Should Video Games Be A Sport?

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What are the odds of one of the most common hobbies to be broadcasted on live tv to be a sport?There is one thing that most of us enjoy to just do when we're exhausted and when we just get home.Well if you guessed play video games you're correct.There is an average 42% of Americans that play at least 3 hours of video games a week.But that number is not that great for the population of america, so let's try the population of the world.More than 1.2 billion people are playing games worldwide, according to a state of the industry report by Spil Games. Of those, about 700 million play online games. That amounts to 44% of the world's online population, according to ComScore.I would still want video games to be a sport because even though i dont play video games that often i still like them as a sport.Video games are getting more and more tech complicatede they started like this And ended like this

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