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In essence, E-sports leagues appear to be trying to make gaming appear to be a sport without actually making it into one. Like the addition of coaches in MLG games like Gears of War and Halo. That seems like a totally ludicrous addition to professional gaming and one that doesn’t even make it more like a sport. Why does a gamer need a coach?
To make gaming in to a sport, they should make organizational changes. Let’s continue to use MLG as an example. A Halo 3 team in MLG should have to be sponsored by a corporation or person. A sponsor doesn’t just pay for trips to Meadowlands and provide you cool gaming rigs. That individual should own the team and they make the roster changes. If Ogre 1 and related web-site Ogre 2 do not like Walshy any more, too bad. They don’t have a say, the sponsor does. Teams shouldn’t be just a group of friends that got together one day and have played together since. They should be solid foundations that will exist years from essentially, with our without it’s current player roster.
They should implement a regular season. Instead of going to a handful of tournament events or competing in some online ladder, the teams involved in the season are set at the beginning of the season. No more can teams join or leave once the season is underway. Thus, schedules are set for each team. In the event that you are scheduled to play a team, you go to that location and play them. Real sports teams and players travel a lot. It seems gamers sit at home training for the next event. You train during the off-season in a sport, and play throughout the season. Why would competitive play be held online when you have network issues, potential cheating, and lag? It will not make sense. So there’s no reason they shouldn’t be traveling around the country to play their next scheduled opponent.
Each team would have the same number of games played. After the season is over, playoffs will be seeded and played in the tournament-style events like Meadowlands. That should be how playoffs are executed. Right now it seems they have no relevance at all other than winning you money and giving you points.
There should also be a scouting combine. You can not simply up and join an MLG competition one day. You will have to enter in to a separate league and compete there until you are invited by a team owner to join an MLG team. That would give legitimacy to the league and additionally probably weed out a great deal of want to-be’s and posers because they are not going to want to compete and travel a lot.
Another idea I had for American professional gaming could be to hold state tournaments which would recognize the very best players which live in each state. These players would then meet the requirements to compete on the main MLG or professional circuit. I think something like this will be more feasible than a minor leagues for gaming. And c’mon, who will not like saying aspects such as I went to states in 2009.’
Physicality doesn’t matter
A whole lot of men and women say gaming isn’t a sport because it isn’t physical. I’m not saying this since it is debatable whether or not sports require physical activity. Of course, NASCAR will be considered a sport by some and also the driver just sits there. Bowling is also considered a sport and that involves very little physicality. It’s also debatable whether or not gaming has no physicality in the first place. Gaming requires reaction time and motor skills as well as critical and analytical thinking, just like real sports. I think the real reasons that people say gaming is just not a sport is mainly because of the ones outlined above. It just seems more like a hobby and doesn’t conduct itself in a professional or sports-like manner.
