“Welcome to eSports, or Electronic sports, where those who don’t like physical activity can still be considered athletic for doing nothing but sitting around and pressing buttons!!!”

Isn’t that great? No, not really.

The day that video games — yes video games — are considered a sport, electronic or not, is a day I would’ve rather not seen.

Yes, sports aren’t my forte, but I certainly know I’m not playing a sport when there’s a game in front of me.

Popular game, League of Legends, has taken over and the last four seasons have grown rapidly. We can use the size of growth from this game alone to see the spread of eSports popularity. Even if it is popular with approximately 12 million viewers and players, that does not mean it should be considered any type of sport.

One of the only movements done during a session of the game is clicking a mouse and pressing keys on the keyboard. So please explain — how is this in any way a sport?

Well, according to the definition of eSports, it’s video game competitions that are organized, commonly seen between professionals.

Most of the common video game genres are real-time strategy, fighting, and first-person shooter.

Let’s take this into consideration. If ESPN has aired the League of Legends world finals, there has to be some reasoning. Perhaps it’s because of the views they’d receive. Maybe it’s for the money they could make. Or maybe they really think it’s a sport.

Sure there’s a world series where they get paid to play video games and be the best of that game, but it is NOT a sport. It involves no physical activity. In fact, the only type of activity it requires is thinking and strategy, but so does almost everything else we do on a daily basis. Driving, texting, talking, or even cooking, but are any of those a sport? No.

So, if this isn’t satisfying, here’s a definition of a sport; an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

What was that? Physical exertion? Do video games really have anything of that nature? No, while playing video games — unless it’s the Wii Fit or some type of connect game — you generally sit and play, click and eat. There’s almost nothing physically tiring about gaming.

Yes, there is competition but there’s competition for a lot of things. Bingo is competitive, so are elections and chess. None of those are considered sports. Why? Because there’s no physical activity. Bottom line, eSports are not sports.