Introduction to "The Theory of Sports (and Organized Competition as a Whole)"

Hello all readers, which probably is made up of only NFW students and Dr. Majerus. My first blog post will be an introduction as to what my blog will be about, or at least what I hope for it to be. You can see the title is "The Theory of Sports (and Organized Competition as a Whole)" and over the weeks you'll understand more of what that means.

Competition is something very innate with us, dating back to first humans and in animals, and as a big sports fan I find it only right to delve deeper into it. I'm into looking at different arguments of what defines a sport or even competition in general and looking at individual forms of competitions and how the various aspects compare. My goal with comparing various aspects, I will try to see what forms of competition have more competitive parts looking at measures such as athleticism, strategy, skill, etc. Relating back to definitions, there's a lot of categorization within competition I am into, more than just what is sport vs what is not and what is competition vs what is not.

The focus is on sports just because it is by far most popular form of organized but I will also be talking about things such as video games, card games, or board games such as chess which has recently been pretty popular at Uni.  This blog won't be a guide or advice though, strictly overarching thoughts on competition. I won't spoil all this blog will give though by revealing all topics in addition to me not knowing what I will talk about really.

I left the topic quite broad in case I run out of content over the next several posts, and because of that many of you readers will probably get bored as it is an inherently boring topic that I'm interested in. If this all seems confusing I apologize, hope it will clear up in next few weeks after I start posting more. This is the boring one because it is the introduction, I swear the next ones will at least be a little bit thought provoking.

Stay tuned, thanks.