If chess can be a mental sport there’s no way in hell that Starcraft isn’t. The mindgames and insane amount of instant control and choice making is crazy. Sure professional chess players attempt to go as quickly as possible but they could take their time if they wanted in Starcraft a fraction of a second can be the difference between winning or losing in a battle that you are controlling hundreds of variables
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Stache_@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I did a paper on this in college and if the Olympic committee deems chess as a “mental sport” then I sure and shit think esports can be considered a real sport too
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ok then mental sports need to have their own separate Olympics.
Because Olympics originated as a competitive showcase of the world’s peak physical prowess.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s a lot of grey area in that distinction though. There’s a handful of Olympic sports that showcase fine motor control in ways that aren’t that different from esports. Fencing and shooting are in the same realm as an RTS or FPS.
Cliff@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I agree with you on shooting. But fencing seems to be quite physical.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
So is gaming at the extremely high level. A best of 5 or 7 in SC2 is 45 minutes to an hour and a half of focus with multiple periods of extreme focus and reaction. In both cases actions are happening faster than average humans can observe.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
(tongue-in-cheeck devil’s advocate)
And everyone knows the best way to do things is never change them. Like music, and bigoted voting rights.