I'm getting quite sick of seeing an infinite amount of the spelling of esports. So far I've seen
esports
Esports
eSports
e-Sports
ESPORTS
ESports
E-sports
e-sports

This is getting quite silly. Can we please find one way of saying it and keep it? esports seems to be the proper one because its actually grammatically correct. But we need to find a standard, as seeing 10 in common usage gets quite annoying.

KhAmun

United States1005 Posts

March 30 2012 05:17 GMT

So many different spellings of eSports is ruining ESPORTS.

I guess I'll give a serious answer.
I don't think it matters, it might annoy certain people but the fact is there isn't a golden standard because it's still sort of a vague concept.
Wait for it to grow and get more hashed before expecting a common, universal spelling.

mizU

United States12125 Posts

March 30 2012 05:19 GMT

It's spelled all the same...

What's the problem?

Artifice

United States523 Posts

March 30 2012 05:20 GMT

ESPORTS IS BEST ESPORTS

Why does ESPORTS get underlined in red, who wrote this fucking dictionary?

divito

Canada1213 Posts

March 30 2012 05:22 GMT

Personally, I prefer "eSports." Grammatically for professional publications, most go with "e-sports" unless starting a sentence. There are the odd ones that use "eSports," but it's hit or miss and I've never really seen anyone use the rest of the ones you put in here.

Antimatterz

United States1010 Posts

March 30 2012 05:22 GMT

FOR ESPORTS!

EienShinwa

United States655 Posts

March 30 2012 05:23 GMT

Holy hell, someone OCD?

Randomaccount#77123

United States5003 Posts

March 30 2012 05:26 GMT

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Netsky

Australia1155 Posts

March 30 2012 05:27 GMT

I think the OP is the same guy that called in at the end of the last Live on Three and was very upset that djWHEAT was wearing jeans at MLG.

Those fucking kids and their dubstep. Jesus christ what is the world coming to.

oBlade

United States5759 Posts

March 30 2012 05:27 GMT

#10

This blog is just meta-esports grammarcrafting.

Syrupjuice

United States173 Posts

March 30 2012 05:28 GMT

#11

Personally, I prefer eSports, however, e-sports would probably be the most 'correct.' I just like the way 'eSports' looks, as opposed to having a lot of capitol letters. It makes it look like an acronym if everything is in caps. Also, the name could act similarly to the way a lot of the apple products title themselves, iPods, iPads, iHome, etc. Yes, those are name brand products and eSports is more of a category, but the word could be approached the same way within publications.

TBone-

United States2309 Posts

March 30 2012 05:29 GMT

#12

On March 30 2012 14:26 Barrin wrote:
ya i donno, can never go wrong with ESPORTS though

But when I read that to me its like someone is screaming ESPORTS at me.

Randomaccount#77123

United States5003 Posts

March 30 2012 05:31 GMT

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Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

March 30 2012 05:31 GMT

#14

eSpOrTs

mizU

United States12125 Posts

March 30 2012 05:33 GMT

#15

iSports best maybe

slam

United States923 Posts

March 30 2012 05:33 GMT

#16

Even more important than that is the pronunciation. The correct way being "eh-sports" of course.

CursOr

United States6335 Posts

March 30 2012 05:41 GMT

#17

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

This has a good listing of the various spellings of email, and how they are/were used. Esports is basically the same thing, to distinguish it from regular sports, as email from regular mail...

that being said, I've always liked eSports. I don't know why, it looks like a cool brand name or something. The only variance would be if, it is at the beginning of a sentence, I would do Esports. So the capitalization isn't fuxord.

All caps does have a pretty awesome look to it though.

CakeSauc3

United States1437 Posts

March 30 2012 05:51 GMT

#18

Haha, I think I've used like half of those spellings for it. I prefer just leaving it as esports or Esports, but it doesn't really matter. Esports is awesome, and so is every way you can spell it :D

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

March 30 2012 05:55 GMT

#19

I use e-Sports because it is what seems to be the official denomination, and also used by KeSPA.