Over the past year, there was some controversy over esports taking place at sports events like the Olympics. Several politicians have viewed their opinions about competitive gaming as a sport in the past. More recently, the German minister of the Interior and Sports Peter Bojt voiced his views at the Congress of Athletes in an interview with Fox Sports in Darmstadt, Germany.
Esports has nothing to do with sports. We need to eradicate the term. I am not sure that finger movements can be considered a sport, even if on the screen something happens. This Congress is devoted to education and health. We want to involve our children in the gym. Of course, the games have their advantages, but they are not related to the sports values.
The aspect of physical sports also applies for esports players who train in the gym to exercise and break away from routine. The practice of teamwork, discipline, training, warming up and mentally preparing for the competition are all common factors between sports and esports.
All those who love esports still go on to promote gaming in a positive light. This year, Riot Games developers and their video game, League of Legends were quite a success at the Game Awards 2018. In fact, the best esports event, the World Championships 2018 broke records with viewers that watched a total of 190 million hours.
The worlds best esports team of 2018 was none other than Cloud 9 League of legends unit for their excellent performance at Worlds defeating Afreeca Freecs 3-0. Add to this, their CS: GO team won over Faze Clan in the Eleague Major Boston. However, Cloud 9 were the winners in 2017, so they had their moment of glory already.
I feel that a squad like Astralis should have received the prize of best team of the year 2018. A Danish unit that has managed to top the gaming leaderboards over past several months. They won tournaments like the Intel Extreme Masters Chicago, FACEIT Major London and Eleague CSGO Premier 2018.
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