There is much debate about whether eSports can be considered a real sport. We asked for your opinions and here are the results.
What was the survey about? There are ongoing debates about whether eSports can be viewed as a real sport. The latest trigger was a dismissive comment from sports presenter Julia Scharf regarding the Fortnite World Championship and the players who participated.
After heated discussions about this topic had arisen under various eSports articles from us, we wanted to capture your opinions in a survey.
Here’s how you voted: The distribution of votes was as follows:
- Yes, definitely: 64.42%
- No, that’s nonsense: 35.58%
It is not surprising that the readers of a gaming site are predominantly of the opinion that eSports can be regarded as a real sport. However, the proportion of readers who disagreed is still quite high.
A total of 534 readers participated in the survey.
“eSports doesn’t need it at all”
This is what you said on the topic: In addition to the survey, you also left numerous comments under the article and on social media. Interestingly, a third opinion emerged on the subject.
Accordingly, eSports does not need to be recognized as a real sport. It sets different priorities and has a different target audience. For instance, Teoman A. commented on Facebook: “It doesn’t have to be seen as a sport. It doesn’t need it at all.”
This opinion was also frequently expressed in the comments under the article:
I generally believe that all this striving for recognition as a sport is completely unnecessary. Let’s be honest: Does any eSports player or eSports enthusiast really want eSports to become Olympic?
DDuck
Therefore, you believe that eSports is not a sport: Another strong tendency was that readers who voted “no” often did not consider officially recognized sports such as darts or chess as real sports either. For them, sport is closely linked to physical performance.
Sport is defined and differentiated by physical performance factors, such as the trainability of strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility […]
Bozz Borus
It ultimately depended on how each of you defined the term “sport”, whether you viewed it more traditionally as physical activity and exertion or rather as pure competition.
