🧵 e-sports belong here
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jan 2024 17:50:43 UTC No. 182368
I never see e-sports threads on this board and this puzzles me. As an immortal ranked Valorant athlete and semi-pro Valorant coach, e-sports are arguably one of THE most extreme sports. Imagine keeping laser focus, all your senses primed, for 40-80 minutes STRAIGHT. Chad thinks he’s the superior athlete because he has bigger muscles, but I know I have 100x the focus, coordination, reflexes, and endurance by virtue of my training. I literally need to eat 3000+ calories a day just to support my brain energy.
>inb4 just post to /vg/
/vg/ is full of casuals. Is it too much to ask that my sport get the respect it deserves on this board? By that logic, martial “artists” should post to /fit/ instead. Brawling like an ape does not make you an athlete, Chad McNeurotrauma.
Sage at Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:32:34 UTC No. 182381
>>182368
B8, OP is fag and video games are not sports. Nobody else reply to this thread.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:22:27 UTC No. 182439
>>182381
Besides the antagonistic tone the other big flag of it being bait is that any serious e-sports athlete these days does do actual physical training afk and needs training calories for more than just "brain energy."
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:31:39 UTC No. 182449
epic b8 bro
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:13:24 UTC No. 182466
>>182439
>They need calories
>They're bulking for brain power
LMFAO that's the funniest cope I've heard for someone being a fat fuck. They bulk because they're anti-social celebates who have nothing better to do with their time. You know how I know this? How else could someone even figure out that they're good at video-games if it weren't for the MASSIVE amount of free time they had due to having no social life. People who excel at sports do so because they have the opportunity to win prestige in school. Gamers are a joke. Delete this thread
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:03:14 UTC No. 182469
>>182466
You need calories to fuel physical training while maintaining mass; the fact that your mind went straight to bulking and being fat suggests you're a fatty who doesn't train anything and doesn't belong on /xs/. The majority of professional e-sports competitors are physically active and non-obese:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar
>How else could someone even figure out that they're good at video-games if it weren't for the MASSIVE amount of free time they had due to having no social life.
Kids socialize online these days. The physical third place is dead.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:45:34 UTC No. 182481
>>182469
>You need calories to fuel physical training while maintaining mass
>Thinks moving buttons fast is "physical training"
>unironically cites research on a bait thread
>projects bmi onto me
I love this website.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:48:31 UTC No. 182487
>>182439
Gaming is “actual physical training”. Just because I don’t bench 100 pounds every day doesn’t mean I don’t exercise.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:51:11 UTC No. 182488
>>182481
COPE and SEETHE, imbecile. 1v1 me on Ascent, you can talk all the shit you want if you win (you won’t).
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:54:46 UTC No. 182490
>>182488
I don't play games. I lift. I train. I bulk. You want me to seethe? Fool. I already do. Every morning when I wake up and have yet to fulfill my potential for the day, I seethe. It's what makes me push through my hardest days and my lowest moments. I can do better. I have somewhere to be in the distant future. So yes anon. I will seethe. I will breathe and seethe and conquer. I will conquer. I do not forgive. I do not forget.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:58:56 UTC No. 182491
>>182490
YWNBASP (you will never be a shonen protagonist)
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:47:29 UTC No. 182598
>>182491
anon that was a bit harsh don't you think
Sage at Sun, 14 Jan 2024 06:39:10 UTC No. 182750
>>182368
>As an immortal ranked Valorant athlete and semi-pro Valorant coach
>immortal
your fucking garbage, my left nut can hit immortal in that shit game, because it did. if hitting immortal in the easiest game ever makes someone a semi pro coach, that should give you an idea of how much a joke the current gaming "esports" landscape is (thanks kovaak [trash faggot] for making retards think they are intelligent for aiming in bullshit scenarios). yes i fell for bait, because these people are real sadly.
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:02:25 UTC No. 182769
>>182368
>immortal
if you havent played with yay in your ranked games you aint goodJPYV
TOUCH GRASS at Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:20:42 UTC No. 182774
>>182368
maybe you are just not physically fit to do any actual sprots and u just play video games all day
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:45:20 UTC No. 182776
>>182368
You're a fag & Valorant sucks.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:07:18 UTC No. 183260
When you're heavily into a competitive game its all you care about. You can't even focus on other things in life and it feels like it's all that matters
When you fall out of love with the game after a few years you barely remember it exists and your achievements feel empty. Yeah I have good memories but I wish I invested my time/youth in something more rewarding (exercise, combat sports)
The golden age of gaming is over anyway. 2003-2008 you could justify playing counter strike all day because it was actually awesome
Now everything is pozzed
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:09:48 UTC No. 183282
Extreme sport athletes are bringing themselves actively in dangerous situations. A small mistake and they might loose their life. In Valo the only thing you loose, that matters is lifetime.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:28:27 UTC No. 183413
While I agree that the competitive nature of gaming could be called a sport but you also have to qualify it with “e-“ before “sports” which we don’t have to do with skating, or boarding, mma, climbing, etc. I think esports belongs better in /sp/ or in a general on /v/, and you’ll have better conversations there compared to here. If you have to make a whole thread to soapbox for your hobbies place here, chances are it doesn’t belong here
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:38:23 UTC No. 183480
>>182368
It's a disgrace that faggots like you have the gall to attach the word 'sport' to their spergfest virgin games where they larp as someone who's not a toal degenerate waste of space.
E-Sports. What a fuckin joke.
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:24:02 UTC No. 184177
Anonymous at Sat, 3 Feb 2024 06:09:01 UTC No. 185304
>>183282
Right, because surfing and skating are so “dangerous”. Give me a break. It’s extreme because it takes a great amount of physical and mental discipline. The mere fact that it simulates violence should qualify it.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Feb 2024 06:42:55 UTC No. 185520
>>185304
no, the real life danger is what makes it extreme, the physical part is what makes it a sport. Otherwise it is just competitive gaming.
video games where the consequence for messing up is potential for injury, definitely extreme, still not a sport.
running down a walking path, definitely a sport, not extreme.
Running on the edge of a cliff where if you mess up there is a potential for injury or death.
extreme sport.
I would say that most often what seperates extreme sports from regular sports is the risk of serious injury or death, or the frequency of injury.
there are also different levels of extreme. wingsuiting is probably at the top and skiing/rockclimbing/mountain biking are more towards the lower end, because while there is still risk it is largely mitigated and you probably won't die doing it.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Feb 2024 08:53:27 UTC No. 185524
>>182368
this is a bot thread that gets posted every week
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Feb 2024 16:28:50 UTC No. 185555
>>185524
Look at the OP date. This thread has been around for weeks.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Feb 2024 16:38:55 UTC No. 185560
>>185555
OP here. Kys.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Feb 2024 18:27:00 UTC No. 185579
>>185560
OP here. Ligma nuts.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:10:12 UTC No. 187163
>>182368
esports probably should be here, but fuck off because i dont like you
>valorant
valorant is shit and has a cringe community of edaters and troons + cant say nigger without getting instabanned
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:16:43 UTC No. 187291
>>185555
yeah I fucked up, I thought I was looking at /fit/ when I posted that
>>187163
never played valorant but I have a one year chat mute on leeg for saying nigger in post game chat
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:34:21 UTC No. 187316
>>185579
OP here I’m trans btw
Anonymous at Sun, 25 Feb 2024 20:16:13 UTC No. 188322
>>187291
Valorant isn't an e sport game and takes no skill
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 17:43:30 UTC No. 189874
>>182368
No, they don't. E-sports and gaming is a waste of your life.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:07:04 UTC No. 193727
the worst time of my life i would stay up for hours drinking whiskey out the bottle and playing league of legends
i was hard stuck silver
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:55:50 UTC No. 193906
>>193727
same but I got to plat at least
i fucking hate league