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We don't have an official media category for sports, aside from Pro Wrestling, because for the most part they lack a narrative that can have tropes. They're basically a form of Real Life.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"They should probably all go under Useful Notes, then, if they don't have a narrative.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.Obviously the tropes associated with those sports heavily influence media; that's why we have them as tropes. But we don't need to be documenting the sports themselves; that's not our purpose. Recap.MLB 2014 Toronto Vs Baltimore Game 3... seriously?
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I can see how you would qualify stuff like certain techniques and common occurrences in racing as tropes, following a "sport = gameplay" analogy. It's a bit hard to wrap your head around that, though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanRecap.NASCAR 2014 Race 25 Daytona Speedway
Recap.NFL 2014 Week 5 Dallas Vs Washington
That's the kind of thing we're talking about. It's absurd.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Well, it is not tropable. Real life sports (that aren't performances, like pro wrestling) don't have narratives; hence they don't have tropes. Now, the media surrounding the sport does have narrative; we could hypothetically document ESPN Sports Center under Live-Action TV, for example, assuming someone wanted to go to the trouble. But the tropes would be limited to the "performance" of the show, not the real life people involved.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"We trope gameplay in the sense that we'd trope rules for sports, but not individual events.
We trope gameplay choices that the designers actively put in. We don't, for example, trope professional gaming tournaments' gameplay as that's real life and not what we do.
Now, for something like NASCAR we could trope things like Competitive Balance, Obvious Rule Patch, and the like. Basically things that the guys who make the rules implemented in order to make the games more interesting. That would fall under TV Tropes' mission. But things like troping everything that happened during a game, or even a career? That's just troping real life.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.A Sports/ namespace would seem to be indicated for general stuff like that mentioned above.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"And Useful Notes "subpages" for the sports happening in fiction or references to sports heroes in fiction.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

What namespace should motorsports related pages be under? Because right now they seem split between two different namspaces: Useful Notes (Rallying, 24 Hours of Le Mans, and United Sports Car Championship) and Main, (NASCAR, Indy Car. and Formula One). The Motorsports page itself is under Useful Notes as well