Four Kings, Schroet Kommando Go CS Movie Crazy

Simon Bysshe writes "Intel have just put online my latest film for them about competitive computer gaming, featuring a Counter-Strike match between Four Kings & the world's #1 Counter-Strike team Schroet Kommando. The movie includes pre-game interviews, animated tactical rundowns, live 'shoutcasted' games & finally a post-match analysis, and has already been downloaded over 40,000 times - we're trying to establish gaming as an entertaining spectator sport."

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Re:First suggestion

[Cecil]

A sport requires athletic exertion by definition.

Bzzzt! Try again!

sport
n.

1.
a. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
b. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.

Fishing, Hunting, Darts, Bowling, Auto Racing, and Golf, to name just a few, are all commonly considered to be sports. I apologise in advance for offending people who participate in these sports, but none of them involve really significant athletic exertion. If you do it competitively and professionally, there's no reason not to consider it a sport. It doesn't have to revolve around physical activity, and I don't think it should even have to involve physical activity.