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Where's the line between a sport and a game?

Discussion in 'Colosseum' started by Barmy Army, Dec 21, 2006.

  1. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Aldeth, there's no way on this Earth that some John Smith from down the pub would be able to get the better of a professional darts player over the course of a match. Anyone can hit a 180, or a bullseye, just like anyone might get a lucky swing and smack a home run off the worlds best pitcher. But to do it again and again is what splits a professional sports-person from casual player. There's no way you'll beat a darts player in a match without years and years and practice and training.
     
  2. Morgoroth

    Morgoroth Just because I happen to have tentacles, it doesn'

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    American Football and Baseball aren't sports. They are merely two slightly different forms of a competition where the participants test out who can pump most sterioids into themselves before dying. :p
     
  3. Nakia

    Nakia The night is mine Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Hey guys and gals I have a question.

    Is being a Sport better than being a game or event? And if so why?

    My personal feeling is that whatever you do whether playing or watching should be fun. If it isn't fun then it is work. Well professional Sports or sports is work since the players are paid to do it.
     
  4. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot Armed with My Mallet O' Thinking Veteran

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    Typically, I'd agree. But I'm not talking about some John Smith - I'm talking about a good local league player. But just like the local league bowler will every once in a while bowl a perfect 300, every once in a while a local league darts player will put up a perfect score as well. People in local leagues play a few times a week, and are in the same league for years - so they do have years and years of practice.

    All I'm saying is this: Maybe once in 20 tries will a really good casual player be capable of beating a professional in a game - especially games where there is a conceivable perfect score - like darts and bowling. I'm a pretty good poker player, and if I sat down with a professional poker player, he'd probably beat me 19 out of 20 times. With poker, it's a little different, because there is a degree of luck involved, but I can beat the professional on occassion. The point is, I know local league bowlers (i.e., not professionals) who have bowled perfect games. Since professional bowlers average in the 260s, a perfect or near-perfect game will beat them.

    However, in sports like basketball, there's no way the really good local guy can beat LeBron James in a dunk competition, or take AI off the dribble and beat him to the whole, regardless of how much he practices. The guy in the local baseball league may be able to hit a home run, but he can't do it nearly as often as an MLB slugger.
     
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