Persuasive Argument Post

Should Videogames be considered a Sport?

The opinions about this topic are normally varied. In my opinion I have to say that I completely believe that video-games should be considered a sport. First off we have to know that even if they are not a physical sport, video-games require as much skill and mental focus as physical sports if not more.

Besides of this the competition is at pretty good level, and believe it or not, video-game professional players have to train so many hours. If chess is considered a sport, we cannot deny that video-games is a sport, just as chess, the video-games that are played nowadays at high competitive level, like for example League of Legends, or Star Craft, require so much strategy and skill, which has to be practiced just as chess or any other sport.

Furthermore the coordination needed at video-games is pretty important, if we compare them with football or soccer, there would be no difference of coordination level. Another factor important to consider is that as in professional physical sports, electronic sports are paid so well, a professional electronic sports player can live perfectly just with the salary that his team provides him. Besides of this, nowadays video-games tournaments are played worldwide, and the amount of money that the champion or the finalists can win could be perfectly millions of dollars, as an example we can take the League of Legends worlds tournament that took place in 22 September of this year, where the winners, Samsung White, won 8.5 million dollars. Since we are dealing with millions of dollars, how can we deny that video-games cannot be considered sports?

Lastly, besides of all this facts it is important to know that video-games tournaments have the same crowds of supporters watching them or supporting them as the large number of persons who enjoy watching a physical sport or supporting it, buying merchandising or going to watch the games to the fields. We can take the example of the last League of Legends world’s tournament as proof, where roughly 11,000 persons were in attendance there, and over 32 million persons watched the live streaming of the tournament.