[ToRDeathsFang]

In my opinion, for now at least, eSports should be kept out of the schooling system. You go to school to learn pointless Maths, English, History, Science and whatever other knowledge that you're never going to use or you may perhaps use if you continue to Uni. In school, you play normal sport because it makes you FIT and HEALTHY, something that unfortunately eSports does not do.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by DeathsFang

You go to school to learn pointless Maths, English, History, Science and whatever other knowledge that you're never going to use or you may perhaps use if you continue to Uni. In school, you play normal sport because it makes you FIT and HEALTHY, something that unfortunately eSports does not do.

Dude

Maths and Science are absolutely not pointless. No matter what job you have in life, a better understanding of mathematics will make it easier in some way. Many high school students seem to say that (I did in school) but please believe me when I say that is absolutely wrong. Maybe you have a teacher that is boring as shit - many math teachers are. Boring doesn't mean useless though

I learned more maths while I was working (project manager - not exactly something you'd think it would be a big deal for) than I did when I was at school because of how useful it was, and I would have had to put far less effort in then if I had just done it while at school.

[faithHunter]

Originally Posted by Solis

....most major universities in Australia have a starcraft 2 society that is quite large. For instance UQSS has around ~300 members. Not all of them are 'hardcore' and they probably balance out to around 70~ active people in a local community.

Um...Wow. I never knew that the Starcraft II community in Australia was that big.
So yeah, I guess the only problem left is whether esports will interfere with academic endeavors or not. But still, regular sports such as Soccer, Football, Basketball etc has been around in college and they don't seem to majorly affect school that much, and it will most likely also go that way with Starcraft II. I can't seem to find the differences between how those regular sports and Starcraft II clubs affect academic endeavors. If it works out for regular sports, it will most likely work out with e-sports as well.

In school, you play normal sport because it makes you FIT and HEALTHY, something that unfortunately eSports does not do.

What about chess? It doesn't make you fit and healthy, but despite that, it has been around in college as an extracurricular activity/school club at most schools. If chess could work out that well despite not making you fit and healthy, why can't e-sports?

[Akilos]

Well if we think about e-sports in the schooling system wouldn't be that bad at all.
Make a club out of it. I mean it might get the attention of those people who wouldn't be
interested in anything particular might even help those people who are lost and result to
drugs or promote sportsmanship.
It's just a choice whether you wanna play sports or e-sports or you could do both right?