Not exactly.
Reason:
Some people think that one of the reasons why video game competition is listed as a sport is that it is competitive, and different from ordinary video games, its team also has planned training, eating and rest, similar to sports athletes. But I think sport is sport and competition is competition. The two cannot be confused. When sports activities aim at exercising, it is sports, and when sports activities aim at winning games, it is sports competition. This difference is related to various injuries of athletes.
In addition to competitions, activities held to decide the outcome of sports competitions can be considered as sports competitions, and activities held to decide chess and cards competitions can be called intelligence competitions. In the same way, the Olympic Games can also become a math competition, various production competitions and professional skills competitions, all of which are based on rankings. They can be called competitions, but they can never be called sports. The same is true of video game competitions.
Some people can play chess and go, which is also a sport. But think about it carefully, is there any essential difference between military chess, fighting landlords, three chess and one card, which are not listed as sports? Don't! Therefore, three chess and one card are intellectual sports, and their games are intellectual competitions, and sports should never be divided. Yes, sports should also be divided into political movements such as knowledge movement, sports movement and even the May 4th Movement.
By the way, the abbreviation "e-sports" of video games is suspected of deceiving the world and stealing reputation. The scope of electronics is too large, from software development, e-commerce to chip design and production, all of which can be classified as electronics. The abbreviation that is more suitable for video game competition should be video game competition or video game competition.
PS: In the past three years, I played video games for more than two hours on average.
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Supplement 1: Let's talk about the difference between sports and sports in detail: the purpose of sports is to exercise, not to win. I remember shouting the slogan when I was a child: develop sports and enhance people's physique. Instead of developing sports and winning the Olympic gold medal. So running is a sport, and running (some people think it is fashionable to call running competition) is a sports competition. It's just that sometimes the word sports is verbose, which is simply sports.
The purpose of competition is to win, and the purpose of sports competition is naturally to win. Physical exercise is just a means to win. If you hurt your body in order to win, those athletes will take the initiative to do it: take drugs, make some injuries regardless of your health in order to win, and have long-term special training: stovepipe walking and long-distance running, muscle protrusion of shot put, and sumo. Is training really to make them healthier? The reason for banning drugs in sports competitions is not so much that it is harmful to health and contrary to the spirit of sports, but rather that it violates the spirit of fair competition.
Supplement 2: Understanding the difference between sports and sports competition, we can find that the sentence "Does electronic game competition count as sports or sports" is inappropriate in the collocation of subject and object. It should be revised as follows
"Does the electronic game competition count as a sports competition?"
At the end of the sentence, there is no denial of its competitiveness, so the words competitive on both sides are deleted.
"Does video games count as sports?"
As long as video games count as sports, video game competitions must count as sports competitions. If video games are not sports, then video game competitions must not be sports.
I have seen video games, which are closely related to dance machines, basketball functions and sports. It is foreseeable that some VR games with somatosensory capture can also stick to sports in the future.