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Originally Posted by JHikka
Sure, but video games are something that (almost) all of us have experience doing, so I guess the comparison would be seeing the absolute best at their craft able to do something that most other people can't. Do you think more kids today play video games or run around on fields, and can therefore associate themselves with one activity more than the other?
Golf is always a great comparator because there isn't much athleticism to it aside from shoulder and upper-body training, but people don't usually run around often saying golf isn't a sport. Those kids sitting at their computers can't be athletes but golfers seem to get a pass, as do motorsports athletes.
Most eSports are team events. Teams of four, five, whatever.
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I really hope that most kids still play sports. It would be a pretty big failing of our society if we now let our kids play sports virtually as a substitute for actual physical activity. Likewise, it seems to me that there is still a big difference between being part of a soccer team or a hockey team, and sitting around with 4 or 5 other guys playing video games.
I actually put golf more in the category of an activity requiring physical skill than a sport. To me there is still a big difference between watching people actually do something and watching people virtually do things. But to each their own.
But we digress.
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