Esports is Real Sports | Anthony Betrus | TEDxSUNYPotsdam

[lbotturi]

That's really good point, and well documented! Even more as the Tony Betrus, the speaker, is a real athlete also when it comes to "traditional" sports.
One more reason why esports are sports: not everyone is good at it: it takes both talent and training.

[pokearchie]

I like how the first thing i notice is claptrap from borderlands on his shirt

[nervz]

Corona only further proves why esports are becoming more and more mainstream

[kydop]

I am a Potsdam alumni and this is great news, being a video game fan! Good luck!

[SeanMcGloon]

Really well said. I have had this argument and was not able to really impress upon my friends the difficulty and stamina involved in high level gaming (the heart rate especially makes me realize why I keep getting less tired as I game before bed...probably need to change that habit lol.)

[Tech_Nolyze]

Hmmm, i wonder why this video doesnt has alot of views, people need to see this more

[RyanJWassink]

Great talk!


This idea took me a while to warm up to. Not because I disagree with the talk, but because I wonder where competitive .SWF programming was 18 years ago. Or competitive firewood splitting and stacking when I was in high school. Thinking this way, when "I was in my prime" I could've been considered one heck of an athlete... yet I've never considered myself an athlete at all, so the idea that gaming can be a sport was pretty far-fetched. I did come around, though.

Recently one of my schools connected to a professor from SUNY Canton to hear about video game design. Seems that there is a lot of momentum in the North Country when it comes to gaming. Is there a regional initiative or just coincidence?

[bbones]

It’s sports entertainment at the end of the day. The orgs have way more control then the leagues they play in is the first problem.

[jahajesper]

about viewership you should use worldwide for every sport when measuring

[julianschober]

Does anybody have access to the source of the referenced article "Science shows that eSports professionals are real athletes" - i'd need it for a presentation! Thanks!

[nqgkowu]

In my opinion, everyone defines "sport" in a different way. Some people consider sports as a competition in general (both mental and physical) and others define it as physical activity and possibly also as a competition based on their definition. In my point of view sports should be separated into mental- and physical/traditional sports. But tbh i think, if somebody tells you he does sports you probably wouldn´t think about gaming or similar activities. But no matter if it´s a sport or not, Esports should be respected, of course, because to become a Pro-Gamer it also requires a lot of discipline, motivation and ambition. Although I don´t really recognize Esports as a real sport, I respect it.

[beans]

Tbh, the only reason why people like this vid because it agrees with them

[xstk]

he should've showed actual esport games

[tohuiii]

The fact that athletes like himself and even the Kun Aguero now considers them a sport but the media just refuses to accept it...
Why does this have such few views?

[julienwallner]

The best thing about esport is, that everybody can be a professional esports player. Even if you only have a phone you can play hundreds of games with tournaments and organisations :)

[geokim]

There are so many boomers in this comment section refusing to accept esports as a sport, but if you keep resisting change nothing will ever happen and everything will stay the same, never evolving. We progress as a species by making steps and developments. Stop trying to hold on to the past and let go to the future.

[magicyo-yo]

The stats need checking desperately - the viewership figures for example are more than double and some of them are just facetious.

[kukki]

Eventually, as our technology in this world progresses, esports will dominate physical sports and eventually make physical sports as well in the form of robots or people using technologies as well to boost their physical attibutes. Physical sports may be tweaked.. but hey, wouldn't that be more cool. Same as how our modern basketball today have tweaked rules from the past. Before it was just about having a good pass and shooting well.. now we have crossovers and techniques.

[noble]

this proves so many points. who said that sports have to be physical?? chess is a sport. math competitions are sports. they use brainpower instead of physical skill. why is e-sports any different??

[anon]

if chess is a sport, then overall gaming too.