REAL Sports Team Recruits eSports Player?!

I honestly agree that e-sports are definitely becoming real sports. The only hurdle left to jump is more widespread adoptions of the practice of physical sports teams signing on e-sports players to their rosters.

I still prefer playing soccer than soccer video games

I think it's fair to say that esports are legitimate professional competitions, but my understanding is that a sport is specifically a physical competition (though I may be wrong). Not saying that one is better than the other, but I don't think esports should be called sports.

eports aren't sports, they're esports

When they start adding hologram projections onto Esports tournament games, I think that's when the general public will accept it as a real sport. [Hopes for real life pokemon battles]

if poker championships are aired on ESPN, why not let eSports be considered real at this point.. I played baseball up through college, so I get the argument about needing to have physical requirements to be a sport, but eSports take just as much physical endurance as poker, and much more physical coordination than throwing cards onto a table..

WRC World Rally Championship have a esport league that plays along side the world champ, WRC Monaco was last weekend - http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/september/wrc-5-esp...

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Sports has been a term that I feel has been misused for a while now, I don't think E-Sports does itself any favours by creating the image that they cannot be legitimate unless they're considered a sport either.

I think E-Sports should be categorised with any directly mechanically-aided and single action fine motor skill sports.

So sports should include things like:

• Football
• American Eggball Throwing Football
• Rugby
• Cricket
• Baseball
• Etc.

Any competitive activities that involve multiple varied strenuous movements that can be refined and altered to beat your opponents.

The new classification should include things like:

• Darts
• Any car racing (WRC, NASCAR, Etc.)
• Video Games
• Board Games
• Snooker
• Etc.

Any competitive activities that are directly and substantially mechanically-aided, and/or involve only fine motor skills.

Nothing NEEDS to be a sport to be legitimate, and trying to shoehorn everything into the category undersells both parties. E-Sports needs to ditch the name really, it's in a great position to carve out a new "legitimate" path for things that don't necessarily classify as sports.

There has been a Racing Simulation eSports player, recruited into the Nissan GT Academy, which made his way into real endurance racing. Winning the Bathurst 12h hour 2015, and 2nd 2016.

He is racing along side the best drivers in the world, and bringing a serious challenge to them.

This just shows some Racing Simulations are very good at giving real life trials. iRacing, Gran Turismo, etc. In Australia, iRacing racers are getting trials with V8supercar team, and Endurance teams.

Expect to see more eSports racing drivers, in the professional racing in the near future.

I think the E-sports version of a football player falling over and acting like a lil' bitch is them yelling "lag!" or "hacker" when they die.

Does it take a high level of skill? Is it competitive against other people? Do the players get paid based on level of skill? Are there ridiculous amounts of fans that will show up to watch (in some form)? Then it's a sport.