Video Games As A Sport Essay

Video Games as a Sport

Video games are a sport; they have the potential to rival if not dominate traditional sports in viewership alone on a professional level, and they challenge their players to the same extent as conventional sports. E-sports exist and are defined as such; the competitive play of video games as a commercial spectator sport. Yet despite this fact, many still foolishly believe it to be a farce, a sham, or even a mockery of so called actual sports like baseball, football, and soccer. These vacuous individuals are often, but not always, of the older generations often dismissing e-sports as the fatuous creation of the youth, but they are attached to their ancient ways of thinking, shackled by tradition. The definition of sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Although not quite as old as the great American pastime known as baseball, video games should still fall within the purview of this definition.

Take football as another example, despite requiring a greater amount of physical exertion it also requires a certain amount of mental exertion as well, despite not being focused on as much as chess, there are strategies to be followed and mind games to be played in the form of juking, or moving in a zigzag fashion, to dodge the enemy. The exertion of body or mind is only a part of the definition of sport, however, the competition is done for the entertainment of others, an audience, so that it may be enjoyed as a display of skill and