[Ydiss]

It may not be a sport but you are more likely to get a serious injury from playing perpeutualy on a PC than you are in a lot of real sports out there.

But then eery single man out there runs the risk of similar RSI to the wrist incidents and that could never be called a sport.

Seriously, though, there is only one thing preventing online/lan gaming events from going 100% commercially competetive and that's the spectators.

Every sport or official game gains credibility as soon as it starts pulling in ratings, and for the time being there's not really a market for watching two pasty white chimps glaring at a monitor and yelling "ghey h4x0rs" insults at eachother.

The general public just don't want to watch a video game for entertainment.

They are designed to be entertaining to play not watch.

Gaming is close to this dream and every day it gets closer, but aside from highly funded LAN party style competitions where you're only gonna make a decent amount of money from winning (or sponsorship, if you're a lucky bastard) there's little out there to call a sport at all.

Fuck me, if I could even be classed as a semi-pro gamer and get a contracted salary higher than my current one you bet I'll be handing in my resignation to my current employer.

I'm no geek but being paid to play games 8 hours a day instead of working in an office?

Shyeh.