Thoughts on e-sport?

>>384559636
lmao

more like e-gnore

I don't find watching other people play video games fun

>>384559636

Don't really care if a bunch of faggots want to play video games and pretend that they are contributing to society. Only thing that really infuriates me is that they call it a sport, just fucking have some self respect and call it competitive gaming or whatever else just not a sport.

I don't get how so many people are into it

Just play the damn games yourself. Why do you need to watch ultra-autists do it at breakneck speed?

Is typing a "sport"? Should we televise a championship featuring the top office ladies in the world to see who can type the most words per second?

>>384559749
Considering that esports organisations pay taxes I can't see how they esports and sports differ in terms of their contribution to society.
I mean they both serve the function of allowing advertisers to reach a large audience so they really aren't that different.

>all the industry had to do to get normals to finish off gaming was add sports to the name
Now that this cancer has finally killed gaming what hobby are you guys picking up? For me it's going to be doll collecting.

>>384559705
lol
>>384559786
im stuck at work five nights a week with nothing to do

>>384559786
I learn a lot and it becomes fun if you want to see your country flag on the top.

>>384560532
Except is always some asian cunts that win these things

threads like these always shed some light in how casual /v/ really is.

And i can see the responses too, people getting mad at even the idea of because they dont like esports they are casuals. Yes, you are. If you dont respect the skills of players other than yourself, then you have never played a game enough to understand it at its fullest or tried to be the best you can be at whatever task or game.

>>384559636
cancer. needs to die.

>>384560694
I guess I am casual by those standards. E-sports are still gay and boring though.

>>384560694
>If you dont respect the skills of players other than yourself, then you have never played a game enough to understand it at its fullest or tried to be the best you can be at whatever task or game
A lot of /v/ is old enough to remember when video games were fun time killers, you clearly aren't one of them.

>>384559636
I like watching fighting games because they're fun to spectate. It feels nice when ever your main wins a tournament. Aside from that, I don't know about MOBAS or FPS.

>>384561091
Candy crush is a fun time killer

shitskins should be playing divegrass not video games

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>>384560694
>calls other people "casuals"
>prefers to watch le epic e-celebs playing games instead of playing them himself

Its not different than sports.

These are the best players in the world, and these competitions have been around and growing for almost 2 decades

>>384559819
thats funny. because there is a competition for typist kid.

>>384561169
I see you are trying to reaffirm your stance that /v/ is casual with this post. I'll take the bait and give you a (you), but don't you fucking sit there and lie to us about Candy Crush being fun.

>>384560694

This.

Though of course I have no problems with those who rather play those games and don't care for the comp scenes, but to diss the entire thing entirely is retarded.

>>384559636
loool look at those pitiful biceps and forearms. I'd be ashamed

If watching people playing videogames on a stadium is stupid,watching people chasing after a ball is stupid as well

>Iron Chef
why not just cook yourselves XD
>America Idol
why not just sing yourselves XD
>X Factor
why not just do a talent by yourselves XD
>BBQ Pitmasters
why not just go grill yourselves XD
>World Series of Poker
why not just play poker yourselves XD
>Dancing with the stars
why not just dance by yourselves XD
>Jeopardy
why not just answer triva by yourselves XD
>Nathans annual hotdog eating contest
why not just eat a hotdog yourselves XD
>Chess World Championship
why not just play chess yourselves XD
>All 28 Olympic events
why not just play sports yourselves XD
>Competitive Video Games
why not just video games yourselves XD

>>384561790
You are either crazy or dumb

>>384561790
t. a billy no m8's who never had any athleticism.

>>384561903
Probably both but that's not the point,I'm still right

>>384561847
This

>>384561972
>watching sports
why not just play it yourself kid?

>>384561790

Athleticism has always been respected because it's impressive and takes a lot of hard work, sitting in front of a computer and playing a game isn't. Doesn't matter how long you have played or how good you are, to 95% of people in the world that would seem sad and pathetic as fuck if you'd try to tell them that you're professional video game player.

>>384562161
>im a casual that exclusively plays single player only games
you can stop posting now

E-sports could be cool but instead we got really shitty character/class based games dominating the scene.

>>384559636
Is Neymar the most overrated football player?

I hate to break it to you, old farts, but Esports is a sport.
A sport can be defined as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment."
A video game, particular at higher levels requires much higher muscle memory, hand eye coordination and APM, which IS physical exertion in a sense.
Also, being a pro requires a lot of skill and practice.
Liking Esports makes you a casual and a loser is debatable, but saying it's not a sport makes you a fucking autismo.

cancer

>>384561291
>It's not different than sports
You mean you would put JWonderChild in the same category as fucking Usain Bolt or McGregor for example?

>>384562667
>Playing fucking video games is a sport
Shut the fuck up underage summerfag

>>384563330
>not even reading
what are you blind

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>>384562667
>Esports are sports too

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>>384559636
competitive masturbation is a sport too.

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>>384562667
>taking this shit seriously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ExDWMe0ug

>>384563371
Ok I'll take the bait if that's what you want.
>moving a mouse and pressing some keys on a keyboard is physical exertion
Are you meaning to say those are the same as sprinting for 5 miles no stop and being tired at the end?
>being a pro requires a lot of skill
>playing fucking video games is a skill
>moving a mouse and pressing some keys on a keyboard requires the same amount of practice as lifting or cooking
Fuck off with this bullshit

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Leave the monkeys to the pig.

>>384559636
the only esport that mattered was korean starcraft bw during the kespa era.

>>384561847
the rest are a lot harder than pressing buttons

>>384564194
I'd say it takes a lot longer to get decent a playing Starcraft or Counter Strike than to get decent at cooking.

>>384564041
S I P B O Y S 2 0 1 7

>>384559636
E-Sports are like interesting and challenging versions of bore-sports.

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E-sports are sports, chess and poker are sports too

>NO IT ISN'T

Ok that's your opinion, it's not like being recognized as a sport by some people will change the fact that the industry is growing at crazy rates and it's fun to watch by quite the amount of gamers

>>384564396
Cooking like a great Chef does take dozens of years though, should have chosen Poker, IWD an ex-league pro used to play Poker competitively until he got robbed at gun point lol

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>>384559636
At least it's better than divegrass.

I like watching fighting game esports because there's nonstop action and the combos are better than I could do

csgo is ok

mobas are retarded to watch because they have to grind half the match and they take forever and aren't even hard to play mostly. They just memorize a recipe from r*ddit

only good one is dota

also fuck these new captchas

>>384564596
>e-sports
>chess
>poker
Except they're not. They're games.

>>384564616
>they have to grind half the match and they take forever and aren't even hard to play mostly. They just memorize a recipe from r*ddit
retard

>>384563984
>pick up heavy thing
>put ingredient in pot

only the greatest minds can develop such skills

>>384564836
whoops
https://www.olympic.org/world-chess-federation

sad that /v/ is so contrarian they still say lmao esports lmao

they literally have teams, jerseys, and train many hours together to get good

not any worse than stupid hoop ball where just being certain height means you're destined to go pro

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coon shit for low IQ children

>>384564854
>bing! bing! bing!
>lvl up!
>pick up your loot!
lmao it's like a generic grinding simulation no thanks. 50 minute game where interesting things happen for 5 minutes tops

>>384563098
>strawman
no i would say its the best players in the world competing and doing shit the average person cant. like sports.

>inb4 its just clicking XD
its just kicking a ball XD

>>384564943
>because the point of chess is to win
Welp it's official, Monopoly is a sport too

>>384564194
you have a sub 100 IQ if you actually think this

Quake is high octane as fuck. But in general, it's too niche and too based on uber juvenile hobby, so it is hard to take it somewhat seriously. Even if it is quite hard on a competitive pro level

>>384565163
No, actally you do if you think pressing buttons like a manchild is harder than a competitive real world skill of any kind.

>>384565163
t. brainlet that thinks video games are hard

>>384564943
>He thinks lifting and cooking are that easy.
Wow, no wonder you are a weaboo basement-dweller who never touched a weight (or a woman) in his entire life

>his life is pathetic and all he does is play videogames and shitpost on /v/
>WOW ESPORTS IS SO BAD NOW I CAN MAKE MONEY PLAYING VIDEOGAMES? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FUCKING NORMIES I WANT TO BE A FUCKING LOSER ESPORTS IS CANCER LET IT DIE

Lmao'ing @ ur life tbqh

>>384565512
t.e-athlete that couldn't compete with the big boys in real sports

>>384565330
>>384565289
>the highest level of competition in video games is just pressing buttons
Nice to know youve never played multiplayer anything in your life

>>384565079
>The average person can't move a mouse and press a button
And yes, football is just kicking a ball. Problem is your fatass couldn't even reach a ball should someone want to dribble it away from you

>>384565606
The why the fuck are you even here you massive faggot go play real sports if your so good

>>384565512
I don't play video games. Can confirm esports is gay

>>384565669
Thats what were saying. A lot of us DO participate in real sports and enjoy video games on the side because we arent underage b&

>>384565606
>>384565654
>it doesnt take skill just because I said so
If shitposting was sport you would be undefeated

>>384565654
I went to a D1 school for athletics kid. Because I know what competition is

>>384565037
retard

>>384565746
>A lot of us DO participate in real sports and enjoy video games on the side because we arent underage b&
>>>/reddit/

>>384565935
Nope i bet i have been here longer than you, newfag. Its only kids i see who pretend esports are legit

>>384565869
life waster

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>>384564990
BASED

Indifferent. Getting upset over something as dumb as this is so goddamn pointless.

>>384566487
>going to /v/
>not getting mad at pointless shit

>>384565503
I lift and cook. I'd be very curious where you think the skill comes in when doing either on those on an average level. I can see it with a complex lift like the clean and jerk or a dish like beef wellington, but generally mostly it's nothing more than following a few simple, linear instructions.

>>384566406
we wouldn't want people who waste their lives here on the 4chan video game discussion board.

>>384566730
Whats your stats fag

Bet you cant even bench 3pl8

>>384562043

because athletes train years to push their body to their genetical maximum to compete with other people who did the same.
There is a really low percentage of people who are genetically blessed to become a top-athlete, or who even have the willpower to put their bodies to these extremes so "normal" people appreciate when these people compete against each other.

any fat faggot with too much time on his hands can become good at video-games.

>>384567028
a lot of people can get good at [activity] by investing a bit of time in doing it. but very few people get very good at [activity].

Who is going to win the international?

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>>384567028
You are proving his point lol, people can get good at X stuff by training hard, woah...

Also if your point is, the scope of real sports is deeper to learn than e-sports, you haven't proved it. E-sport players have faster reaction times and score higher on IQ tests like the Wonderlic test, an argument against that.

>B-BUT YOU NEED A GOOD BODY TO BE IN A SPORT

Well there are good pro players who are in great shape, ironically there are very few fat fucks in the scenes. Most top orgs have gyms in the gaming houses.

Also there are fat fucks in the NFL for fucks sake, and there are soccer players with bad core and slim arms too. You are talking about olympics athletes, which is not the actual discussion.

>>384565770
You're not that bright, are you?

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>>384569073

its pretty fucking meaningless when you get to the bottom of it
there's so many kids trying to be pro gamers but only 0.01% of them will ever make a living off it
and even then, you'll only be good for a moment and fade into mediocrity

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If people generally don't consider skateboarding a real sport then why would sitting in front of a computer all day considered a sport.
hahaha what the fuck

>>384559636
cancer killing games

>>384561291
So is writing, drawing, etc. sports also? They've been around and had competitions longer than before video games were a thing

>>384564943
>Not maintaining proper stove heat
>Not properly marinating
>Not making sure the meat has a right amount of fat on it.
>Not making sure he isn't putting too much or too little seasoning
>Not thinking how he should present the food
>Not doing all of that in way that is efficient with time
Just because you put your tendies in a microwave does not mean cooking is easy, anon.

>>384562667
>A sport can be defined as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment."
Well I guess writing is a sport. Drawing and singing too. Hell there's even competitions for jacking off, guess that's a sport. Least we can all say we're athletes then.
>Also, being a pro requires a lot of skill and practice.
So does writing and drawing and singing. Guess what, you don't see people going autistic over having people say it's a sport. You know why? Because they are their own thing and people let it be their own thing. Trying to hamfist it into something like a sport just makes it seem like a joke.

>>384571053
Writing and drawning arent something where you directly compete against other people so not it makes no sense to call it a sport.

>>384571534
>>384571405
"an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment."
Doesn't say anything about directly competing, just competing against them. When things do writing/drawing competitions for some reputation on it/scholarships/etc. they are still competing against other people.

CS is really fun to watch. LoL is a snoozefest though.

The only non-physical activity that should be allowed to be called a sport is chess. Anything else can fuck off.

>>384564396
Starcraft maybe, counter strike fuck no

>>384572082
why only chess?

>>384559786
>>Why do you need to watch ultra-autists do it at breakneck speed?

Because it's great to see?

>>384559749
Well aren't chess and poker also called sports?
If that's the case then i don't see why another non physical sport couldn't be called a sport

>>384572082
>>384572169
This. Why should sport be considered chess to begin with? I think esports as sports is stupid, but chess and poker as them is also stupid

>>384571231
>mostly stuff you have no excuse not to get right after 2 or 3 tries

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>>384561847

Every single one of them is a valid argument you underachieving normie.

Why the fuck would you even watch sports if you don't need to observe others' strategies to get better at the sport you are doing?

>>384571231
and you think your average competitive game has less going on than that?

>>384572110
Care to elaborate?

>>384572771
For entertainment. This isn't a serious question, right? No one can actually be this retarded.

>>384564194
But knowing when to press each of those buttons is the hard part

>>384566448

LARD GARGLING

What about having esports shown on ESPN and shit?

>>384573375
Don't they shod chess and poker there?
I think there should be separate channels for physical sports, traditional strategy based games (aka chess and poker) and E-Sports

But if there is only one channel. If you are gonna show chess and poker you might as well show e-sport

>>384559636
They are, indeed, sports. I don't give shit. Those who disagree are on the same level of mentality as metal purists, "X engineering is not actual engineering" and so on.
If you wanted to draw stereotypes, it would be like this:
>average sports fan is a sub-70 iq fat fuck who stays in front of the tv all the time rambling about this season's scores
>average e-sports fan is a 16 year old scrawny kid with a sociopathic disorder and no friends
Just two breeds of cancer, really.
But the fun in sports and e-sports alike is PLAYING the games themselves and learning from what you see the best players doing. People who watch poker/chess games aren't exactly wasting their time.
If you just watch things, don't bother doing so. It's the equivalent of watching an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, or a YouTuber playing a horror game for 20 minutes. You get nothing post-experience.
Same thing why everybody hates ultras. They take pride in seeing people being paid millions a month run after a ball - something which they have NO effect on.

It's being over-hyped enough that I suspect there will be a massive "adjustment" (downwards) for it.

>>384559636
Cringeworthy.

>>384572385
except video games ARE physical unlike poker or chess, you can be an expert on every game mechanic in CS and know the best strategies but it'd mean nothing if you don't train regularly. like 5 hours a day every day

>>384559749
>and pretend that they are contributing to society.
as if footballers and tennis players "contribute to society" either

they're grown men playing with gravity and friction (99% of all sports)

>>384574263
Well same applies to poker when it comes to bluffing but i'm sure you can see the different levels of physicality that are for example boxing and playing lol

>>384564616
I agree. They are fun to play casually, but sure they are better than sleeping pills when you watch a game.

Nothing tops fighting games, arena shooters or Melee