Thursday, April 5, 2018

How esports redefined athleticism


Whereas our ancient ancestors had to hunt for their food, our modern tribes simply visit the supermarket. With all this free time left on our hands, we invented a pastime: sports. A current trend to simulate sports is to participate in esports, a large industry that’s currently growing up around competitive online gaming. Here’s how esports is taking the ‘sports’ world by storm. Games as sports In the early days of video games, showing off your skills and competing with other players was a matter of going to the arcade and challenging someone in person. At first, it was about…

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