Ice dancing / figure skating is not sport
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Indivara wrote:
So how do you guys define a sport?
Well anything with style points or multiple judges is questionable. Cricket is the ultimate sport
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or snooker and what about darts.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Darts - now that's a sport, requiring as it does highly refined hand-eye coordination, a steady hand and balance, and an extraordinary bladder capacity. I've never been a Master at it, but I've placed well in my fair share of tournaments. I haven't so much out-thrown my competitors as out-drank them, but it's all part of the game strategy.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Darts - now that's a sport, requiring as it does highly refined hand-eye coordination, a steady hand and balance, and an extraordinary bladder capacity. I've never been a Master at it, but I've placed well in my fair share of tournaments. I haven't so much out-thrown my competitors as out-drank them, but it's all part of the game strategy.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Reminds me of my one claim to fame, I used to play a lot of snooker and I once beat Eddie Charlton at Manly Leagues Club in Sydney, what I do tend to brush over the fact that it was 1am and he was thoroughly pissed at the time.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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RyanEK wrote:
I believe a sport is where two or more people are in competition Smile
So how about Ballet? They don't appear in the Olympics, but they still do compete (e.g. Prix de Lausanne). On the same note, so do musical soloists... and some do play with more vigour than some cricketers playing cricket...
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RyanEK wrote:
I believe a sport is where two or more people are in competition
Yeah, I like warcraft, unreal tournament, and even mario kart! now, those are nice sports, don't you agree? Ah, and I did like that on the judges, now I can talk about football (soccer), in fact between more judges a game requires the less you can trust it, why do they need the judges otherwise?. And style points? what's that?!? my life is free from anything with style points. I often find hard to tell if something is art, sport, game or just a kill-time. But for game and kill-time there are more formal definitions, as the in game it has two or more people and one wins at the end. In the kill-time, it's wathever you do alone for your joy... I think :rolleyes:. Ahem... So most sports are games, but are games sports? Now, what about chess, they say it's a sport, isn't it?
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Reply 1: Sport is stupid people spending an inordinate amount of time training to do something that most people do for fun, so that they can score more points at it than other stupid people who spend an inordinate amount of time training to do something that most people do for fun. So ice dancing/figure skating is a sport. Reply 2: What's ice dancing/figure skating?
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RyanEK wrote:
I believe a sport is where two or more people are in competition
Yeah, I like warcraft, unreal tournament, and even mario kart! now, those are nice sports, don't you agree? Ah, and I did like that on the judges, now I can talk about football (soccer), in fact between more judges a game requires the less you can trust it, why do they need the judges otherwise?. And style points? what's that?!? my life is free from anything with style points. I often find hard to tell if something is art, sport, game or just a kill-time. But for game and kill-time there are more formal definitions, as the in game it has two or more people and one wins at the end. In the kill-time, it's wathever you do alone for your joy... I think :rolleyes:. Ahem... So most sports are games, but are games sports? Now, what about chess, they say it's a sport, isn't it?
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Way more of a sport than auto racing is. X|
At least with motor racing there is a clear winner - the guy who went across the line first (assuming no rule infringements). There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable. If you allow that you could end up with something like Synchronised Swimming being a sport! :laugh: Synchronised Swimming is a sport? :omg: Are you sure? :wtf: Oh damn.
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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RyanEK wrote:
I believe a sport is where two or more people are in competition Smile
But this is obviously invalidated if any participant wears makeup or sparkly clothes.
Josh Gray wrote:
But this is obviously invalidated if any participant wears makeup
so football(soccer) isnt a sport! now that I can agree on
Go away and research the subject, analyze the options for and against, understand the problem and them come back when you agree with me.
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it definitely sounds like it might transgress the KSS rule.
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Way more of a sport than auto racing is. X|
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What about that thing where chicks skate next to some weight and rub the ice to make it go faster ? Curling ? Hurling ? I forget.
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At least with motor racing there is a clear winner - the guy who went across the line first (assuming no rule infringements). There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable. If you allow that you could end up with something like Synchronised Swimming being a sport! :laugh: Synchronised Swimming is a sport? :omg: Are you sure? :wtf: Oh damn.
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
OriginalGriff wrote:
There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable.
Well if Nascar was more like a demolition derby we'd have room for style points; but for some reason they tend to frown on giant crashes. :-\
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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OriginalGriff wrote:
There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable.
Well if Nascar was more like a demolition derby we'd have room for style points; but for some reason they tend to frown on giant crashes. :-\
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Dan Neely wrote:
Well if Nascar was more like a demolition derby we'd have room for style points
Should be more like Burnout - then I'll allow style points! :laugh:
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
