What is the relatively unknown sport that you follow?

[Nathanpete]

I know this isn't unknown, but it certainly is here in my area of the United States. I am an avid follower of Formula 1 and I would wager there are less than 10 serious fans in my medium sized town that I live in. 

[spartaman64]

compound archery i guess. Archery itself is relatively well known but a lot of my friends dont even know what my compound bow is. 

[Quackers101]

Formula 1?

Then you should look up F1 marble races!

Also don't forget E-sports, although some e-sport titles aren't really what I would consider to be an e-sport.

[wONKEyeYEs]

Rock climbing is fun as well as archery.

[FakeATF]

Space Golf, like regular golf, but way better.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14#Lunar_surface_operations

 

Asfor serious answers, none of the sports that I follow are "unknown".

[da na]

Here in 'Murica, cricket is literally unheard of

[airborne spoon]

1 hour ago, Quackers101 said:

Also don't forget E-sports, although some e-sport titles aren't really what I would consider to be an e-sport.

Esports are NOT sports, playing video games is not a sport

20 minutes ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Here in 'Murica, cricket is literally unheard of

Its not entirely unheard of its just confusing, no matter how many times ive been explained how it works it still doesnt make much sense

 

Anyway for obscure sports there is Pig-N-Ford racing, i also like The 24 Hours of Lemons, and School-Bus Racing

[Quackers101]

2 minutes ago, airborne spoon said:

Esports are NOT sports, playing video games is not a sport

Only that it is and is already accepted by big sport programs too.

So yeah... E-sport is a sport or you could call a lot of other sports to not be a sport.

If it's always fair or follow the right lines a sport would do? no, but cheating and more can happen in either area.

[da na]

1 hour ago, airborne spoon said:

Esports are NOT sports, playing video games is not a sport

Its not entirely unheard of its just confusing, no matter how many times ive been explained how it works it still doesnt make much sense

 

Anyway for obscure sports there is Pig-N-Ford racing, i also like The 24 Hours of Lemons, and School-Bus Racing

I've seen school bus racing and a stock school bus is surprisingly fast

[SeriouslyMikey]

1 hour ago, airborne spoon said:

Esports are NOT sports, playing video games is not a sport

What doesn't make eSports sports?

If darts is a sport, in which the physical exertion is getting munted and throwing darts at a round board, I'd say eSports are sports.

In the case of a game like CS, it's a competitive and highly skill based game where two teams compete for our entertainment. Which matches sports pretty well, only difference is it's played on a PC and not on a pitch or field.

[Arika]

I don't follow it per se, but I do occasionally find a match of slamball to watch. 

[airborne spoon]

2 hours ago, Quackers101 said:

Only that it is and is already accepted by big sport programs too.

So yeah... E-sport is a sport or you could call a lot of other sports to not be a sport.

If it's always fair or follow the right lines a sport would do? no, but cheating and more can happen in either area.

Only reason its picked up by places like ESPN and friends is because people make money off of it because people are stupid and will pay to watch it.

38 minutes ago, SeriouslyMikey said:

What doesn't make eSports sports?

If darts is a sport, in which the physical exertion is getting munted and throwing darts at a round board, I'd say eSports are sports.

In the case of a game like CS, it's a competitive and highly skill based game where two teams compete for our entertainment. Which matches sports pretty well, only difference is it's played on a PC and not on a pitch or field.

Darts is not a sport either, bowling is right on the line of being a sport or not, Golf is definitely not a sport either. Motocross and supercross are sports, and are the most physically demanding of all sports.

Playing video games is not a sport.

[Quackers101]

9 minutes ago, airborne spoon said:

Only reason its picked up by places like ESPN and friends is because people make money off of it because people are stupid and will pay to watch it.

Just like with football, with cheating, with fans that can ruin the game and communities that are hostile with gambling aspects that they want to benefit from with physical fights.

 

- "Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants"

 

E-sport got that, and you have to be in a certain physical shape and there is physical and mental activity going on depending on the game. "motocross is a a sport"... lol, so you just can't accept it because you dont like it.

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Playing video games is not a sport.

It is 100% a sport, and it will become more and more into the big arena (already have).

As in everything becoming more digitalization, physical VR/AR sport could very much become a thing.

And the scope beyond that.

[SeriouslyMikey]

15 minutes ago, airborne spoon said:

Only reason its picked up by places like ESPN and friends is because people make money off of it because people are stupid and will pay to watch it.

So... just like every other sport. If it doesn't get views, it wont bring in money, so a major channel like ESPN or Sky News wont broadcast it. Why would you watch football? It's just 22 blokes running around a pitch for a ball. Yet we pay football players multimillion pound sallaries for what they do.

 

22 minutes ago, airborne spoon said:

Darts is not a sport either, bowling is right on the line of being a sport or not, Golf is definitely not a sport either. Motocross and supercross are sports, and are the most physically demanding of all sports.

Darts is a sport. In fact it's specifically a marker sport.

Also, level of demand needed for a sport isn't a requirement for whether something is or isn't a sport. By that metric, why is motocross more demanding than road racing, freestyle snowboarding/skiing, or any other extreme sport for that matter?

[spartaman64]

15 hours ago, airborne spoon said:

Only reason its picked up by places like ESPN and friends is because people make money off of it because people are stupid and will pay to watch it.

Darts is not a sport either, bowling is right on the line of being a sport or not, Golf is definitely not a sport either. Motocross and supercross are sports, and are the most physically demanding of all sports.

Playing video games is not a sport.

what about curling or skeet shooting or archery

[Nathanpete]

19 hours ago, spartaman64 said:

compound archery i guess. Archery itself is relatively well known but a lot of my friends dont even know what my compound bow is. 

User's Title checks out. 

[airborne spoon]

17 hours ago, SeriouslyMikey said:

So... just like every other sport. If it doesn't get views, it wont bring in money, so a major channel like ESPN or Sky News wont broadcast it. Why would you watch football? It's just 22 blokes running around a pitch for a ball. Yet we pay football players multimillion pound salaries for what they do.

 

Darts is a sport. In fact it's specifically a marker sport.

Also, level of demand needed for a sport isn't a requirement for whether something is or isn't a sport. By that metric, why is motocross more demanding than road racing, freestyle snowboarding/skiing, or any other extreme sport for that matter?

Motorcross is more demanding because it requires the most amount of physical stress requirement, more than any other sport due to the length of time (30-50 minute races) and having to manhandle a 300'ish pound motorcycle for that whole time.

 

American football is stupid and boring and i hate how it is so popular, in a game with a play clock of 1 hour it takes 3 hours to play and only has an average playtime of about 11 minutes for the whole damn game how stupid is that?!!