Why Is Egaming Important As A Sport?

Egaming has boosted in popularity over the last couple years. In 2013, 8.5 million people streamed one of the most popular egames championship. That totally eclipses the amount of people who stream Super Bowl XLVII who brought in only about 3 million people who streamed it, but why is egaming not getting any recognition as a sport. A sport is just not something that requires the use of physical energy and just pure strength but it is much more than that. A sport may need the use of physicality but not always. It mostly is a mental game, out thinking your opponent to beat them. Most sports need coordination and precision with in a split instant or a fatal error could be made. One thing that is generally accepted and is accurate is that sports require an enormous amount of skill and team coordination. Another term that usually divides egaming from sports is athlete. An athlete is someone who uses physical or mental skills to perform an activity. An Athlete is just not a physical freak of nature, but to be successful, most of the time, they must be smart. It goes back to …show more content…
The athletes of common sports train about half the time that athletes of egame sports train. Both sports require insane amounts of time to perfect strategies and make sure that all of the players are on the same page. Team coordination is probably the most important part of the sport, no matter what sport it is. If the coach calls out a certain play take basketball for instance, and just one guy forgot the play or just one part than that throws off that whole play for the whole team and will more likely than not end with a turnover. It is just as important in egaming. If one player starts going into other lanes when he has another job or just is not doing that job then the whole match is jeopardized just by one person. The coordination and training is what makes an athlete who they