On November 04 2013 22:04 Osmoses wrote:
From the start everyone just agreed that sports meant hard physical work, and that an athlete was a practitioner of said hard work. There is a variance of course, of hard work vs technique/skill between different sports, but personally I'd draw the line where you no longer need strong muscles to compete.

The fact that the term "e-sport" caught on has nothing to do with the activity itself, and the participants are certainly not athletes, in the original sense of the word. And why change the meaning of an old word, making it more obtuse and less meaningful in the process, rather than making up a new one?

I think pro-gaming and pro-gamer does the job just fine.

So what about racecar driving? What about Shooting? What about Archery? Curling, Bowling, Darts, horseback riding, fishing. Some of them are olympic. You need to be in a solid physical shape for most of them but you don't need "strong muscles" to compete.

edit: This is totally off-topic and a stupid discussion anyways.

Osmoses

Sweden5302 Posts

November 04 2013 13:18 GMT

#4782

Yeah I agree, it's a stupid discussion, I just laid out my personal feelings :p

And like George Carlin said, none of those are actually sports. They're games, or activities.

Dandel Ion

Austria17960 Posts

November 04 2013 13:52 GMT

#4783

The problem is that saying "X is not a sport" in the meaning of "X is not a valid competition" which is dumb

everything and nothing can be a competition

doesnt mean it has to be a sport.

UmberBane

Germany5450 Posts

November 04 2013 14:10 GMT

#4784

God damnit this discussion again?

Competitive gaming isn't a sport, but it's e-sport. That's why there is a new term. Same as cuesports or dartsports. No biggie, guys. The competition is like sports, the physical part not.

That bird is flown anyway. There is no "non-sport" scene in anything that I could think of right now that has such a sports-like infrastructure with teams, coaches, analysts, big sponsors etc. as e-sports has. Maybe motorsports, but that again speaks somewhat to the point, because that's another example where you use a modified "something-sport" term for it.

(my opinion)

UmberBane

Germany5450 Posts

November 04 2013 14:13 GMT

#4785

The TSM Bjergsen hype is getting unbearable

Osmoses

Sweden5302 Posts

November 04 2013 14:30 GMT

#4786

Here are some images to lay the sports-discussion to rest:

Nos-

Canada12016 Posts

November 04 2013 15:00 GMT

#4787

Because these are a bunch of nerds that's why osmoses, they're just pressing buttons really fast. Howard can probably be a pro-gamer, he said so himself!

Ketara

United States15065 Posts

November 04 2013 15:12 GMT

#4788

On November 04 2013 23:13 UmberBane wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOF6yyQcgzQ&feature=share

The TSM Bjergsen hype is getting unbearable

I'm not sure that that was such an amazing play and not just Thresh missing a hook and Syndra doing what Syndra does to half health people.

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

November 05 2013 02:18 GMT

#4789

Djagulingu

Germany3605 Posts

November 05 2013 09:10 GMT

#4790

On November 04 2013 23:13 UmberBane wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOF6yyQcgzQ&feature=share

The TSM Bjergsen hype is getting unbearable

TSM now has a midlaner that is actually competent and not insanely antipathic. Hype is inevitable.

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

November 05 2013 22:41 GMT

#4791

I can dig it
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Nos-

Canada12016 Posts

November 05 2013 23:53 GMT

#4792

ezreal straight up looks like rikku

sylverfyre

United States8298 Posts

November 06 2013 03:18 GMT

#4793

On November 04 2013 23:13 UmberBane wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOF6yyQcgzQ&feature=share

The TSM Bjergsen hype is getting unbearable

He had 3 health pots in his inventory there, one could have been ticking for literally that entire fight and he would have lived easily. Hypehypehype hes so good on another level.

I'm pretty excited about him joining TSM too, but TSM fanboism has always annoyed me a little.

UmberBane

Germany5450 Posts

November 06 2013 06:07 GMT

#4794

Yup, me too.

red_

United States8474 Posts

November 06 2013 17:46 GMT

#4795

On November 06 2013 12:18 sylverfyre wrote:

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But he did live, and saved the health pot. That's 35g that he has that you wouldn't!