InfiniteGXT
Smash Journeyman
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I have been smashing a long time. I was there for true life, for the mlgs, for the OC Biweeklies.
I love smash. But that does NOT make it a "sport." Sports, in generally are explicitly different from video games. There is a big difference between Madden 2k9 and actual football. You cant call them both a sport when they are so obviously different.
As humans we often want to glorify our interests, because in essence, that glorifies and validates us even more. But it is unrealistic to say that a game where you are sweating and tackling, and being tackled, and generally physically involved is categorically the same as a game where you hang out in a room and hit buttons on a controller for hours at a time.
For those of you who like definitions:
Game is defined in Dictionary.Com as:
a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators.
Sport is defined as:
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
Athletic is defined as:
involving the use of physical skills or capabilities, as strength, agility, or stamina.
We love melee/brawl. We want to make it seem important, to other people by categorizing it as a sport. Smash is not a sport. It is a game. A high stakes game. A game where you can win alot of money and spend alot of time practicing at to try to get better. A game many of us may take very seriously. But it is not a sport.
And I dont think we should feel the need to classify it as one.
I have been smashing a long time. I was there for true life, for the mlgs, for the OC Biweeklies.
I love smash. But that does NOT make it a "sport." Sports, in generally are explicitly different from video games. There is a big difference between Madden 2k9 and actual football. You cant call them both a sport when they are so obviously different.
As humans we often want to glorify our interests, because in essence, that glorifies and validates us even more. But it is unrealistic to say that a game where you are sweating and tackling, and being tackled, and generally physically involved is categorically the same as a game where you hang out in a room and hit buttons on a controller for hours at a time.
For those of you who like definitions:
Game is defined in Dictionary.Com as:
a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators.
Sport is defined as:
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
Athletic is defined as:
involving the use of physical skills or capabilities, as strength, agility, or stamina.
We love melee/brawl. We want to make it seem important, to other people by categorizing it as a sport. Smash is not a sport. It is a game. A high stakes game. A game where you can win alot of money and spend alot of time practicing at to try to get better. A game many of us may take very seriously. But it is not a sport.
And I dont think we should feel the need to classify it as one.
