Firstly and foremost, esports is really a sport. That’s a question that some people ask and some people know I asked around but beforehand I asked my esports team and you can guess most of them said yes but what they had to say was agreeable. Some of the things that they said was something along the lines of “ i always believe its an actual sport.” which was funny cause every single answer was basically the same so i went out on a limb and did some interviews with other people around the school i asked a person named Austin and what he had to say was different from the teams answers he said “ i dont really think of it as a full on sport but it is in its own way.” I naturally took it with a grain of salt but also found it agreeable because I had the same thing on my mind and came to think it actually is a sport but it has its own way of being one. Just people say that the and club is a sport. Think about it, anything that has in person live tournaments and other stuff should be considered a sport. Like clubs or even card games like pokemon and magic, gathering those should deserve to be a sport.
In a way the public opinion in this school states that if it has a tournament and people are at least getting some kind of physical exercise in with it while they are doing the thing that they are doing and at least having fun with it then they consider something like that a sport. Because for a sport you have to most of the time have some kind of physical activity or work put into it. Whereas esports takes a lot of teamwork and immense focus and effort to achieve victory like our esports team take the mario kart one for instance to be on that team or for that team it takes a lot of leadership and dedication as well as teamwork to help stay or keep your teammate in first place.
In conclusion esports is a sport it is just that it takes more of the mental capacity then the physical which is ok cause for being able to get good at something like mario kart or rocket league you have to have a learning mind that is able to know what to do even if you get into a tense situation.
By Ethan ochoa
