Are Video games counted as "Sport".

how about we address the myth of their claim that you burn more calories sleeping - and then show a graph clearly showing that you burn LESS calories sleeping.

but the basis of counting the video game as a "sport" is not about whether it is healthy for the participants or builds valuable workforce skills - it is about whether it attracts people to either donate to the college or to pay the college to promote their products or services. - or whether it attracts the sort of students they want to have. being a liberal arts college, it may be seeking more socially inclined students - and doing that by targeting those students who play multiplayer games.

is it an important part of life that young athletes need an education in playing football? (association or gridiron)

my point is the college sees some benefit to its interests in deeming the online game to be worth promoting. it is not necessary that the benefit also benefit the world.

What kind of skill does it take to sit up in a tree and shoot harmless animals that wander by, yet hunting is also considered a "sport."

As far as I understand, to measure how many calories you burn during any activity, you measure the heart rate and the oxygen uptake during that period, plot them into a very specific equation and then get a number out the other end. Heart rate alone won't be enough, since that can be raised by a series of different things, including stress, which experts have claimed is something that's present in abundance when playing competitive video games, but isn't something that necessarily increases your oxygen uptake.

I'm sure if we can't find a good way to measure it, the show's researchers can. In fact, I'm pretty sure that even if we do find a reliable method, they'd have to research it anyway, since they can't just take our word for it.

There is a world of difference between Games and Sport.

I can sit here playing games all day....
Football?.. after 10 mins, get me a respirator.

Sport to me is a word that denotes the physical side of competitive games.

To use Sport in a non physical way is just wrong.
it degrades the phrase.

Now what are we going to use to denote Physical activity?...
And by the way, I object as a slightly dyslexic person, Sport is a lot easier to spell.
Its also a perfectly good usable term to denote physical activity, its sports, all things physical.

Competitions is the next term down, that covers all competitive things physical and not so physical.

I know language changes, but this change is wrong, its NOT sport, it competition.
And no, I dont think a university degree in just playing non physical games is good enough, even if it does get competetive.
Design and production values, yes, give them a gong.
Beta testing is part of that.
Just playing in an alternative universe is not worthy of being called a sport...
Its a downtime activity, its recreational, its a time waster, its sometimes very entertaining.
But if my Kid playing games is "Doing homework"........
No.
Its just wrong.
Do these kids now expect that they leave school with a education entirely based around their qualification to play games and expect someone will employ them to do so?...

The gamers who write the code are experienced gamers.
They got where they are by CREATING the games.
They are the ones who will play it and beta test it and make the necessary corrections....
So where exactly is the space for a career sitting on your fat backside playing games?

And by the way, I am not so sure I understand the "jocks" mentality that seems to support the idea that certain good footballers should be given an education "For free" because they promote the college they attend.
I question how someone with a struggle to understand the basics can be given a "pass" in a subject just because they can play sports real well.
This is how it is sometimes portrayed in American TV, Films and shows.

I understand this is part of the American way.... I just dont understand why?...
But then again, college sports teams are just college sports teams, we dont go overboard on supporting them, they are not that important.
We DO support them, but, their support comes from the fact they MUST show prowess in education first.
University boat race, none of them get a free pass just cos they can row a boat?....

Had to google that.
As its not the town in Switzerland, I guess, then its slang, as in hand-egg, American football?...
Never heard that term before...



I honestly have no idea.

Is it that big that the team earns more than they pay out for it?...
I suspect it is by the way you are posting.
But honestly, over here in UK, we just do not know how much is that much....
Colleges or Universities earning sponsorship or even getting a "gate" for their sports team is just not what happens here.

(Where "Gate" is the entrance fee to watch a game...)

We have different cultures when it comes to College sports.

We have lower league football teams that people will go to watch, but they are not affiliated with Universities.


The idea that it would cross to getting the same from "watching" people play computer games does not work out...
We have no space in our conciousness as to why anyone would even be interested in watching others play (computer) games.
There are online channels where people do tutorials on how to play a game to the best effect...
But as a spectator event?...

And the world turns, has it turned that far.

College sports is huge in America in a way that I think it is difficult to understand for someone from the UK that is not aware of it.

Here we more or less ignore it, the only regularly covered college sport are the Boat race and the Varsity rugby match between Oxford and Cambridge, then only because the BBC Governers and the Givernemnt is made up of Oxbridge types.
In America some colleges make almost $100 million, from their various sports teams in ticket sales and media rights, it is well worth them investing in their college sports teams.

If you dont create the thread, I will?.....

Why is it untestable, and can anyone else do it.

do the coin toss? I'm sure people can. it is really no harder than juggling a club

the dice will be untestable because of the extra variables involved - with the coin, I caught it, so there was no bounce. dice always bounce. unless they get lucky and find someone who has practiced with dice, it is just going to be way too long term to learn from scratch.