Esports

[I_royalty_I]

The games are just as exciting as sports games. Someone gets tackled in football, someone kills another guy in the game, etc, it's all the same thing. The Buffalo Wild Wings here plays tournaments and sells as just as much as their sporting events. MLG (Major League Gaming) just had a huge esports convention here and the place was nuts. I hate sports, but I cheer the shit out of e-sports, it's something we gamers can get into.

LOLOL WHATTTTTTT
Are you serious right now?!

I mean, I like to play video games, but I don't know if I can respect somebody that tells me they are a pro video game player. I don't know, that's just me. Granted, I think pro athletes are overpaid, but that's way more exciting. It's actual action, something you can get into and play yourself.

I would believe that a convention would be packed, but was it free? idgi.
I look at video games at something to do for fun, a hobby. I don't see them as a profession or anything like that. I definitely don't see it as something we should give visas for... but I'm not the least it surprised that the US would.

[Kylae]

No, it wasn't free, it was $30 or $50 to get in and people came from all over the world to go. Just because you're living in the olden days doesn't mean the rest of the world is. Stuff like Starcraft has been e-sporting for years, League is fairly recent in the time line but extremely vocal so it's getting a lot more show. I live in the hub of esports gaming, lol.

[grrrawr]

I mean, I like to play video games, but I don't know if I can respect somebody that tells me they are a pro video game player. I don't know, that's just me. Granted, I think pro athletes are overpaid, but that's way more exciting. It's actual action, something you can get into and play yourself.

Just because YOU don't think it's exciting, doesn't mean millions of other people don't. It works both ways.

[I_royalty_I]

Just because YOU don't think it's exciting, doesn't mean millions of other people don't. It works both ways.

That's why I said that's my opinion at least lol.
Yall are entitled to your own too

Feel free to disagree with me, I just can't see it selling out arenas and stuff!

[Magikarp]

What I hate about what people say about this is that "oh it's just games. Every one can do it"

BUT THATS NOT TRUE!

Yea if you play call of duty for a while, yea you can get 5-10 kills but you'll have like 10-20 deaths. Everyone can do that. Actual good people has the most kill in that match and the fewest/no death in the whole game. That takes skill and intelligence.

Even in league, yea you can run and kill people but your prolly gonna get killed instantly after that.

What makes you good is your level if intelligence. How well you can predict others movement the most efficiently while looking out for your other team members. It's not easy at all. But people who play in E-sports can pull it off. They have the mental ability to coordinate attacks and such. That's hat makes them athletes

[Raj]

@(you need an account to see links) how do you define an athlete though? Being an athlete is both mental and physical. These guys, as you say, got the mental aspect of it down but there is absolutely no physicality in what they do. That's the barrier between sports and "e sports".

[Allegra]

You cannot compare the amount of dedication and mental/physical effort that athletes put into training and preparation, to someone who is obsessed with a video game. It's absolutely ridiculous.

[I_royalty_I]

You cannot compare the amount of dedication and mental/physical effort that athletes put into training and preparation, to someone who is obsessed with a video game. It's absolutely ridiculous.

That's true, that's another side of it that I didn't think of either. Not only the training, but the diet and workouts you have to put into the sport when you are an athlete.

Like, when I playing basketball, football, or whatever else, I come home tired from a hard workout/day. Then I'll go in the basement and play xbox to chill and relax. I guess I look at video games differently, I see them as something fun to do, not something super serious

[katix]

I think its awesome they are doing this. As a gamer all my life (Everquest 1&2, Starwars, Dota, League, WoW, Aion, GW2, etc, etc) I think they are finally catching up with the times. I am sorry but I've always found all sports the most boring thing ever. I hated my life and wanted to die every time I had to watch something like football. However, I enjoy watching pro-gamers. I love League tournaments. (Go TSM!) That being said I also agree its kinda shitty to mush physical sports with gaming sports but i would treat it just as equal as say the NFL and believe its pretty sweet they are giving visas and stuff. ^_^


Also video games can become extremely serious. In my old Guild in WoW , it started becoming a job to be in a hard core raid group. Gotta be strictly on time, few to no absences, etc, etc. Same with League if you want a 5v5 team . Still fun as hell and i love the thrill of being number 1 on dps charts and stuff. Anyway, can be just as serious as any other sport you put time in.

[Jay]

Sports = physical and mental prowress

I dont see why league can't be compared as a sport