Lots of you seem to be using the argument of 'well, any of you who think that Pinball is a sport, must be really bad at real sports/don't know what real sports are, and feel the need to legitimise it in some way'.

I'm sure Todd is on here, but thought his opinion was worth sharing as he seems to know what a 'real' sport is, scroll down to the 'Pinball Career' bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_MacCulloch

It seems to me like the poll is a fair reflection of the community's response/opinion to the question 'should pinball be considered a sport?' The majority do not want/think Pinball should be considered a Sport.

That is clearly a very different question to 'Is Pinball a Sport?' Some people think that the poll response is answering this question, which is clearly wrong.

The majority (nearly 2/3d's) aren't interested in playing pinball competitively and don't want it to be a competitive thing as that will take the fun out of it. Fair enough. As we have always known, people are in the hobby for many many different reasons. There are many different bias's towards different areas of the hobby.

My opinion, 'it's more fun to compete'