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bazemk1979:

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

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its sport all right, sitting on your ass all day long, eating doritos and drinking soda.

demik:

--- Quote from: hazeluff on Mon, 30 September 2013, 22:50:09 ---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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this is the same olympic committee that tried to get rid of wrestling. i wouldn't be surprised if some events are just there because of tradition.


--- Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 30 September 2013, 22:44:46 ---
--- Quote from: demik on Sat, 28 September 2013, 20:45:40 ---"sports"

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What are they?

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competitive gaming

baldgye:

--- Quote from: noisyturtle on Mon, 30 September 2013, 20:02:22 ---"pro-gamers are playing a 'sport' but they aren't athletes"

This about sums it up. gotta respect the skills, but I can't put it on the same level as athletes who live and breath their sport and sculpt their bodies and regimes around it.

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Not all that accurate though is it

GMK_Andy:

--- Quote from: Dnesamanj on Thu, 22 January 2026, 06:36:56 ---Thanks for  information

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I saw Demik and Baldguy and thought the ol' gang was back in town - then I realized this was just necro'd after more than a decade.  :-X

MrNeppy:
That article made me tired just reading it. All that structure and pressure would've killed the fun for me back in the day.

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