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These ideas can very well be found in esports. The competitive nature of esports fulfills the first two points of the Olympic idea: See who is the best & show what you can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rules tend to be better observed in esports than in classic sport since all games are completely electronically monitored, recorded and, if necessary, also analyzed subsequently.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Sport connects and esports as well. Esports players from all over the world meet at tournaments and play peacefully against and with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Computer Nerds or Rock Stars?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
E-athletes – hand on your heart: who doesn’t think of the pubescent nerd without friends who crawl into his fantasy world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A look at Asia proves the opposite. Countries like China or Japan, which are a few years ahead of Central Europe in terms of technology, show what the future may look like: esports players are celebrated in sold-out arenas in front of tens of thousands of people like rock stars or professional footballers in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even players who do not belong to the absolute top have provided financially, have groupies, fans, are advertising faces, sell their own fashion labels like CR7, and use professional management in the background for marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you look at the development of digitization and technologization in conjunction with the steadily growing importance of esports, this image of the gamer doesn’t seem so surreal anymore, does it? People, wake up! It is very much possible that this is the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The question ‘Is esports a sport or not?’ is about as old as the first esports tournaments themselves. Here you can find out why this question has remained unanswered to this day. Esports is the direct competition between human players using suitable video and computer games on various devices and digital platforms under fixed rules. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betting-guides"],"yoast_head":"\n
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