Do you consider ITG a sport?

Zarkonis · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2005

I mean i do, but all my friends say "Its just a stupid video game" So what do you guys think?

J. S. Mill · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

Not yet.
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Shippo · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject:

Not sure...but most likely not really a sport...

Synaesthesia · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:59 am Post subject:

No, I consider it a video game.
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milinko959 · Trick Member Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Location: Mullica, NJ

Sure it is a sport! Hell it's more physically demanding that any other sport I've played.

Rodent · Trick Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005

"Machine Dance" is an official intarnational Dance Sport approved by the IDO (International Dance Organisation) since March 1st, 2006.

Considering Dancing as a sport,
and seeing that IDO only approved "In the Groove" and "Cobalt Flux" as official sport equipment for "Machine Dance",
i tell you:

YES, ITG is not only considered a sport,
Actually it IS a sport!

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Synaesthesia · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

J-CHO VITAL Z · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

It is the best sport that exists
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DJZylch · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject:

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Asymptote · Trick Member Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Location: Alloway, NY

Not a sport. Sorry. In the same way Halo isn't a sport or Pokemon isn't a sport.
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XMaxX · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

I don't consider ITG a sport.
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Karl Popper · Trick Member Joined: 03 Mar 2005

Why not? Seems to me that it meets all the criteria necessary to be a sport. Being a sport and being a video game aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

0rion · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

Well, if Texas Hold 'em, Golf, Bowling, and Pool are considered sports, then hell yeah.

After all, if ESPN considers a card game a sport because it has stat tracking, then they should take a gander at DDRecall.com sometime.
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Marq(uistadorous) · Trick Member Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Location: Arvada, CO

That's a good question. I think I would call it a REALLY REALLY REALLY awsome, unique, and a completely new genre of video games

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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject:

I think that it is not a sport. It's just a rhythm and music game that has its player act physically (if they want *cough* CCR).
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Tyrgannus · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject:

When was the last time you went to a tap-dancer and called tap-dancing a sport?

Tap rocks, it's physically demanding and catchy.
However, tap is an art form.

The more you think about, the more you'll realize that ITG and tap-dancing have a lot in common. Thus, I stand that ITG transcends the status of videogame and becomes an artform.

However, it doesn't quite count as a sport. It could exist as a sport if all the major cities took it seriously and funded professional DDR/ITG teams that had seasons and eventually led to a Superbowl-like thing (where Mike and Kevin would duke it out lol) But seriously, that's never going to happen. It still stands as just an artform, and not even a widely accepted one at that.
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Asymptote · Trick Member Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Location: Alloway, NY

lol curling
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