Esports are sports, just overinflated rounds of pong as sports are overinflated rounds of catch, what is wrong with a pong tournament, ping pong is in the olympics. ESPN broadcasts cup stacking, and owns a math-based news site, competitive video gaming should be in its programming as competitive card gaming is as they broadcast poker world championships, and video gaming is not just memorization, as is a spelling bee also broadcast. All games should get equal recognition I hope that one day espn will broadcast a capture the flag tournament on equal footing with air hockey, pool, pong, super smash bros, hunger dungeon, american football, soccer*, and catch. All games are equal, from snakes/chutes and ladders, to chess, monopoly, hockey pokey, baseball, cricket, brockinian ultra cricket, hockey, rock-paper-scisors, and tic tac toe.
*to avoid confusion for international audiences the web randomly assigns (looking at you pokemon blog w/ majority french audience.
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