E-sports is also a profession, similar to non-video game competitions such as chess. On June165438+1October 18, 2003, the State Sports General Administration officially approved e-sports as the 99th official sports competition. In 2008, the State Sports General Administration changed e-sports into the 78th official sport.
E-sports is a contest of wisdom between people through the Internet and computers, which can exercise and enhance the reaction ability of participants and cultivate strong will and quality. As a new competitive event, it has conquered thousands of fans with its unique charm. It advocates and publicizes the spirit of e-sports culture of hard work, healthy intelligence and harmonious cooperation;
Leading the fashion and healthy trend of electronic entertainment culture; It makes people break away from the contest of pure physical quality and turn to more contests of psychological skills. This enables many people who have no advantage in physical fitness to stand on the world-class sports podium. The State Sports General Administration approved it on June 5438+065438+ 10/8, 2003, and e-sports officially became the 99th sports event in China.
What is e-sports? The definition of e-sports by the State Sports General Administration is: "E-sports is an intellectual confrontation between people using high-tech hardware and software equipment as sports equipment. Through exercise, participants' thinking ability, reaction ability, physical and mental coordination ability and willpower can be exercised and improved, and team spirit can be cultivated. "
It can be seen that e-sports mainly includes three basic elements: first, electronics, where the meaning of Cyber refers to the influence of computerization or electronic computers; Second, competitive sports, including virtual and fictional sports; The third is the competition between people. E-sports is a sports activity that uses computers to create a virtual platform through the network (local area network) and compete according to unified competition rules. From this, we can think that e-sports is a combination of computer technology and competitive sports, and e-sports only digitalizes traditional competitive sports with the help of information technology platform.
The significance of e-sports:
As far as the connotation of e-sports is concerned, its spirit of pursuing Excellence and surpassing itself is consistent with the spirit of traditional sports. With the popularity of the Internet and the rapid development of information technology, many new sports events and sports models have been born. E-sports is an important embodiment, especially the continuous development of its concept and connotation, which plays a unique role in enriching and developing sports events and promoting sports spirit. E-sports meets people's diverse needs for physical fitness, and plays an important role in guiding teenagers' all-round and healthy development.