Esports Should Be Considered A Sport

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ESports should be considered a competitive sport as it has many similarities with regular sports. Video gamers are very similar to competitive sport players in that they train and think alike. In Video Gaming Should Be Considered a Sport it says, "The [eSport] players have spent countless months training hard in exhausting regimens to make it to the final round...eSport players are put through the same mental and physical situations as professional athletes.". Traditional and eSport players are both put through equally intense training, and games. ESports and traditional sports both have a variety of sports and games and even though they aren't always similar they can still be considered sports. "The world of eSports is composed of a variety

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