Summary of eSports: Are Pro Gamers the Athletes of the Future?

The first question in you exam set requires you to provide a summary of text 1, “eSports: Are Pro Gamers the Athletes of the Future?”,  written by  Michael Douglas Smith and published on the Sport Techie website, November 19, 2014.

The author discusses the growing popularity of eSports, or electronic video gaming and whether these activities can be considered a real sport or not. He analyzes the definition of sports and notes that some consider skill and competition to be enough to deem an activity a sport.

The writer argues that, according to traditional definitions, a sport must involve physical activity and, for this reason, eSports cannot be cataloged as sports, as video game players do not engage in any substantial physical effort. Micha...