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demik:
Bingo. Glorifying sitting on your ass pressing keys doesn't make you an athlete. Just call it professional competitive gaming.

Dubsgalore:
Calling eSports actual sports or the players 'athletic' is laughable  :)) :))
it's a video game, not a sport

vun:

--- Quote from: Dubsgalore on Mon, 30 September 2013, 20:09:34 ---Calling eSports actual sports or the players 'athletic' is laughable  :)) :))
it's a video game, not a sport

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Actually I wouldn't be surprised if we see a change in definition of "sporting" words.
I'm not gonna bother taking a stance atm, I'm just saying that language evolves and dictionaries are only an effort to reflect the language in its current state rather than a rulebook to be followed.
Gonna be interesting to see what happens, because this is something that really needs to be clarified a bit better if they want people to pay attention to the actual competitions rather than going "lol that's not a sport".

rowdy:

--- Quote from: demik on Sat, 28 September 2013, 20:45:40 ---"sports"

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What are they?

hazeluff:
There are a lot of olympic sports that have very minimal physicality. Should we argue that those people aren't athletes either?
e.g: Archery, Shooting, Curling, etc.

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