{"id":3767,"date":"2020-12-02T07:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obilesky.com\/2020\/12\/02\/up-for-debate-are-esports-fans-also-sports-fans\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T07:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:13:53","slug":"up-for-debate-are-esports-fans-also-sports-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/?p=3767","title":{"rendered":"Up for Debate: Are eSports fans also Sports fans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.obilesky.com\/game\/1815\/1rkub5tlni0.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p> System Requirements <\/p>\n<p>Low vs Ultra Screenshots<\/p>\n<p>GPU Performance Chart<\/p>\n<p>CPU List That Meet System Requirements<\/p>\n<p>GPU List That Meet System Requirements<\/p>\n<p>Comments <\/p>\n<p>Rocket League <\/p>\n<p>PC Demand<\/p>\n<p>#100+ <\/p>\n<p>Rate this game<\/p>\n<p>User Rating<br \/>\n7.93<\/strong> user review score. Average score out of 10, based on 99 review scores&#8221; style=&#8221;background: #4db53c&#8221;&gt;<br \/>\n7.93 <\/p>\n<p>Ok<\/p>\n<p>Not Ok<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"ors-thumb-up-20397\" class=\"thumb-btn-20397 thumbUpClean    js--tooltip-item\" data-thumb-val=\"1\" title=\"I think Rocket League is well optimised\" data-gid=\"20397\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p><button id=\"ors-thumb-down-20397\" class=\"thumb-btn-20397 thumbDownClean    js--tooltip-item\" data-thumb-val=\"-1\" title=\"I think Rocket League is not well optimised\" data-gid=\"20397\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Optimisation<br \/>\n8.8<\/strong> optimisation score. Average rating, based on 216 user ratings&#8221; style=&#8221;background: #4db53c&#8221;&gt;<br \/>\n8.8 <\/p>\n<p>With the surging rise of eSports and eSports leagues, there is a general debate on whether eSports are <em>actually<\/em> a sport in their own right. With lots of games emulating certain sporting programs and leagues, the discussion becomes more and more relevant each day. But today I don\u2019t want to talk about the actual Leagues or competitors within them, instead I want to focus on the audience, or the fans so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Gamers and Sportspeople (is that how you call them?) aren\u2019t exactly always considered in the same field. But the audience members are totally different. What I want to know is: can eSports fans enjoy watching sports just as much? Or what about sports fans? Can they enjoy eSports just as much?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take Rocket League for example: essentially it\u2019s soccer\u2026 but with cars. So are Rocket League fans secretly fans of normal football\/soccer? Personally I couldn\u2019t care less about football, which is probably why I\u2019m not that interested in Rocket League. But I\u2019m wondering if there are any Rocket League fans out there who are <em>not <\/em>interested in normal football (I say <em>normal<\/em> football but I mean soccer without cars, which is just soccer. Great now the word <em>soccer<\/em> sounds weird to me. Soccer, soccer, soccer. See? Wait what were we talking about again?). Alternatively if I got a die-hard footie fan in my room and put Rocket League in front of them would they enjoy it just as much as FIFA? Or would I just have a drunk in my house singing strange chants? How long will it be until we&#8217;ve got Rocket League away fans throwing bikes in Dutch canals and smashing up cafes?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an interesting line between eSports and\u2026 well, sports. Whilst eSports allow for a level of engagement and unique imagination unbound by real-world limitations, many people in the sports industry are now heavily interested in eSports. Maybe we can finally have eSports widely recognised as an actual sporting event with just as real stakes and struggles. Or maybe eSports <em>should<\/em> be classed differently, essentially isolating itself in its own field of expertise and training, which would essentially be reflected by how many of the fans are into both sports <em>and <\/em>eSports.<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle scrolling-ad-item\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0052787453283862\" data-ad-slot=\"2741061911\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting one to think about and I would be very intrigued to know how many of you are just as interested in both, or how many of you are bigger fans of either one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System Requirements Low vs Ultra Screenshots GPU Performance Chart CPU List That Meet System Requirements&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,1743,421,183],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","tag-debate","tag-esports","tag-fans","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}