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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
why is it even in english? its supposed to be international. it should be some combination of numerous languages, or nifty little symbols like the olympics. something universal. maybe something in Interlingua is necessary.
If you're not sure, just follow everyone else's lead and type it in all capitals. Nothing shows your love for e-sports like typing it in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!!! WOOOOO. I'M SURE IT WILL NEVER GET TIRING TO READ
Well, for starters, capitalization =/= spelling. That's grammar. Unless it's an acronym, words are not all caps in the english language; sorry. Not only that but if you all-caps something it makes it sound like you are yelling at people, everytime I see "ESPORTS" I think of that one meme of the yelling guy.
Since it's not a proper noun either, the correct formatting should be either "e-sports" or "esports". I think the former is more appropriate, otherwise individuals unfamiliar with the term would probably be tempted to read it as "es-port-s".
So, "e-sports" is realistically the only viable correct spelling and formatting.
I don't like ESPORTS cause it seems like shouting or an acronym. I think the best is electronic sports for an editorial or article and e-Sports for regular forum posts and whatnot. I don't think I'll be in the dictionnary soon enough so no official nomenclature for a while
Pointing out flaws in esports is ruining Esports, so stop talking about eSports being bad, for the sake of E-Sports! e-sports is how we come together as gamers, don't ruin e-Sports.