Sport vs E-sport

Sometimes my mum doesn't understand why I play computer games. Well, the best answer is: WE HAVE A GODDAMN GENERATION GAP. Yea, because older generations did not grow up with the luxury of advance technology, they don't quite understand why we, younger generation, love it. But actually E-sport has a lot of similarities to traditional sport like football, basketball, badminton etc.

What is sport? According to Wikipedia, a sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means.

What is E-sport? It means electronic sport - which mean it is also an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means - but it is played through electronic devices. 

Organization:

Traditional sport and E-sport are both well organized. Traditional sport like football, basketball, baseball etc has organizations to maintain their competitiveness and their function as entertainment. Football - FIFA, Basketball - NBA etc. E-sport are organized too. But unlike traditional sport which is organized according to categories, E-sport is organized by sponsors, This is because the game is updated and replaced everytime, you can't expect an organization to play only Street Fighter II 20 years ago and still play the same game which no one else plays anymore. In fact, E-sport organizations covered all varieties of games.

Competitiveness:

Competitiveness is the MOST important element in sports. You don't play a sport without competing. If there is no competitiveness element, it is not a sport - such as yoga. When we play basketball, even if it is a pickup game, we want to win as badly as LeBron James wants to win a NBA championship. Similarly, when we play DOTA, even there is a feeder on our team, we want to win as badly as LeBron James too.




Entertainment:
Yes, entertainment is the MOSTEST important element in sports. It is more important than being competitive. This is the reason why we enjoy playing sports instead of washing dishes. It is fun, enjoyable, relaxing, entertaining etc to play sports. If a person does not enjoy the sport, he/she will do some other activities such as yoga (entertaining for him/her but definitely not for me).



Skills:
All sports require skills. You just can't play a sport without learning how to play. But here is why I think E-sport is better than traditional sport. In traditional sport, our skills are limited by the law of physics and our body. For example, I can never dunk because I can never jump that high due to my height of 170cm and my skin color. But on the other hand, in E-sport, our skills are limited only by our own imagination. Anyone can be damn good in E-sport. You can be fat, slim, tall, short, male, female, gay, 6 fingers etc to be very good in E-sport. But in traditional sport, you know that a fat man can never outrun a slim man. Or on average, a girl is weaker physically than a guy. There is no such limitation in E-sport. So I can imagine in the next 50 years, E-sport will be more popular than traditional sport.

So given the advantage of E-sport, mum, please stop nagging me when I play computer games, okay?