Objectively it is different. A video game is a simulated environment played by people with no athletic ability nor any real skill whereas real sports are real environments with real consequences played by real people with real talent and real skill

It’s not subjective at all. These gamers are nothing special. They no doubt still live in mom’s basement perfecting their skill of clicking the keyboard better than others. There is no real skill or athletic ability on display here. This is not a sport by any stretch of the imagination.

Sure that's true. People watch sports and really really bored people watch couch jockeys play video games. Real sports require mental and physical conditioning and professional athletes are the best at what they do. Competitive gamers can click or push buttons in a simulated environment, yawn. I can do that. Hell I…

Of course I do. Athletes do this and perform at peak physical capacity. This is why these competitive gamers are not athletes. They are hobbyists.

Clearly you didn’t read my post that you commented on. I did say that this all just memorization and practice. Athletic ability? No! Skill, eh sure, I guess. I’m a gamer and have been for most of my life. There is no way that there is any physical ability required. Practice and trial and error, sure.

Completely agree. Competitive gamer and competitive card player (poker, etc) are in the same camp. There is no athleticism to either of these. A game of skill and chance? Yes.

I agree with you but the nomenclature is correct as it is today. Athletes play sports gamers who play in front of an audience and get paid should be called competitive gamers.

I seriously doubt that. An MMA fighter or a boxer or a pro football player would be much stronger, hence, real athleticism.

And so is the comparison to a real athlete.

Soldiers are athletes as they must be physically fit and elite soldiers compete for their status. Drone pilots have to meet the requirement of a soldier first, right? These so called “professional gamers” are not athletes by any stretch of the imagination. Hell, I manipulate a keyboard very well in a software…

Fun is good. I love video games. These people are not athletes.

Well said. I think e-sports are moronic personally. Watching someone else play a video game makes no sense to be, but to each their own, I guess. I agree with your statement about these competitive players not being athletes. They are as much athletes as chess players or the debate team. Yes, their hobby requires…

Hobbyist is a better term. I agree that professional sports requires a great deal of practice and memorization. However you have to have athletic ability, talent and persistence. Playing a video game is a cool hobby (I'm a huge fan) but it is no sport nor is there any real talent involved in manipulating buttons on a…

Competing in a physical sport requires actual skill, physical ability, practice, memorization, persistence and talent. whereas playing a game (which I greatly enjoy) requires zero of these. There is no comparison. You can’t compare these couch jockeys to the amazing catch that Odell Beckam Jr. caught last year in the…

Bullshit. This is memorization and practice. These people are not athletes or super by any stretch of the imagination.

This is further proof that these selfie sticks are exclusively made for morons.

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None of them do. This is like asking which music sounds the best played over a vehicles factory sound system. This is all you are getting here produced noises played over your in-car speakers. Yay?!? No.

This article should be renamed to “Surprise, sensationalist articles pay the bills!”

You must be a hit at parties!