Primarily, E-sports leagues appear to be trying to make gaming appear to be a sport without actually making it into one. Like the addition of coaches in MLG games like Gears of War and Halo. That seems like a totally ludicrous addition to professional gaming and one that does not even make it more like a sport. Why does a gamer need a coach?

To make gaming in to a sport, they should make organizational changes. Let's continue to use MLG as being an example. A Halo 3 team in MLG should have to be sponsored by an organization or person. A sponsor does not just pay for trips to Meadowlands and provide you cool gaming rigs. That person should own the team and they make the roster changes. If Ogre 1 and Ogre 2 do not like Walshy any more, too bad. They don't have a say, the sponsor does. Teams should not be just a group of friends that got together one day and have played together ever since. They should be solid foundations that will exist years from basically, with our without it's current player roster.

They should implement a regular season. In place of going to a handful of tournament events or competing in some online ladder, the teams associated with the season are set at the beginning of the season. No more can teams join or leave once the season is underway. Thus, schedules are set for each team. In case you are scheduled to play a team, you go to that location and play them. Real sports teams and players travel a great deal. It seems gamers sit at home training for the next event. You train through the off-season in a sport, and play through the season. Why would competitive play be held online whenever you have network issues, potential cheating, and lag? It does not make sense. So there is no reason they shouldn't be traveling around the country to play their next scheduled opponent.

Each team might have the same number of games played. After the season is over, playoffs could be seeded and played in the tournament-style events like Meadowlands. That should be how playoffs are carried out. Right now it seems they have no relevance at all the than winning you money and giving you points.

There should also be a scouting combine. You cannot simply up and join an MLG competition one day. You will have to enter into a separate league and compete there until you are invited by a team owner to join an MLG team. That will give legitimacy to the league and probably weed out a lot of want to-be's and posers given that they aren't going to want to compete and travel a lot.

Another idea I had for American professional gaming could be to hold state tournaments which may recognize the top players that live in each state. These players would then meet the requirements to compete on the main MLG or professional circuit. I think something like this could be more feasible than a minor leagues for gaming. And c'mon, who does not like saying aspects such as I went to states in 2009.'

Physicality will not matter
A whole lot of folks say gaming is not a sport because it's not physical. I'm not saying this since it is debatable regardless of whether sports require physical activity. Of course, NASCAR is regarded as a sport by some and also the driver just sits there. Bowling can also be considered a sport and that concerns very little physicality. It is also debatable regardless of whether gaming has no physicality within the first place. Gaming requires reaction time and motor skills and also critical and analytical thinking, best football the same as real sports. I think the real reasons that people say gaming is not a sport is because of the ones outlined above. It just seems more like a hobby and also does not conduct itself in a professional or sports-like manner.