Video Games
Should video gaming be capable to be a sport?
Who Am I?
Essential Question
I choose this question, because I really enjoy playing video games, and also there are some high school and college where they allow student play video game, and also construed it as a sport or a club for their school. Also Student can go and play for a Pro-team of the game which they are playing, or even get a scholarship for college just playing a video game.
Explanation of Topic
Over time video games have been getting popular and also a lot of people have been playing video games. Now people been having tournament and also make Pro Team’s for Video Games. Video Games like “League of Legend” and “HeartStone”, “Counter Strike” and even “Dote”. All of these games had been getting popular and people are being Pro-Player playing just video game and also getting a lot of money too. In some of the big tournament in each game, they play against around the word player and also earn lot of money. Also there had been some high schools and also colleges that allow and also making playing video games a sport and also a club too. Also there are some colleges that you can get scholarship from just playing video games and colleges have their own league tournament depend on their game they are playing. Almost all the game that are getting popular are played on PC.
I hope to gain from this research that Video Gaming can be capable to be a sport and How is E-sport different form other Sport stuff, and hear people beliefs and differences about their thoughts on video games.I hope that other people understand what is E-sport, and Video games is not all about a nerd and lazy peoples playing video game all night and never go outside, it's more then that, with E-sport.
What is E-Sport
One Game of E-sport is BIG
E-Sport Vs Sport
Strategy
E-Sport---Games such as League of Legends and StarCraft are incredibly complicated and constantly evolving. Teams spend a huge amount of time working on strategy, which will usually be the difference between victory and defeat.
Sport--- Sports people must be aware of a myriad of options at all times, while also being intimate with an opponent’s strengths and weaknesses
Fitness
Sport-- Most have very low body fat and highly developed muscles. They are unusually strong and quick, while also possessing tremendous stamina.
Reaction Time
Sport--This requires exceptional hand-eye co-ordination, speed of thought, vision and spatial awareness, especially in a team environment.
The Other Hand
Video Game is not a Sport
Declares E-Sports 'Not A Sport'. Due to it’s not a sport because it’s a competition just for fun and not really big, for example Chess is a competition and Checkers is a competition, but they are "interested" in "real sports". Just pushing a keyboard keys, and seat all day on a chair looking at a screen for half the day is not a sport. But yet if you go to the ESPN website there a place for E-sport, but its not big and popular like the NBA new or football and other sport.
Reflcetion
Sources
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjTnukgSu8
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/sports/grooming-the-champions-of-the-keyboard.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zygq2hv
- http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-video-gaming-be-considered-a-sport
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/09/07/espn-boss-declares-esports-not-a-sport/#2715e4857a0b3e90244855a8