This should be framed with a different question: “Are videogames sports?” The answer to that question is “No, videogames are not sports, they are esports.” People seem to forget that “esports” is already the answer to that question, so reusing that term to question if esports are sports is superfluous. The term was…

Well, why does this question even exist? They aren’t sports because the “e” modifier at the beginning is exactly that, a modifier to the word that follows it. It would be like asking “does email count as mail??” The answer to that question is of course yes, it is an electronic version of mail. In that vein, esports…