Video Games Should Be Considered A Sport Research Paper

Do you think that video games should be considered a sport? We certainly think they should. Video games should be considered a sport because they can be considered a mind sport like chess. Mind sports are basically anything that the players have to use strategy to figure out how to beat another person. Also, a sport is considered anything with a large fan base and also if the sport would have other competitors to play against during the sport. Which means that video games can be considered a sport. Lastly, they can be considered a sport for the reason that there are also “sports” like chess, which is using strategy just as much as video games do.
Some things people say against video games being a sport are that it’s not using any skills or
physical activity, but if chess can be considered a sport then some sports don’t have to use physical activity. Also, it does take some amount of skill to be good enough at video games to be able to be very competitive at them. We think that video games should be considered a sport.
In conclusion the reasons why we think this, is that they could be considered a mental sport, they have a large fan base and people who can play them very well, and there are already sports like chess which are very similar to playing video games.