Originally Posted by Zelda

I feel like whether it is what we consider a real sport is irrelevant. We should focus on how likely it is that it will become popular and whether we think that it would be a waste of money (and whether other similar types of entertainment are a waste of money by extension). In terms of likelihood of popularisation we need to think of how impressive it would actually look and whether it is as impressive as competing forms of entertainment as well as the economic viability of it (not in terms of ethics, in terms of whether participants in the sport could turn a profit).