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

You say that a pianist can pick up a controller and learn to play a game very quickly, which means there is no skill in video games, and that someone who plays video games would be lost if you put them on a piano. However, I can tell you form personal experience that this is really not the case. Yes, it's easy to learn how to play games, but if they weren't then they wouldn't be fun, and that's the point of games - to be fun. This doesn't mean there is no skill involved however. Just make a pianist play Dark Souls, and they will fail miserably. That's because they can learn how to play, but that doesn't mean they can play well. Dark Souls is a hard game that requires patience and skill to beat. Games played on a professional level such as CS:GO are different, in that people spend a lot of time practising, fine tuning their skills until they have lightning fast reaction times and laser precise accuracy, but the general concept is the same - you can learn to play a game, but that doesn't make you good at it. You have to practice in order to get better at the game. For a short time, I decided to try and learn to play the piano. Within a month or so, I could play Fur Elise. I wasn't amazing and I made mistakes, but the point is that I managed to learn how to play the piano and got better overtime. That's because I spent the time and dedication that was required in order to get better at it. Gaming is the same. Sure, you can learn to play a game pretty easily, but you need to practice and spend time on it to get better. I can still know how to play the piano now, but that doesn't mean I'm good at it. Quite frankly, I'm terrible, but not because I play games, simply because I just didn't have the passion to become a pianist. It wasn't something I ever really got into and thus I just stopped. What I'm trying to say is that you can learn how to do something, or play something, but that doesn't automatically make you good at it. I do want to refrain from insults here, but to be honest, you have to be quite stupid to believe that just because you can easily learn to play some games, that there is no skill in playing them. I may as well say the same thing for a lot of sports. Take discuss for example. All you have to do is throw a disk. Yes, there's a technique behind it, but the general concept is very basic: Throw a disk as far as you can. However, any athlete who does discuss will easily beat you by far because they practice, fine tune their skills and get better. Before you bring up the point of there being no physical skill needed, read this. Whilst this may be true, that does not mean you don't have to be fit. You need to have a healthy body if you want to play professionally, or well at all to be honest, because if you are overweight, you are going to get hot and tired faster than someone who is fit and has a healthy body. This slows your reaction times and leads to bad decision making, which is very detrimental to your performance in a game, especially at a professional level. E-Sports players cannot afford slower reaction times than their opponents, or bad decision making, as even a micro-second can make the difference, and a bad decision can lead to a significant loss. If you have a healthy body, you are going to be much more able to stay awake and alert and thus make better choices and have the fastest reaction times possible.