Write 9 pages thesis on the topic esports: a brief history. Regardless of some people’s negative attitude to them, electronic sports are a huge industry that will surely expand even more in the nearest future.

There is a great range of kinds of sports, and it is quite difficult to come to a sole and universally applicable definition of what sport actually is. When it comes to electronic sports, the task is even more difficult. The issue of giving a definition to electronic sports is addressed by Michael G. Wagner in his article titled On the Scientific Relevance of eSports. In his work, he interprets the definition of sports given by a sport scientist Claus Tiedemann and comes with his own definition which defines sports as a “cultural field of activity in which people voluntarily engage with other people with the conscious intention to develop and train abilities […] and to compare themselves with these other people […]” (Wagner). Wagner claims that video games playing should be regarded as a kind of sport as well due to the fact that in eSports people also develop certain skills and abilities and engage in competitions to compare themselves with other people. Overall, the most common definition of eSports is the competitive play of video games in the form of a commercial spectator sport.

What is actually missing in the definition of electronic sports is the physical component characteristic of any kind of sports. This fact is what gives rise to quite serious debates on whether video game playing can be perceived and defined as a kind of sports. However, one should remember that today it is the time of integration of information and communication technology in people’s life. In other words, these days people live in a&nbsp.communication-based society.&nbsp.