I love how the EU doesn't recognise e-sport as sports because the games are privately owned and controlled by corporations. Like, I'm not joking, that's such a great stance!
A corporation running a game can ruin someone's career by making a balance change to the game. They can somewhat fix matches that way by pushing an update just before a tournament.
For videogames to qualify as an actually sports, they'd have to be standards-based rather than implementation-based. Ergo, I can play chess on any kind of board with any pieces so long as they meet the criteria for the rules of the game. But videogames aren't built like that. They're implementation-based and owned by private corporations which makes them really unfit as sports.
@Reina I don't buy the reasoning behind "can fix matches somewhat" (as opposed to the other points). You can do that in things-that-are-considered-sports by changing parts of the environment that are not specified in the rules. Obviously, with any sane governing body, that will cause the rules to be made more specific, but that actually relies on the "specification" being mutable.
