Esports competition not sports says sports says ESPN prez

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http://recode.net/2014/09/04/sorry-twitch-espns-skipper-says-esports-not-a-sport/

Can't say I disagree.

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not much to discuss when you have an article of 2 lines

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Poker, Darts, Snooker.

Consider those three games are hosted on espn channels one time or another. Whether or not you can call them "real sports" is as trivial as arguing whether eSports are real sport.

Labels are dumb, don't buy into them.

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It's better than a sport, it's an esport.

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and so is coh2 esport ? if not watitiz ?

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I agree its not sport no doubt, but i dont play this game to be fit. Its important what you expect from a game.

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its like chess, basically.. almost.

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It's just like chess. I played on the chess team (as captain 1st board woot!) in high school. Since we went to competitions and had a largish budget.

It was kind of technicality and kind of not. It's a gray area. But no one really cared either. It was just a label.

I bought vCoH on January 3rd, 2007.
Still missing the days of vCoH 1.71. It had it's issues, like paks sniping 57s, and the strafe didn't work, but overall, it was probably the most balanced time in CoH history.

OF ruined that. CoH 2 is....balanced in a nasty way. Everyone has an equal stockpile of gamebreaking bullshit. USA is full of early game BS while the OKW doesn't get its BS until late game. It's just a question of how badly you exploit the faction's shit and how quickly, after a patch, you discover the gaping holes of bullshit Relic leaves. But either way, it's all BS. The only "BS" in vCoH that was gamechanging was the fast m8 vs a bunker.

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Too many people mistake atheletic activity for sports. Most athletic activites are sports aswell. But far from all sports are athletic activites.
The Competition is just the part of sports where winners are decided and medals handed out.

For me the issue with E-sports is not wether it is a sport or not (many more sports are not atheltic) but rather how it can be institutionalized. Devs have too much power for it to ever be a serious sport.
Balance is too much of an issue, it is impossible to get a fully fair comptetition in which no side could claim to be unfairly treated unless you get a totally symmetrical game.

As I see it E-sports is going to have a hard time getting out of the real of sports entertainment and into proper sports.

This being said many leagues are very strong and still have questionable fariness. Just take any sport that doesn't adhear to WADA regulations. Not a bad bunch to be in.