Faced with the man's unreasonable harassment.
Jiang Siming remained surprisingly calm. "Every competitive sport was born from the hands of those people you call 'idle toys that ruin ambition.' Take soccer and basketball, for example. When they were first developing, who would have thought they were sports? In the eyes of teachers back then, children who played soccer and basketball and became absorbed in them were simply the culprits who refused to study and were letting toys ruin their ambition. Could it be that every competitive event was recognized by the world from the very beginning?"
Everyone present nodded repeatedly as they listened, feeling that Jiang Siming made perfect sense.
Every new sport started out misunderstood before gradually gaining acceptance from the world.
Why should esports be any different?
Although esports did not require outstanding physical fitness, they did require the brain. What they needed was coordination between the body and the mind.
And this kind of coordination was often more professional than that required by any other sport. The micro-level operations and mental strain involved were things other physical sports could not match.
The male reporter sneered. "Simply becoming addicted to games doesn't count as competition!"
Jiang Siming immediately shot back, "Then let me ask you this: If someone simply loves playing basketball or soccer, does that automatically make it competition or a sport? There are so many people around the world who play basketball and soccer—how many of them can become professional athletes?"
"Don't they all play along, study professional athletes' techniques, worship their skills, and become passionately obsessed with them? Isn't esports the same? It doesn't matter if everyone can't become a professional player. That doesn't stop them from learning about it and loving it!"
"Don't look down on any competitive event. Just because you don't like