The Problem With Esports

    Esports have been gaining in popularity recently and some of their competitions have even been televised on ESPN.  However there is one main problem with esports, it is not a sport.  There is nothing athletic about it.  If people want to get together and see who is the best at pretending to shoot people in some game they can feel free to do that, but they should not be trying to pass it off as a sport.  A sport is something that takes actual physical ability to play.  These are more competitions to see who spent the most time indoors.  Also the fact that people would pay to watch other people play video games is mind boggling to me.  If you want to play video games as a hobby that is well and good, but to actually sit and watch someone else do this is absolutely insane.  There are too many people who waste entire days just sitting by themselves playing video games.  They should be going outside and interacting with people.  The rise of esports will only cause more kids to waste their lives playing video games because they think that one day they might be good enough to compete in these competitions.  While many kids today spend countless hours playing actual sports in the hopes of one day playing professionally, at least the vast majority who do not make it professionally are staying in shape and forming good habits for their future.  Kids who play sports are also interacting with other kids whereas kids who play video games are mainly doing so by themselves without any social interaction.  I have also found that kids who play large amounts of video games do not gain all of the social skills that are necessary in order to hold a basic conversation.  Esports can do nothing but detract from the growth of society and will lead to more socially awkward people.