Marching Band is technically a Sport Attempt #3 (Please read the rules)

Rule Updates - There is no sentence minimum or maximum - You must provide a Positive Criticism and a Negative Criticism - You don't have to re-state your thesis, but you can. If you're going to, you can provide some more detail to your thesis to make it clear. Well, I'm doing it just to clear things up. Notice I said "you can" meaning you have a choice to do it or not. So, either way, you're not going to be penalized depending on the voter. - You still have to state your goodbyes - You can rebut if you still want to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Con has forfeited Round 4, therefore my rebuttals has been left undisputed. Also, Con can't state any further rebuttals and I have proven his statements fallacious. Thesis Restatements Yes, I can agree that Marching Band is not a "professional" sport, but what people don't realize is that a sport does not to be in the professional league. You see, when people think about sports, they think of Soccer, Basketball, Football, Baseball, and sometimes Hockey. It's those sports that they see on TV that they perceive as a sport. This sort of thing obscures the true definition of a sport which is " an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." I've already clarifed that a sport must have: 1. Competition 2. The involvement of physical exertion. Now, notice I said involvment. That means it's associated with it in general. I didn't say that the scale of physical exertion taking place had to be very significant, apparent, and extreme. I didn't say that. So, don't just take this notion of just because it doesn't have a certain piece of this, it doesn't make it a sport. These certain pieces don't exist. I mean, Golf is a sport. All you do is swing and walk. You don't even have to walk, you can just bring a golf cart. The only physical activity that's taking place is when you swing. The key thing that makes golf a sport is precision. You have Polo which is an Equestrian sport (usage of horses). The horse is doing all of the physical activity, but did it say in the defintion that a human being had to do physical activity? 3. Governed by a set of rules I've already clarified that Marching Band has rules that every band should follow did I not? 4. Has to have skill Everyone knows that you must have knowledge and skill in music to march and play at the same time. Also, look at all of the sources I have that further proves my case. I haven't even used the YouTube videos that proves Marching Band being a sport. I'll paste them at the end of my conclusion. Positive Criticism Even though, your arguments were erreneous, I have to give you credit. You are probably the most surprising opponent I've met. I honestly didn't expect some validity to come from your arguments. Before I started the debate, I originally thought it was nearly impossible to oppose me, but you proved me wrong about that. But..... Negative Criticism Your biggest downfall of the debate is you didn't really follow the definition of what a sport is. Also, you didn't take in the generalization of the definition of "physical exertion." Your connotation of "sport" was kind of unclear because you kept adding fundamentals that you declare defines a sport when it really doesn't. You said that a sport must have intermission which are timeouts and breaks. Where, in the definition of sport, says that sports must have intermission? It's like your insight of sports are professional sports. Yes, Marching Band is not a professional sport, but that's not what we're debating about. We are debating if Marching Band is just a sport. There are different kinds of sports. Electronic sports, Equestrian sports, Mind sports, Shooting sports, etc. Every sport is different. Physical exertion means just using and improving your muscles. Like I said earlier, cardiovascular fitness falls into this category and there's a lot of cardiovascular activity going on in Marching Band. All of that being said, you were a good opponent. I wish you good day, and a thank you for participating in this debate. It was nice debating with you. To all of the voters, please vote on a winner based on who made the better argument because I know some of you will vote on the person you just agree with. That is an absurd way of voting. YouTube sources: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Every other source I've used whether it was in the debate or not: 8. http://www.teenink.com... 9. http://en.wikipedia.org... 10. http://en.wikipedia.org... 11. http://www.washingtonpost.com... 12. http://www.atlxtv.com... 13. http://www.highschoolillustrated.com... 14. http://www.cmhsnews.com... 15. https://www.google.com... 16. https://www.google.com... 17. http://en.wikipedia.org... 18. http://www.ycspectator.org... 19. http://www.therideronline.com... 20. http://laurenrobak.blogspot.com... 21. http://www.saratogafalcon.org... 22. http://halftimemag.com... 23. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com... 24. http://www.ask.com... 25. http://www.reuters.com... 26. http://sandragonzalez2012.blogspot.com... 27. http://www.amparents.org... 28. http://en.wikipedia.org... 29. http://en.wikipedia.org... 30. 31. http://www.performwell.net... 32. http://en.wikipedia.org... 33. http://en.wikipedia.org... 34. https://www.google.com... 35. http://thadeej14.hubpages.com... 36. http://dynamicmarching.com... 37. http://unhbands.org... There's still some more sources out there that proves that Marching Band is technically a sport. I would also use what my Physical Science teacher and my mother said about Marching Band being a sport. I will not directly quote them because I don't remember exactly what they said. My physical science teacher is a Golf coach and she is well-informed of the definition of sport. My mother knows about my school district. 38. Marching Band follows the Triple A guidlines for being called a sport. - Teacher 39. The school district classifies Marching Band as a sport. I know I didn't make it to 40 sources, but who cares?