Professional Gamers Are Just As Physically Taxed As Athletes, Study Finds

It’s the debate that will seemingly never die: is esports real esports? Should professional gamers be considered athletes, or even semi-athletes considering the amount of hours they have to train, research and prepare? Should video games even be associating the most proficient of its kind with the word sports at all?

One university has been investigating that subject with a little more academic rigour, and their findings are set to add more fuel to the already heated debate.

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