Yes people, Starcraft IS a sport.

I guess it's a (highly) competitive game requiring skill and whatnot, but there's no physical activity.

I'm pretty sure they have strong fingers.

Not a sport just because people play competitively. No physical activity means its not a sport. It's kinda saying like chess is a sport.

I don't know if this is a joke or not.. ^^;;

Man starcraft is totally a sport eventhough that the koreans own everyone. OMG ZERG RUSH!!!!

zerg rush don't work no more :P

Video games are not sports. They're a form of entertainment, nothing more. Very sad to see how Koreans are treated like celebrities just for playing a video game. What is the world coming to these days?

Well if chess is a sport, so then starcraft is a sport too.

"A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skilful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner and loser can be defined by objective means."

Definition of sport. Sounds like Starcraft fits there.

YEAH! We exorcise our fingers too!

Since when is chess a sport?

I don't care what the definition is, I refuse to believe glorifying one's ability to click really fast while playing an rts equates to a sport in it's own right.

>>13 "I dun care what dem sciencey types be sayin'; them queeroes ain't natural, and me n' ol' Bessy here gon' take care a dem!"

That's about what you're post boiled down to, in redneck speak.

>>13 Chess Boxing

if Chess were a sport that was like football that would be amazing

Sorry,but no only hopless weak losers think that starcraft is a sport.





*wink*(See how I didn't say geek or nerd)*wink*

>>17 And hopeless, pathetic, ignoramuses don't follow the dictionary definition of something because of a personal vendetta. Ball is in your court now. Or, more appropriately, the Roaches have invaded your base.

>>7 i hate when someone zerg rushes me,but its funny when they don't expect it back in waves

POWER OVERWHELMING

If I was good at Starcraft then it would totally be a sport.

> Starcraft is a sport.

This is the best sports thread ever. I love you.

why is a video game on here and why did this get bumped

This is like calling Call of Duty a sport. It's not.

I do agree that this should be on video games, but StarCraft II IS a sport. Not a sport in the traditional athletic sense, but it is played at an extremely high and competitive skill level in tournaments for an audience and players make a living off of playing the game. There are teams and sponsorships and player trades and an entire business side to it. It's not at the same level of traditional sports just yet(at least in most of the world, in South Korea it sort of is), but it is a somewhat profitable and competitive industry, and that should to be acknowledged and respected.

>>24
I will acknowledge that this is a game with an extremely competitive following. However, to call it a sport, I take issue with that.

Sports are competitive physical activities. No matter how into your games you get, video gaming is not a sport. I would acknowledge Major League Eating as a sport (and I don't) before I would acknowledge this as sport.

Gaming sports go by the name of esports (electronic sports).

I run Varsity Cross Country as school and I constantly argue with my friends that SC2 is a sport. I get the same feeling between the two and not to mention that SC2 is indeed the national sport of South Korea. The post above ^^ defines it well as an esport.

>>26 Chess is an olympic sport; the chess pieces aren't that heavy.

>>29
Wrong, Chess is not an Olympic sport. Now hush.

Starcraft is still just a video game, something where you are sitting in front of a computer, playing a video game. You may be competing, you may be competing for money, but in the end, you're still just playing a video game.

Also, national sport of Korea?

Taekwondo? (olympic martial art)
Baseball? (former olympic sport)
Soccer/Football? (olympic sport)

Your logic is flawed. Even if competitive video gaming is attempting to call itself "e-sports," you're still just sitting around playing a video game (albeit with an unnecessary amount of skill)

/sage

>>30
This.

I came into this debate completely ignorant to what Starcraft was, but I just looked it up. Every source talking about it refers to it as a "video game."
Call it a sport if you'd like, but this is a video game first and foremost. It goes in Games.
:P

Starcraft II is the national sport of South Korea. It is a sport that requires competitive play. In Korea just like any sport in America, players get hired by teams for 6-digit salaries. In 2005 for the world champs there were 40k more spectators in the sc2 arena than in the superbowl the same year. Tell me its not a sport after reading this: http://www.cracked.com/article_18763_5-insane-true-facts-about-starcraft-professional-sport.html

>>32Not to mention, if Baseball is considered a sport then SC2(which requires far more activity and training) is definitively a sport.

>>33
implying that a video game takes more activity and training than baseball

oh lawd. you make me lol.

With the pro baseballers, it's eat, sleep, baseball, every day of the year, and the best players make up to nine-digit salaries now. The only thing keeping the dedicated high school and college players from training full-time is their studies.

40k more people attended the 2005 World Series (which was a four-game sweep, so there could've been 120k more spectators on top of that) than your video game championship.

You're not risking heat stroke, a 85-100 mph fastball that will break your arm, leg or face if it hits you, or any other sort of injury when you play a video game. I highly doubt a pro Starcrafter will ever require Tommy John surgery from playing his video games. Aside from your hands and eyes, nothing physical is required to play a video game.

A million people can attend one of your events for all I care, but in the end, it's a million people watching a few guys play video games.

Oh, and another thing.

I can still play my sport if the power goes out, for baseball doesn't need an electrical outlet.

/sage