3 ms·

Correction, it's not the only e-sport that translates well. Much smaller scale but FPV Drone racing is heavily practiced on simulators as well and skillsets tra

Correction, it's not the only e-sport that translates well. Much smaller scale but FPV Drone racing is heavily practiced on simulators as well and skillsets translate to one another pretty well.

dumbfoundded 7y ago
Any sport involving any sort of physical contact is really difficult. The sports without are pretty easy to do while following CDC recommendations: poker, chess, golf, bowling, racing, biking. Sports like track & field are somewhat in the middle but they're just timed. It would be feasible to just have people do these alone in standardized conditions with a single moderator.
- tempestn 7y ago
  Don't you think to be considered a "sport" there needs to be an element of physical aptitude? Poker and chess are both games of skill, but I wouldn't call them sports.
  - yreg 7y ago
    In a this ESPN article on Fabiano Caruana, they noted "In October 2018, Polar, a U.S.-based company that tracks heart rates, monitored chess players during a tournament and found that 21-year-old Russian grandmaster Mikhail Antipov had burned 560 calories in two hours of sitting and playing chess -- or roughly what Roger Federer would burn in an hour of singles tennis." https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#1873%E2%80%931945:_Birth_of_a_sport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#1873%E2%80%931945:_Birth...
    - lobotryas 7y ago
      That doesn’t address OP’s point at all.
  - dumbfoundded 7y ago
    The line is pretty arbitrary. This is an article about e-sports. Play with the semantics if you will.
dmos62 7y ago
It's about being virtually confined to a box that has simplish interactions with the environment. Simulations that fit into this category are race car, tank, air plane, ship (least popular category probably), submarine.

Correction, it's not the only e-sport that translates well. Much smaller scale but FPV Drone racing is heavily practiced on simulators as well and skillsets translate to one another pretty well.

dumbfoundded 7y ago

Any sport involving any sort of physical contact is really difficult. The sports without are pretty easy to do while following CDC recommendations: poker, chess, golf, bowling, racing, biking. Sports like track & field are somewhat in the middle but they're just timed. It would be feasible to just have people do these alone in standardized conditions with a single moderator.

tempestn 7y ago
Don't you think to be considered a "sport" there needs to be an element of physical aptitude? Poker and chess are both games of skill, but I wouldn't call them sports.
- yreg 7y ago
  In a this ESPN article on Fabiano Caruana, they noted "In October 2018, Polar, a U.S.-based company that tracks heart rates, monitored chess players during a tournament and found that 21-year-old Russian grandmaster Mikhail Antipov had burned 560 calories in two hours of sitting and playing chess -- or roughly what Roger Federer would burn in an hour of singles tennis." https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#1873%E2%80%931945:_Birth_of_a_sport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#1873%E2%80%931945:_Birth...
  - lobotryas 7y ago
    That doesn’t address OP’s point at all.
- dumbfoundded 7y ago
  The line is pretty arbitrary. This is an article about e-sports. Play with the semantics if you will.

dmos62 7y ago

It's about being virtually confined to a box that has simplish interactions with the environment. Simulations that fit into this category are race car, tank, air plane, ship (least popular category probably), submarine.