It's official! Gaming is Now Considered a Sport!

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It's official! Gaming is Now Considered a Sport!

October 30, 2005 - 9:31 PM by Force Flow | Category: Internet News

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Source: Fox Sports

2. Johnathan Wendel, aka "Fatal1ty" Sport: Video Games

Career Highlights: A member of the Cyberathlete Professional League (yes, this exists) since 1999, Wendel won two world Quake III championships in a month, earning him a total of $44,000. According to his website, "(Wendel) presently reigns as the only three-time CPL Champion of the Year, winning each annual title in a different game, a feat never before accomplished." Cool.

I swear!  It's right up there with Men's Tennis, Poker, and College Football!

Source: Fox Sports

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comment:  >:(  we are wasting out time with emp.. i bet some players here can beat that guy in any game

[DelugeD]

Guess ill waste my time playing Emp then ;D

[Nuvollari]

gaming its not a sport........

[DelugeD]

YEAH and Neither is syncronized swimming. I mean if it were a sport it would be in the olympics  ;)

[Rostok]

lol spicy.. u seen that guy? He's insane.

[jeff2429]

lol spicy.. u seen that guy? He's insane.

Look who's talking. :P

Edit:  The guy with the post under me is gay.

[erjin999]

Look whos looking at others looking :P

Gaming a sport ? It was/is only a matter of time...

[spicy]

well if chess is a sport then.... why not. chess is a game isnt it. the relation they are trying

to make here is that you can be a profftional  gamer and earn ure living out of it..

and in that case u dont call that an office job. its a game and games are mostly  sports

any way u do move in a fast racing game more than u move in a chess game. i hurd about a guy

from east europ  that won the champion  of the world title in need for speed game

  and EA  gave him money. a house. and a real gta car. can u belive that,  i saw it on tv,

  he works in the testing team for need for speeed game.

  look even at meddal of honor web . now they have 1000s of dollares  prises  for the elit players

that can get to stages no one other can and get some kind of wining code. thats real cool.

  nuvollary ure rong man. gamming is a sport just like pool or chess speacialy if u are earing money from it.

i see some players on arrakies that have good skilles i bet they can be somthing if they try new games.i for my self playe for fun. i never allow my self to get serious and get nurves.

i know i can get better but that is just the ammount of effort i want to put in a game.

if my alleys think am a nob let it be. lazy is the word

[Megashrap]

Well, to make it an actual sport with cash earnings and prizes requires a whole lot of sponserships from mega-companies, not isolated 1 time winnings from one game company. I don't think you will be making a living and become rich and famous at gaming anytime soon. Winning a few contests maybe here and there.

[Nuvollari]

Real sports are Football,basketball and so...

[spicy]

  nuvollary i know what you mean man.... but u dont understand what am saying.

  did u ever see a fat clumzy man playing balling with massive 120 kilogram stomic???

  and even wining some real turnemet. they still call balling a sport.. and that fat guy

  a sport man. even that he cant  run up the stairs.. look at chess players they sit on there

  butt for dayes smoking hashesh just to decide what the next move is.and its still a sport.

  sport dont allwayes mean  mouhamad aly  or maradona,.  look at sport games for example

  why do u think they make them?  like football games and racing and tennis ec... i tell u because gaming is realated to sport.

and scar i wasnt talking about the present all i mean is that thing is starting to happen now.

and surly in the future it will have its audience  some games have more than 5000 players on line

at any time of day  24/7.  from 5 years we didnt have that spectators. its mutch more peapol

than u usaly find in a football staduim..u can imaging after 5 more years maybe there will be famouse games and have 50 000 on line players... then they will have stars  and champions

and those games will be called a sport games.even if they were war games.

[desertway]

The definition of sport is "an individual or group competitive activity involving physical exertion or skill, governed by rules, and sometimes engaged in professionally". I would not call clicking a mouse or using a game controller physical exertion or skill. I may be wrong... but that's just my opinion.

[erjin999]

Skill it definately is, ask spazelord and elite co..

As for physical exertion, ask spicy who is always knackered after a night of emping :P

[Madenod]

Ahhhh ok so, Is a VIOLENT game considered a sport?

Considering it is a GAME and people have died over violent games due to copying violence out of it. ???

[spicy]

strange thing des. a man with your skilles say gaming dont need skilles?

man i repeat,, i didnt claim gaming will give you a budy fitness, or make you athelet .

its that kind of sport like chess or pool or golf or even balling, were you use a lot of energy but it dosnt realy make run for 10 kilometers. i allwayes get so hungree after few games

and i feel the effort trying to fight back someone like  yukolord  off my base. i do feel am runing

with those inf around and around and i do get tierd after few games.

madenod i find most games i playe extremly funny and helarious. speacialy when guys like nunu

or korlover  or yuko are playing. there just comedy man. no 1% vilonce is there, maybe more than

  70% pure comedia and fun.... peapol have died my freind  climing cold iced mounten. or jumping

from airoplains. or even driving a 500cc motor bick at 300kph  and they still call that a sport.

  i never see anyone die playing dune

[DelugeD]

EMP i hope makes into the next olympics

and its a skill. so must be a sport.

unlike click and twitch..doom style games

run backwards jump and shoot.

yeah thats fun ???

[Nuvollari]

I totally agree with Desertway

[erjin999]

I totally disagree with you, but wont give any ideas or sugesstions of my own (!)

::)

[spicy]

  PLAYING,PLAYE = SPORT. any game you playe ,playing it self is a sport what ever the game is.if not sport for the budy then for the mind.

just let me put it like this.. do you feel the same playing a 2 hours game of empror with a players

like ords doom or gunwounds, as you feel if u were watching a 2 hours long drama movie?

  i bet u have big deffrence as the game start you would exersise your skilles and reflexes like des said. and  compete them with the others, as it is not a total phisical exersise even that it needs to move (unlike chess which is olso a sport hehehe) you defnetly exersise ure reflexes and control skilles

sport is not allwayes to the mussels even exersising some energy demanding skilles is considered a sport. just like pool.

whats so hard about jumping from a airplan and open a parachoot and whait in vain for 3 houres to get back home . its just skill  and its still a sport

[spicy]

anyway this post wasnt about if gaming is a sport to the budy or not like u miss figuerd out

its about gamers turning to proffetional players(see haw i say playe,playeing is sport)

just likr sport  stars and can have money and fam coming out of there proffetion maybe not now

but can be in the future

[Reactor]

Finally! We're not "computer-using dorks" anymore! It's nice to hear, man!  :)

[spicy]

well i didnt  saiy to you to order 5 large pizza and burger sandwitches and sit 24/7 on a weel chair pumping botons, u will defnetly get crazy at the end... haw about if u come back from ure work or school and do ure daily workout or home work and at night if u have extra time and some nice games u can keep the action going and  release a lot of extra energy better than watching tv whitch i hurd

it would slow down ure barin less than if u were sleeping....

sport activities havnt allwayes been to run 10 miles. its ure style of having a playe life and moving, its like a big piramyed when u put it up bet by bet, even small  actions can be a pice of

that energy peramyed .

[Reactor]

Of course, I meant gaming THAT way.

I like tons of hamburgers though  :D

[DelugeD]

sPICY HAS A POINT

look at the X-games

skateboarding a sport now

i didnt like it 10 yrs ago and damnit NOW i watch the crap.

some day ill see RTS on X games

[spicy]

  deluged.its not my artical i just read it on fox sport and copy and past it because i find it

strange my self. but i  have to say i liked the idea