probably the only time no one wanting to sit within 20 feet of you is useful.
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People have been playing poker for years.
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I can't really think of a professional competitive event where fat and slobbish are the norm.
http://www.majorleagueeating.com/about.php:
Major League Eating is the world body that oversees all professional eating contests.
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I'm okay with e-sports being considered sports as long as LoL, Call of Dudebros 27: Turquoise Ops and a few others are excluded from the running.
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Law is whatever people agree to be law. Movie stars are whoever people agree to be movie stars. Europe is whatever people agree to be Europe. Sports are whatever people agree to be sports. Our world is very arbitrary in many things.
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I can't really think of a professional competitive event where fat and slobbish are the norm.
Bowling seems most likely to me. Possibly billiards or some related game.
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Darts is the stereotypical one
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http://www.majorleagueeating.com/about.php:
>Major League Eating is the world body that oversees all professional eating contests.And yet, the champions of eating contests aren't fatsos.
Chestnut, the defending men’s champion who weighed in at 210 pounds
Defending woman’s champion, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas weighed in at 100 pounds.
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And yet, the champions of eating contests aren't fatsos.
The record-holders listed on the Major League Eating site range from 190 (which might or might not be fat, depending on height, musculature, etc.; I'd be fat at 190) to 400 (which is fat for just about anybody).
> Chestnut, the defending men’s champion who weighed in at 210 pounds
> Defending woman’s champion, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas weighed in at 100 pounds.
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Looking at their rankings page, there are a few fat people there (#6 at 285, #13 at 270, #15 at 240, #21 at 275 and #22, 400 lb record holder) but most of the top spots are thin/athletic looking.
Even some of the record holders are skinny as fuck, and that's not even including the women.
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My favourite quote:
done its best to at least act like a sport, by adding measures such as an anti-doping programme.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30597623
Initially, I was going to disagree, but then I remembered that a century ago or so, the Olympics included poetry and town planning. So, why not videogames?
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Even though I gave up playing multiplayer FPS after I realized I was just playing a sport, I voted not a sport because email is not mail and therefore esports are not sports.
Esports are getting like proper sports though, what with their cheating scandals and players behaving like total douches toward their opponents.
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Depends which sport and which players. I find that a lot of the esports players (at least the ones with YouTube channels) are quite friendly.
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So, why not videogames?
Could we trade the videogame freaks for the gymnastics freaks?
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Esports are getting like proper sports though, what with their cheating scandals and players behaving like total douches toward their opponents.
You find most douches in absolutely not e-sport-ish titles like Call of Duty and Battlefield. Real e-sport titles like Trackmania, Starcraft or Unreal Tournament have relatively low amount of fuckwits.
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Better question - is trolling a sport?
Videogames are fine, but I'd rather see trolling in the Olympics.
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Relevant question: can something be both an art and a sport?
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@created_just_to_disl said:
Relevant question: can something be both an art and a sport?
Rhythmic gymnastics.
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@created_just_to_disl said:
Relevant question: can something be both an art and a sport?
That fund raiser game where you mark off 10x10 squares in a field and let a cow in and if it shits in your square you win a prize.
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That fund raiser game where you mark off 10x10 squares in a field and let a cow in and if it shits in your square you win a prize.
cow chip bingo
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@created_just_to_disl said:
Relevant question: can something be both an art and a sport?
Synchronised swimming?
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Yes: Picking stocks.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Or bring in shitloads of money up front.
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@created_just_to_disl said:
Videogames are fine, but I'd rather see trolling in the Olympics.
Traditional trolling as defined in the Jargon File, or what the media and sheeple
redefinedcall bullying these days?
Or bring in shitloads of money up front.
Quickest way to get a million dollars on the stock-market - start with 10 million
.. or something like that...
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, or what the media and sheeple redefined call bullying these days?
huh... must remember that way of putting it. it's accurate, and ever so slightly cruel....
@accalia likes it!
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Traditional trolling as defined in the Jargon File, or what the media and sheeple redefined call bullying these days?
I'd rather see the kind you do with a boat in order to torture the fish.