In today's age of technology, we as a society either embrace or reject eSports. It's for this reason I feel eSports needs to get a good look into why exactly is it considered a sport.
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"Sport" comes from the Old French desport meaning "leisure", with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being "anything humans find amusing or entertaining".
-Wikipedia
Yes.
It's 2015, that's like asking if "streaming and YouTube is a real job"
Let's be honest there's always going to be certain individuals who will never change their mindset on how things use to be and are to blind to see everything evolving past them.
eSports can be just as exciting as any other sport from the past 100 years. Does everybody like the same sports? No, so I don't think eSports needs the approval of everybody to be considered a "real" sport.
I'm not watching NASCAR or Golf this weekend, I'm watching call of duty pro teams compete at gfinity.
Call it what you will, I would like to keep it out of the Olympics!
Yeah, no. Don't care about technicalities. Esports is not a damn sport. Stop calling it that.
Trying to compare athletes who get up early in the morning to workout to someone who sits on their ass while performing this supposed "Sport" is absurd.
But hey, if it makes you feel better.
No, but does it really matter? People are watching and enjoying anyway and it's only growing so people shouldn't give a damn wither or not it can be called a "sport"