*Incoming transmission*
I used to be in the world's top 1000 in StarCraft 2 back in season 1 as Terran...then I found riding lol
But on a serious note, StarCraft 2, League of Legends, Defense of the Ancients 2, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, StarCraft ...the list goes on, can all be made sports. Maybe other people here have different views or definitions of what a "sport" is but frankly that doesn't matter. What matters is what the public agrees on and every game I mentioned up there has become an e-sport. StarCraft 1 and Counter-Strike made this all possible.
I grew up where playing video games was associated with "you'll never get a girl friend". Now these people who "won't get girl friends" are playing $1,000,000 tournaments split five ways. Hell, I think there was a $2,000,000 one when DoTA 2 first launched.
The day where North Americans view e-sport athletes in the same light as they do their sport counterparts is coming because those price pools are only getting bigger. And you know what...the damn girls are coming too lol Look at Korean StarCraft tournaments!
No offense Paul, but the nerd jokes have been rolling at us since we were in elementary school. I'm sure they strike a chord with anyone that grew up in that environment....
............and for the record, hot girls play video games but a lot of them are Asian and racialist and only want Asian p3n0r.