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Topic: Should Esports be considered sports? In recent year, electronic sports (eSports) have been increasingly spread and gained a high position in the field of sport and entertainment It is not hard to find information about the tournaments or professional eSports athletes However, that does not mean people fully understand and appreciate the nature of eSports Since it not require the amount of physical activity regular sports do, people may have thought that gaming is not a “real sport.” Regardless of the lack of physical activity, it requires the same amount of effort and dedication as regular sports Despite that difference, they still have many similarities such as necessary qualities, training and high income Many people still believe that to become an eSport athlete, who just play game really good, but it is not the truth One of the most important factors to become professional eSport athletes is passion and determination In Vietnam, to be a athlete, a casual gamer have to overcome barriers, preconception of social and family about games For a long time, any games would be considered useless and harmful Parents always want their children to follow traditional industries to have stable future Another quality that eSport athletes need is collectivity (teamwork) It decide the success or failure in the league For League of Legend, there are two team, five players each team One person holds a position and they must work together to destroy enemy’s turrets to win (Jerry Adjoyi) Collectivity of a team not only showed while playing, but also to express in real life Members of an eSports team often live in the same place, living under the same mode can be certain to spend a lot of time for exercise This also means that they will be away from family and friends for many months of the year Understanding, sympathy, sharing among the members of an eSports team is an important factor to help gamer relax By helping players to improve their skills, eSports make them more mature and advanced To succeed in eSports, player need percent talent and 99 percent comes from hard work However, Electronic Sports require athletes to have a scientific exercise regimen Unlike conventional games, eSport athletes train from basic skills to complex skills to ensure that they will not take unfortunate mistake during the match There is a number on which player can base to practice and improve their abilities It is APM (Action per minute) “Actions Per Minute or Active Per Minute is the number of actions (such as selecting units or issuing an order) completed within a minute of gameplay in 聽 real-time strategy games, most notably in 聽 StarCraft” (Wikipedia) A professional athlete is able to play with three hundred APM To it, he or she have to train for a long time However, a player not only need skills, but also culture-social knowledge, language and behavioral skills They will help athletes become more complete because their life does not end in four wall and computer The path to become eSport athletes is not easy To archive the peak of glory, player must go through days and months of hard training, compete drastically to assert his position If Park Ji Sung, a dwarf guy from Korea can play for Manchester United, why you can not expect a Vietnamese can be a member of Fnatic or SK Telecom Last, another reason make eSports similar to sports is amount of money that professional athletes and their team can earn Each year, the League of Legend (LoL) in Korea received 57.714 dollar and the StarCraft II received 39.106 dollar (2015) Lee Sang Hye-ok (Faker) is the best LoL player He is considered Leonel Messi in football or Michael Jordan in basketball He earns 200,000 dollar per year when he was twenty Beside salary, professional athletes also have income from grants and bonuses from the tournament In 2015, the champions of eSport tournaments received reward up to 18 million dollar, more than casual sport such as rugby or tennis (thanhniennews) It shows that eSports is not useless and harmful as people think In summary, eSport help players to persue their dream and develop their ability By training, players not only become professional athletes, but also get useful knowledge In addition, the development of eSports provides opportunities for athletes to be rich The evidence absolutely shows that in developed countries, eSport play an important part in entertainment industry and it is time for people to have positive thought about them References Jerry Adjoyi, (2015, Feb 16) Should Esports be considered sports? Word Press Retrieved from https://cccwriters.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/should-e-sports-beconsidered- a-sport/ Viet Tam (2015, Aug 19) What are electronic sports? Thanh Nien News Retrieved from http://game.thanhnien.vn/esports/The-thao-dien-tu-la-gi-9406.html Wikipedia, (2011, May 31) Action per minute Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions_per_minute ... Should Esports be considered sports? Word Press Retrieved from https://cccwriters.wordpress.com/2015/02/16 /should- e -sports- beconsidered- a-sport/ Viet Tam (2015, Aug 19) What are electronic sports? ... Manchester United, why you can not expect a Vietnamese can be a member of Fnatic or SK Telecom Last, another reason make eSports similar to sports is amount of money that professional athletes and... (thanhniennews) It shows that eSports is not useless and harmful as people think In summary, eSport help players to persue their dream and develop their ability By training, players not only become professional