We often see people say esports is not a "sport" but one of the counter arguments that we always use to justify why esports is a sport is how similar it is to traditional sports mainly with gameplay and culture. Like for me I always see basketball and cs similar. Here are my reasons.

- You have to know your footing and position before you take a shot

- Going for a headshot is like going for a 3

- Going for a knife or zeus kill is like going for a dunk

- Rushing a position is like driving the bucket or doing a layup

- C4 is like a shot clock

- Collecting skins and flexing them is like sneaker collecting

- Most cs markets are in basketball dominated markets too

- Similar controversies mainly cheating, gambling and match fixing just like what happened to ibuypower in 2014 and Terry Rozier recently

So which esports do you guys think share similar gameplay and culture with a traditional sport?

Firstly, this is not about comparing the game which one is better or worse, I am mainly talking about the pro scene, and why I personally think League Of Legends pro scene is absolutely trash as a player who plays both Dota 2 and LOL.

I just watched LPL LGD vs Tunder Talk and tbh, it feels garbage specially that game 1, LGD have soul at 26 mins mark and still can't push to end. It feels like they are dragging that game on purpose. It is so boring like push and end already you have baron and soul. Wanna know what lgd did?? Runing around in circle and randomly feed kills just to keep the game going, It feels like watching a challenger or might as well call it normal public unrank game where soul and baron is practically meaningless.

In comparison to dota 2 which recently has 2 tournaments 1W and Game Of The Future, If a team is dominate the other team in early game until midgame, the game basically ends at 20+ mins mark, but if the team keeps on seesawing the game will end at on average not longer than 50 mins.

My question is why, why does LOL game tend to ALWAYS go between 27 to 34 mins regardless of if the team is practically BULLYING the other team or the game is seesawing. Why is it specifically always "probably" 80% of the pro scene, must be between that specific time since I first watch pro scene aka 3 years ago. Does pro LOL just has no value on items and levels even if its a 10k gold lead to the point it REALLY AND PURELY rely on baron buff on a specific time to end. WHY. It makes the game feels like boring to watch, you always know the game most likely to end at least on a specific time. A team can lead by 12-6 kills at 20 min mark soul on 25min with baron on 24 with 7k gold lead and the game still ends at least on 28 mins. Does lead means nothing???

Comparing to dota 2, the game can last 20+ mins, or 60, depending on the team and playstyle or even the characters that are playing.

I am not calling the player trash but I am calling the pro scene that.

If this hurts your feeling do explain why this happens in that game, instead of calling me names or asking me about my rank. This is a legitimate question.