Gaming is as much a sport as Curling is.

Why are people referring to gamers as athletes, they don't fall under the definition of it do they:

"a person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical exercise."

simple

What irritates me is when pro players "retire" Like come on is your job that hard you got to retire?

lRawzz wrote What irritates me is when pro players "retire" Like come on is your job that hard you got to retire?

Well you can't play a game forever, so technically it is retiring, but it is annoying when they say that.

Muddyy96 wrote

DNF wrote Always bugged me this, as for "building up a sweat" playing games, thats a mental problem not an effect of physical activity, just like people sweat when they are nervous. In fact when I had an xbox, I used to physically sweat when I was playing a really good team and we were winning, was horrible haha.

Nothing about gaming is a sport, its fact haha, thats why they added the "e" before.

Do you even know what the "e" means? I dont see whats a problem with the term eSport, you can get a visa in some countries for eSport, its classed as a job by some governments

I dont think you realise how big eSports are now

So they get a job playing video games right? That consists of absolutely no physical activity (which FYI is what a sport is, physical activity) except when you have to take a piss in 10 seconds because your game is about to start.

You have no idea what a sport really is. Which is what Axe is trying to get his point across.

eSports do take skill to play, but I'm going to be honest here:

Paying a 90 minute match of football (UK) requires endurance, fitness, logic, maths, problem solving, friendship, team work, sportsmanship, rivalry due to placement, the list for that example is endless.

Playing a 30 minute, 3 game session of eSports does not require fitness, maths, friendship, sportsmanship etc, hence taking out what I see deemed mainly as a sport.

I agree with you axe, however I do respect people who are fans of eSport because I am one myself during the 6-month period of waitin for my new job, I played BLOPS2 competitevley and loved every minute of it, but not for one second did I classify it as a sport, I classified it as MLG which is completely different.

Hilarious wrote eSports do take skill to play, but I'm going to be honest here:

Paying a 90 minute match of football (UK) requires endurance, fitness, logic, maths, problem solving, friendship, team work, sportsmanship, rivalry due to placement, the list for that example is endless.

Playing a 30 minute, 3 game session of eSports does not require fitness, maths, friendship, sportsmanship etc, hence taking out what I see deemed mainly as a sport.

I agree with you axe, however I do respect people who are fans of eSport because I am one myself during the 6-month period of waitin for my new job, I played BLOPS2 competitevley and loved every minute of it, but not for one second did I classify it as a sport, I classified it as MLG which is completely different.

You classified it as thus due to the website you were playing it on classified it as such.
Hence the "G" - GAMING

I have to disagree as this does not bother me. What would you suggest that they actually call it?