Normally appearing on the cover of ESPN Mag is a huge milestone for someone’s career,
especially for someone who’s risen so quickly to the top.
But once again, Twitch streamer ninja is facing a ton of backlash, because he’s appeared
on the cover of ESPN Magazine because he’s not what most people consider a professional
athlete.
I’m going to tell you everything you need to know, here for you on IO.
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Why or why not.
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On inform overload, We try to cover as much news about your favorite internet personalities
as possible, and one person who almost always gets people talking is Ninja.
Tyler Blevins, AKA Ninja has had a pretty amazing couple of years.
Before 2017, he was a nobody.
But back in March, his fame skyrocketed after he played fortnite with Drake.
That broadcast had almost 600 thousand viewers and set a new twitch record.
He broke his own record a few months later with 667 thousand streams.
Since then he’s become known as a legendary fortnite streamer, its difficult to find a
12-year-old who doesn’t know who he is.
He’s pretty much one of the only gamers out there that has become a mainstream celebrity,
and he's the first twitch streamer to reach 10 million followers.
Having 10 million followers means that he’s raking in a ton of cash too.
Ninja makes close to half a million dollars a month on average, but he said it actually
could be much closer to one million dollars a month when you consider other things like
sponsorships and big donations.
The biggest donation he’s ever received on one of his streams is 40 thousand dollars.
And now ninja has become the first professional gamer to appear on the cover of the renowned
sports publication, ESPN Magazine.
Ninja posted on Twitter on Tuesday that he’s excited to be the first professional gamer
to be featured on the cover.
The issue is set to hit newsstands on September 21st.
Usually, only huge sports stars appear on the cover of ESPN Mag.
This means that the line between E-sports and sports is becoming blurred, and people
are not happy about it.
Sports fans everywhere are rallying against ESPN’s choice to put a gamer on the cover
of their sports magazine.
One person said, If I could dislike this tweet it would be this garbage.
Another said Still not a sport, bill gates out earns me too, he’s not an athelte either.
That being said, there are a lot of people who are happy about this milestone.
Twitter user Doug Sheppard tweeted.
For those saying it's not a sport, your right, its an esport.
It’s a team-based competitive atmosphere where skill, talent and daily hours of dedication
are required.
Not many people can do it and it has a larger following than most sports.
ESPN are smart for getting on board.
So, should esports be considered a sport?
Lets look at the facts.
In the world of Esports, there are competitors, sometimes hundreds of them.
Esports are starting to be introduced to colleges in the form of an intercollegiate athletic
sport, and some colleges have even made athletic departments where they grant scholarships
to esport atheletes.
Yes, you can now get a scholarship to a post-secondary institution if you love gaming.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary definition of sports is as follows, an activity
involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another
or others for entertainment.
Esports is definitely considered a form of entertainment.
It is definitely competitive and it involves multiple participants.
It does require a lot of skill.
But then there's the question of physical exertion.
Esports are not traditional sports in that…well…gamers aren’t necessarily sports athletes who train
their bodies for a competition.
Even though streaming for 6 hours at a time takes a tole on you, and there is some physical
exertion its nothing compared to the physical exertion professional athletes go through.
You cant get injured playing esports, unless you do something really really dumb.
When professional athletes get injured, it can ruin their whole lives.
And once they're past their prime, they can't do anything else.
Many professional athletes are also born great, or the capacity to be great.
Many of them train starting from childhood, it’s their whole life.
What do you guys think, are esports a sport?
I personally feel like esports are not a sport.
If cheerleading and dancing aren’t considered sports, then esports shouldn’t be considered
a sport.
Maybe I’m biased because I’m a girl but it takes a lot of physical skill to become
a professional dancer, yet dancers are not considered athletes.
But that’s just my opinion.
Let me know what you think in those comments but for now its time to do some comment replies.
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