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>artificial esports like starcraft 2 So chess isnt a sport?
by drharby 9y ago
>artificial esports like starcraft 2
So chess isnt a sport?
- xyzzyz 9y agoIt's definitely not popular as a spectator sport.
- everdev 9y agoIt definitely was with chess competitions broadcast live on TV.
- IntronExon 9y agoIt’s a sport in the same way that a tomato is a vegetable; by some definitions it is, by others it isn’t. What annoys me is that videogames have a chance to be themselves without glomming onto “sports” like chess and other games. Chess doesn’t need to be called a sport to be worthwhile and respectable, and neither do videogames. For the sake of money and “mindshare” though? Chess and Starcraft are sports, and tomatoes are veggies.
- drharby 9y agoTheres a set of defined rules where outcome is exclusively impacted by the participants alone, no chance. The better player wins. It is a sport
- IntronExon 9y agohttps://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sport https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sport You seem to have invented criteria with meaning to you, but that’s all. Then again, people have decided that tomatoes are vegetables, and that’s fine I guess. Mostly though it just seems that “sport” has a certain cache and “not a sport” is often used in a derogatory manner, which is a shame. A lot of people seem to have accepted the notion that the only skillful, valuable forms of competition are sports, and their language reflects that. ESPN has a much simpler definition based on a, “can we make some money here?” test. For me? I’m not a fan of most popular sports, but I do love games. I don’t see the need to butcher the language for the sake of broad acceptance, or a buck.