Talk:Sports in Rapture

Competitive VS Non-com Sports
This page was created both to categorize the known sports of Rapture and to list the different businesses that result from these athletic endeavors. An issue arises whether or not these sports were competitive or not. To assume that they all are would be supposition. If they aren't competitive then they're just athletic activities.

For example, the Adonis Luxury Resort has a pool and Rachelle Jacques said people swim laps at it, but are we to assume it was competitive swimming? No! It's a spa, not a gym, and we don't have any info like a poster saying "Rapture swim meet this Tuesday at the Adonis" to indicate that anything competitive went on there, so I list it as "non-competitive." The same goes for Ice Skating at Rapture on Ice.

What of the other sports? Well, the venue plays a key part in the game's nature. Archery, Basketball, Gymnastics, and Calisthenics are not necessarily competitive, but they were done at the Ryan The Lion Preparatory Academy. While I doubt the children were given medals, the banner in the gym reads "It doesn't matter how you PLAY, it matters how you WIN!" This is a clear indication of the competitiive nature of the games performed there.

Baseball, Boxing, Football, Horse Racing, and Tennis are inherently competitive, but besides all that we have evidence of actual competitions for these events (posters for boxing and football matches, Booker's horse race vouchers, the Rapture Open, etc.)

Golf is the grey area. We see golf clubs, but we have NO evidence of a golf tournament in Rapture or even a golf venue. If there was an 18 hole putting green, we never see it, all we see is Andrew Ryan practicing his swing.

So, how can I be sure some of these were done non-competitively? I can't be certain, but I'm trying my best based on the information presented to make an educated guess.

Unownshipper (talk) 22:35, October 16, 2014 (UTC)