WHats a unheard of sport

[Edwardo Piet]

[Thumpalumpacus]

what is the difference between a Game and a Sport?

As I wrote once in a college essay, a sport is a physical contest of wills, a game is something you can enjoy with beer and the occasional smoke.

[Edwardo Piet]

Chess is a sport and so are eSports. Certainly a contest of wills though.

[Edwardo Piet]

Sports are competitive games played by hardcore players to win money.

[Ravenshire]

game = material accomplishment
sport = spiritual accomplishment.

What the fuck are you on about? Spiritual accomplishment? Put the crack pipe down and take two steps back.

We got a live one here fellas.

[Edwardo Piet]

I like this definition of a game:

Computer game designer Chris Crawford, founder of The Journal of Computer Game Design, has attempted to define the term game[8] using a series of dichotomies:

Creative expression is art if made for its own beauty, and entertainment if made for money.
A piece of entertainment is a plaything if it is interactive. Movies and books are cited as examples of non-interactive entertainment.
If no goals are associated with a plaything, it is a toy. (Crawford notes that by his definition, (a) a toy can become a game element if the player makes up rules, and (b) The Sims and SimCity are toys, not games.) If it has goals, a plaything is a challenge.
If a challenge has no "active agent against whom you compete," it is a puzzle; if there is one, it is a conflict. (Crawford admits that this is a subjective test. Video games with noticeably algorithmic artificial intelligence can be played as puzzles; these include the patterns used to evade ghosts in Pac-Man.)
Finally, if the player can only outperform the opponent, but not attack them to interfere with their performance, the conflict is a competition. (Competitions include racing and figure skating.) However, if attacks are allowed, then the conflict qualifies as a game.

[Alex K]

There's this new sport called "Posting WAYYYYYYYYY too many threads immediately after only just joining some forums"

It's actually a kind of triathlon. The next part of the competition is getting fatally kicked in the nuts for posting too many nonsensical threads after only just joining.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hurling.  And if you think this isn't a sport, try it once.  I played semi-pro rugby for a couple of years, and this game wore ME out.



There's also Competitive Ferret Skinning, but I was unable to find a video.

Boru

[Expired]

[Thumpalumpacus]

Chess is a sport and so are eSports. Certainly a contest of wills though.

Sports are competitive games played by hardcore players to win money.