No, you cannot say the NHL isn't a sport because I wasn't using the fact that ESPN was covering hockey as a reason for it being one in the first place. You attempted to legitimize your claim of esports being a sport by mentioning this.
Actually, I didn't.
I stated the Nathan's hot dog eating contest was on ESPN and you states ESPN, the world leader in sports, which is their catch phrase, btw, is now marketing entertainment over sports.
Do they cover eSports? Probably.
Because gamers are athletes.
Glad you're harping on Ninja so much and completely ignoring the others.
Because Ninja in his prime was hands down the best gamer?
Ok, take True, the guy who has "professional athlete" on his Twitter. He's another who was very, very good back in the day.
Or do you want me to talk about a couple StarCraft guys? You tell me.
Because these guys are being paid like athletes?
I question this
It's a horrible analogy why?
Because no day trader can mop a lobby by themselves without dedicating a decent amount of time to perfecting said game.
Your whole argument seems to be that it's difficult, they make money, it's on ESPN, and now you're speculating that actual athletes would consider esports participants as athletes. None of this is even remotely convincing. This will go on and on, you'll make no attempt to actually clarify anything, so you keep thinking that what Ninja does is the same as what McDavid does.
Actually, I think 150k arena points in FN in one season is alot harder to do then what McDavid does. But that's just me.
See, I don't have sport athletes on a pedestal and appreciate the dedication a gamer puts into grinding. This is why you won't convince me that gamers aren't athletes.
Or that nascar drivers aren't athletes, etc.
If you actually played conpetitively, for money, on a big stage, you would know this.
Lol wat?
If you don't think if Bobby Fisher and his 140+ IQ chose to dedicate himself to a sport over chess, he wouldn't have been good, then I don't know what to tell you.