However, as a baron often owned a lot of land, a sport often has a lot of cultural power. Just like with having a title, being called a sport doesn’t necessarily give you anything. In modern culture, sport is one of many terms of legitimacy - a title. To understand what “sport” really means, we need to understand it as it exists in culture. The second definition comes by way of etymology, loosening the meaning so much that it hardly matches how we use the word today. Here are two definitions, a long one from Cambridge and a short one from Merriam-Webster. Howard Stern, French Nobility, and Title Legitimacyīy definition, sport is looser a term than people think. To be a sport, a game needs the raw legitimacy that makes it so much more than a game. To be more than a game, a sport needs to be a thing two tribes can fight over - a stand-in for interaction, a means for evaluation, and a reason for real competition. To be living, a sport needs a full-fledged scene that spreads across several regions and people. In my eyes, a sport doesn’t come alive just by merit of a ruleset or a tournament. That was the day Melee held its first national, Game Over. I set the date two years later - January 10th, 2004. was born? Was it on January 21st, 1999, when Nintendo released Super Smash Bros? Or on November 21st 2001, when Melee was released? Or on April, 2002, when Matt Deezie started the Tournament Go series? When would you say competitive Smash Bros.
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