Next step: the Olympics?įor many esports fans and players, though, the most important thing is that esports are growing in popularity and importance. In fact, the governments of China and South Korea do classify esports as sports, and they will be an official medal sport in the Asian Games starting from 2022. If darts, snooker and shooting are classified as sports, then perhaps esports should be too. Players do need some physical skills, especially hand –eye coordination, reflexes, accuracy and timing. At the moment, the UK government classifies esports as kinds of games, not as sports.īut others say yes: esports are sports. Esports players don’t need to run, jump, throw or do big physical actions. For example, some games rename characters in the game with the names of online viewers!īut are esports really sports? Are players athletes? Some say no. Sometimes online viewers can interact with the game. They can be exciting to watch: just like other sports, there are close games, last-minute victories and amazing performances.
You can watch games on video sites like Twitch and YouTube and in the UK there’s a TV channel showing esports 24 hours a day. They also study videos of other players and plan ways to beat them.Īs well as playing games, many people like watching them too. They do exercises like typing something and trying to type it faster and faster. They practise for ten or more hours a day, five or six days a week.
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It’s not easy being a professional gamer, though. Did you know that football teams such as West Ham and Manchester City employ esports players? They send them around the world to compete in football video game competitions. Some of them have become professional gamers, playing games as their full-time job. Millions of people in the UK play games for fun. The prize money for the winners: £3 million.
It was esports, or competitive computer gaming. But this wasn’t a football, basketball or tennis match. Last summer over 12,000 fans were at Wembley Arena in London, shouting and cheering.
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