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News Games to be classified as a sport?

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  1. Sinner666

    Sinner666 What's a Dremel?

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    Well monopoly and other games that involve dice and/or playing cards lean more to games of chance where chess is more strategy.
     
  2. specofdust

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    For gods sake, just no. Chess isn't a sport. Just because something is important and competitive doesn't make it a sport. Sports should take physical effort, be RL, and be sporting. Online gaming is none of those, and definately should never ever be classed as a sport.

    I love gaming as much as the next person, but it's not sport, and to name it is as such is just gonna annoy the hell out of anyone who does actual sport, and people who think like me.
     
  3. Preti9cboi

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    I believe video games is a sport but i don't see it being widely accepted any time soon. But I can guarantee you that it will become a sport in the future. It will probably take 5 years or even 20 years, but it will happen. As technology becomes more advance, such as the Wii-mote, games will become much more virtual and physical at the same time. Then I am positive Video Games will be accepted as a sport.
     
  4. Sinner666

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    I, personally, was not saying Chess is a sport. I was just making the deliniation between games based more on chance, such as Monopoly and poler, and Chess.
     
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    Valid point about the chance element, but chance is an element in every game or sport. In track and field, a gust of wind could effect the trajectory of a javeline. A runner could trip and fall just meters from the finish line. On the other hand, there is more strategy to Monopoly than people realize. given the probability of rolling certain numbers, certain property/hotel combinations are wiser investments than others, and certain spaces are landed on more than others. Strategy is a major element to poker as well; all you have to do is look at the number of people that fold with winning hands.

    -monkey
     
  6. Sinner666

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    All true. In every game there is an element of strategy.
     
  7. Preti9cboi

    Preti9cboi What's a Dremel?

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    What about weight lifting? Not much thinking goes into that.
     
  8. Sinner666

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    It maxes out the physical element of "sport". The mental element goes to the drive and mind over matter.

    It takes quite a bit of drive and self-control to compete in weight lifting.
     
  9. Preti9cboi

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    Willpower has nothing to do with strategy.
     
  10. Sinner666

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    The mental element of sport isn't always strategy. A lot of the mental element of sport is the sheer will to succed.

    Will we have to go through everything currently accepted as a sport and nit pick out the points that make it a sport? Is that truely necessary?
     
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    So what makes a Sport different from a Video Game being called a sport? Video games contains all the elements needed to be considered a sport and in some cases, even more.
     
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    Video games like the one BIG thing that deliniates tham from sports and thats: real life. You can not play Quake 4 or Warcraft 3 in real life.
     
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    Preti9cboi What's a Dremel?

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    What do you call tournments? Fake life?
     
  14. Nature

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    Cheese...
     
  15. Sinner666

    Sinner666 What's a Dremel?

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    Do I honestly have to argue that point? Are you really going to make me deliniate between the game and the physical people who play the game and the space in which they occupy to play the game? Is that really necessary?
     
  16. Preti9cboi

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    No you don't because it's the same thing. :D

    People physically go to tournments.
     
  17. Sinner666

    Sinner666 What's a Dremel?

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    *shakes head*

    Do you have a learning disability? Or just a failed idea of what logic is?
     
  18. Preti9cboi

    Preti9cboi What's a Dremel?

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    You're just not use to change and your arguments are all flawed so it's understandable that you must resort to name calling.
     
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    well mental games like chess, that stress the brain more than the body are kept out of the olympics as they arnt considered sports, they have their own tournaments tho, as does gaming, personaly i think gaming falls under the same lable as chess.

    gaming has plenty of tournaments and people get rich from it and alot of people aspire to be professional gamers now, so whats the problem with it?:p its a mental sport :D

    just because its virtual physical exertion doesnt mean it can be considered a sport, i dont really mind if its called a sport but it wont ever be in the olympics as its not what the olympics is about. remember, naked men wresteling?^^ its all very homoerotic. :hehe:
     
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