Electronic sports

That 's right, these tournaments often pull a much larger than sports competitions such as the World Series, the Super Bowl, and the NBA Finals, often competing for prize pools of millions of dollars. Little to everyone 's knowledge, this is also an industry that has existed since the 1970s and has silently been on the rise through decades. This boasting industry that has been exploding within the past several years is the eSports industry. There are many, many people, especially in today 's society, that will argue that video games are nothing but a waste of time, especially with today 's battle of finding a good, stable career. In today 's day and age, people are putting in more time to video games than ever, due to the fact that it is possible to make a career out of it. The eSports industry is a very important…

games to cause testosterone responses similar to those caused by physical competition (Oxford et al. 2009). Individuals who made the most effort towards their team’s victory faced an immediate increase in testosterone after the match, whereas the losing team’s most active team member faced a delay in testosterone increase (Oxford et al. 2009). Short term aggressive behavior is more likely to be impacted by the competitiveness of video games and not based on the violence (Adachi 2011). During an…

eSports v. Sports: Does Electronic Gaming Deserve to be Considered a Sport? “What type of competitor practices for 10 hours a day, lives in a team house surrounded by other professional players, and is supported by coaches, managers, and corporate endorsements? Answer: professional video gamers.” (Li) If the first thought that popped into your mind was a sports player, you were half right. If you guessed “eSports player”, you were definitely correct. “eSports” is an invented term that means…

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…

teams. What could they be going to see you ask? Only what can be arguably seen as the largest e-sport event of the year, the League of Legends World Championship finals. E-sports have finally come to a point where they’re not something to be taken lightly or scoffed at the concept of. The term e-sport refers to a competitive video game with a multiplayer element, in which more often than not, two teams comprised of professional gamers are pitted against one another for the viewing pleasure of…

Sports have been known as physical activities such as football, soccer, hockey, and baseball. Gaming has been around for quite a while now, and now people are trying to turn it into a sport. Competitions are held worldwide between professional gamers and have become a career for many. Anything that is requires skill and is competitive should be considered a sport. Organizations have been created with different teams for different games and have acquired sponsors to support them. Gaming should be…

Esports is a sport! The viewership’s, prize money and mental stress that Esports athletes have to go through are comparable to that of a regular sport athlete. It is not shocking that Esports athletes are very determined and focused people, given that there is so much on the line. Esports has pretty much turned into a full on sport with the addition of Esports commentators Not only that they are also treated similarly to that of a regular sports athlete, given a coaching staff and many other…

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…

Who knows what qualities something must have to be called a sport? Do we have a list of clearly defined points that are used to judge an activity to know if it is or isn’t a sport? Well I bring this up due to the controversial topic of “Esports aren’t really a sport” and how I disagree with this popular viewpoint. Esports have many traits that are found in other socially accepted sport such as football when a large group is required to work in a coordinated fashion under ample amounts of stress…

An issue that is hotly debated is SPORTS and weather it’s a good thing for children to play sports or not. It’s clear that children shouldn’t play sports because of one, injuries, two, too much pressure, and three, un-sportsman like behavior. One reason children shouldn’t play sports is injuries, they are becoming a lot more common and one injury happens every twenty five seconds, did you know that, “kids 10 to 14 are at the highest risk for head injuries and males accounted for 70% of head…