• Can eSports be considered a sport?
• https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/29/16566528/olympics-ioc-statement-esports
• Should eSports be considered a serious sport, its own category of competition, or just a joke? Why?
• Are eSports negatively impacting kids? Will the popularity impact kids going outside and getting an exercise?
• Are eSports creating a new type of “athlete”? How?
• Is it disrespectful for the olympics to include eSports? Will it offend the athletes who physically train all year, or will people respect eSports?

Gaelic Football Video Game- by Wilson and Vaughan

Link to Article: http://www.punditarena.com/gaa/jredmond/new-independent-gaelic-football-video-game-receieves-funding/

1. Is the sport big enough to create a successful game?

2. Would this game improve the popularity of the sport?

3. Would this sport have a market in America even with the other main sporting attractions? Why?

4. Do you think the lack of funding for a Gaelic Football game hurts the sport in anyway?

USA Fails to Qualify for the 2018 World Cup

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/10/10/us-mens-soccer-team-fails-to-qualify-for-world-cup-for-first-time-in-3-decades.html

How is this going to effect the US men's soccer team in years to come?

In what way is this going to affect the US men's soccer team and their supporters

Does this change the perspective of American soccer?

Does losing to a team that is ranked 99th in the world make the US men's team bad?

NBA tanking

http://www.nba.com/article/2017/09/28/nba-board-governors-approves-changes-draft-lottery-system#/

Do you think these changes should be in place, or should things not have changed?

Do you believe that the proposed lottery chances will dissuade teams from tanking? If so, how effective is it? If not, what else can be in set in place?

Do you believe it is unfair for teams who don’t tank purposefully and lose their potential number 1 pick to a team better than them?

What makes the NBA so vulnerable to organizations tanking?

Egypt Qualifies for World Cup

Article Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4960906/Liverpool-star-Mohamed-Salah-sends-Egypt-World-Cup.html

European Teams: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/index.html

African Teams: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/africa/index.html

Focus on the amount of teams qualified for each continent: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/teams/index.html

Questions:

• Looking at the effect that this qualifying game had on Egypt (with the celebrations, etc), how do you think the World Cup affects other countries and the world as a whole?
  
  

Egypt hasn’t qualified for a world cup in 28 years. The amount of teams that qualify from each continent vary (ex. Europe 14 teams, Africa 5 teams) to try to raise the competition. This is because there are more top European teams than African.

• Does Egypt deserve to qualify over stronger teams (ex. Sweden, England, etc) because they had an easier qualifier group in Africa?
  
  

• Should qualifying should be based on the strength of the team or should they try to diversify the teams by picking the same amount of teams per continent?
  
  
• What are the repercussions for each scenario above?