ESports’ inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.
ESports’ inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.
And that the stats are off. Probably they count mobile games as “gaming”. Candycrush isn’t gaming. And honestly, ESports is a euphemism. It isn’t sports.
What qualifies an activity to be classified as sport? Chess is a sport, so physical activity is not a requirement
In that I’m consistent: chess isn’t a sport either. Sure, you feel wrecked after hours of concentration, but if that’s the only criteria, then office jobs would be sport. If it has to be a game, then office politics could be treated as a game with rules and it would still be a sport.
So no, it has to have physical activity and the physical activity has to be significant enough to tire out muscles. Lifting a beer for a few minutes would be more of a sport than esports, chess or anything else majorly mental. The brain isn’t a muscle.
The thing is chess IS a sport, that’s the fact, like it or not.
It’s not a fact. Gravity is fact. Chess being declared a sport by a bunch of old men, is widely accepted opinion.
Thank for us you are here, oh! Holder of the absolute truth
Lol, I state that seeing chess as a sport is relative, and all you read is “he holds the absolute truth”. Quite ironic.
fact: a piece of information presented as having objective reality
Chess has tournament, leagues, championships, federation and all that like other sports and is accepted by the society (except for you, it seems) as an sport, so the objective reality is chess is a sport. That’s the reality you live in, like it or not.