I watch some of the tourny's on twitch. I've been to WCG before when it was in Seattle, but other than that I haven't really had many of them pop up on my screen so I have no idea they are going on. Apparently a lot of people get into them though, seeing as the SC2 tournament was going on on twitch and had 22 thousand people watching it. I mean thats quite a few for a video game match.

e-sport...

I don't get it actually. But I still cringe when they claim the "World Series of Poker" to be a sport.

Wikipedia has this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport, I tend to agree that "sport" should be some sort of physical activity. Not to say you could not have Pro-gaming circuts, that spectators could ans should watch.

Am I forseeing scolarships to major universities for LoL players? doubtfull. Maybe some gamers with the tourch at the Olymipcs? I hope not.

I am all about being a "pro-gamer", by that I mean one that makes a living at gaming, but it is not a sport. Maybe it is all semantics, but I think it should be.

My wide angle lens on life sees all these "nerds" trying to get  relabled as "jocks" by calling what they do a sport.

Do What Cha Like, and be proud of it. Don't try conform by calling it what it is not.

I love playing sports and watching sports.  I love playing games and watching games.  Watching a shout-casted game of League of Legends has all the same important qualities of watching a basketball/football game on TV.  

Originally posted by Four0Six

e-sport...

I don't get it actually. But I still cringe when they claim the "World Series of Poker" to be a sport.

Wikipedia has this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport, I tend to agree that "sport" should be some sort of physical activity. Not to say you could not have Pro-gaming circuts, that spectators could ans should watch.

Am I forseeing scolarships to major universities for LoL players? doubtfull. Maybe some gamers with the tourch at the Olymipcs? I hope not.

I am all about being a "pro-gamer", by that I mean one that makes a living at gaming, but it is not a sport. Maybe it is all semantics, but I think it should be.

My wide angle lens on life sees all these "nerds" trying to get  relabled as "jocks" by calling what they do a sport.

Do What Cha Like, and be proud of it. Don't try conform by calling it what it is not.

I think you had it right when you said your complaints are essentially bickering over semantics.  The term "e-sports" simply arose from professional gaming's obvious similarities to professional sports: the competition, teamwork, score keeping, criteria for victory, shoutcasting, fans, etc.   No pretentiousness involved.  In fact, I would argue the very term "electronic sports" would sound downright laughable to non "nerds" as you generalize the group.  It sounds just that way: nerdy.

FYI Revenge of the Nerds was a hyperbolic parody, not meant to represent actual reality :p  There isn't one uniform body of nerds who actualy seek to become another stereotyped body known as the jocks.  

I watched a couple of starcraft 2 videos commented by TB when they where still on his main channel i think, it was pretty entertaining but it's not something I seek out to watch

I watched some of the DOTA2 International tournament. It was interesting but I probably wouldn't do it again.

aww )'; who hates e-sports?

I watched the 1st year they televised the WoW arena championships, or whatever it was.

And it was the most boringist thing I ever watched. The announcers were total fucking idiots who barely knew the classes much less the spells/abilities/builds. And the few matches I tried to watch were just shitty little 20-30 seconds of "highlites" usally of the last guy getting killed.

I wanted to watch matches, from start to finish. Never tuned in again.

Now I do watch the Eve Alliance Tournament. And I actually look forward to them every year. And I will make plans to stay at home on those weekends, at those times to watch them.

Except for the joke that was last years finals. I will probably just watch up to the semi-finals.

Their commentators are smart, funny, intelligent, game savy, and sometimes assholes. But its all good. Love the pseudo-commericals. And the out right makeing fun of themselves that CCP does. And they usally sneak in something about WoD.

Very rarely.  Depends on the game really, and I guess the announcers. If I do sit down and watch some footage of a tournament of something it's mainly to get a feel for the game or get info about the game. Maybe even steal some strategies muhahaha. I can't watch too long though, usually just makes me want to go play the game, not watch it.

EDIT:  I just realized yeah like the poster above I do watch the Eve AT.  I usually know people in it and a couple times almost participated.  I've been in alliances that had teams and it's fun to work on plans/strats!

Originally posted by dominia

All the time, only Starcraft 2.

This, more or less.

I watch um.....LoL tournaments, UMVC3 tournaments...Umm...Not really dota 2 but I watched a few!

I dont watch SC2 tourneys either o.o 

No never watch them, it's boring as $#%@

I'd rather spend my time in my MMO.

Much like for football I'll only watch semi-finals/finals of big e-sports events.

E-sports annoy me, because they are constantly pushing this absurd idea that gameplay has to be perfectly balanced.  That idea is fine for an RTS or an FPS.  For RPGs, it falls flat!

sorry but video games are not a sport.

Oddly I can't stand watching normal sports on TV/Web (baseball, football, etc) because its boring as hell to me. I feel the same way about eSports. I would rather play a sport than watch it (unless its one of my kids/friends/family playing in it - then I will suffer through :P )