Gaming should be taken more seriously and be considered a real sport.

Obviously from reading this I can tell that my opponent has either read my other debate or read one of my opinions. Firstly I will address my opponents comments on piano compared with video games. My opponent says that just because a pianist can play a video game does not mean that it takes no skill. Then my opponent brings up the fact that he/she learned the piece Fur Elise in a month to prove that gaming takes as much skill as piano. To that I say "I'm highly doubtful." How did you know where the keys were? Did you actually have the grade seven book in front of you? Do you even know what a staccato is? Did you use the pedal? Because unless you have a pitch perfect ear you probably were practicing piano for many years before that. Or you were doing the annoying thing that most non piano players do when they play one note at a time and play the same phrase over and over and over again. Either way learning Fur Elise had to come with years of practise or you were doing it with the one note beginner style. Anyways, most voters will not be impressed that you can supposedly play that song. We all know how annoying it is when beginners plink on a piano and play the exact same melody over again. So when my opponent says put a pianist in front of a video game like Dark Souls and watch him fail, that's not exactly a fair comparison. How about, put a pianist who's played all the other Dark Soul games in front of the new one. Then we'll see if he's failed or not. I too could say that I am a very good player at Star Wars Battlefront. In under a month I got to rank sixty and I usually get around forty to fifty kills every round. I learned that in under a month and am usually the best in every round. Being a top pianist takes a lot more than just a month. I'd like to see a gamer try and perform for thousands on a piano. So what my opponent is claiming is that piano and gaming takes the same skill. This is obviously very far fetched and wrong. Here's why, like I said before, I am usually one of the best in every round of Battle Front and that was under a month. Now lets see how long it takes to be the best at piano. Unless your a musical prodigy it should take you about seven or eight years to get to grade eight piano unless your rushing, six years from grade eight to ten unless your rushing and then another two or more years to pass your ARCT. Then you actually have to compete to stick out from all the other pianists. So far compared to a month that's 15 years and up to become the best at at piano. And why is that? Because it takes actual skill to become the best. In every real sport it takes skill to become the best let alone good at it. I said in my other debate, video games are the lazy version of sports. They make everything ridiculously easy. Then my opponent goes on to say that professional gamers have lighting fast reaction skills. So how is clicking a mouse or flicking a joystick a lighting fast reaction? I'm always a bit confused when gamers claim they had "lighting fast reactions" or that they have "mad skills" when they play video games. Here's why, to return an 120 mph serve from a tennis pro you have to lunge you body across the court in less than half a second. You also in less than half a second have to angle your racket so that the ball will go where you want it to go. You also actually have to hit the ball too. All those have to happen in under half a second. Now for video game tennis, you have to press the a button to serve then you flick your joystick left or right to return the serve. All the while, all you're doing is sitting on a chair or couch. So do these professional gamers have "lighting fast reactions"? Because compared to a real sport, gamers reactions are absolutely laughable. Skill is lost in gaming. Do you actually memorize all the plays in Madden 16? Or do you just let the coach pick. Do you even do any playmaking in any of the sports games? Probably not. For first person shooter (FPS) games do you use aim assist? Do you use the little dot in the middle of your screen to aim because if you do, that's not skill. How is mashing buttons as fast as you can to beat up your opponent the same as being a master in karate or judo? Most gamers pride themselves as being amazingly skillful at their game when in reality, they don't have any skill. Gaming is a cheat on sports. It takes sports and drags them down to the skill level of gaming. And what is that skill level? Zero. Anyways, how do you apply button mashing as a skill? Do you put it on your resume? I doubt it, and why is that? Because video games skills do not help you in real life. You can put down that you play sports on a resume, you can put down that you play piano on your resume but putting down that you play video games is actually quite laughable. The fact that literally nobody in real life would count video gaming as a skill should be enough to prove that video games takes little to no skill. I already know that learning to play something does not make you the best at it. I play sports and musical instruments. But gamers have this misconception that just because they play a video game really well that they are at the same level as a real sports player. Also training to be fit does not mean that gaming actually has physical exertion in it. Just because I run everyday does not mean that I am sports pianist. I am a sports person because I play a sport that actually requires physical exertion. I too could tell my opponent from personal experience that video gaming takes no skill. Out of piano, sports and video gaming, video gaming is the only one that I find extremely easy. Video games a based on luck as many people know. Sports are not and nor is piano. "Just make a pianist play Dark Souls, and they will fail miserably." Just make a gamer play Star Wars Fantasy Suite by Jarrod Radnich. https://m.youtube.com... The music is at Musicnotes.com , I doubt any gamer with no prior knowledge of piano would get past the first page in under a month. They would certainly "fail miserably".