Esports at the 2022 Asian Games
Esports at the 2022 Asian Games | |
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Venue | Hangzhou Esports Center |
Dates | 24 September – 2 October 2023 |
Competitors | 475 from 30 nations |
Esports at the 2022 Asian Games were held at Hangzhou Esports Center in Hangzhou, China from 24 September to 2 October 2023.[1][2][3]
This was the first edition of the Asian Games that featured esports as a medal event, after debuting as a demonstration sport in 2018, and the second major multi-sport event to do so after the SEA Games since 2019.[4][5] AliSports, the sports arm of Chinese multinational technology company, Alibaba Group, partnered with the Olympic Council of Asia to bring esports to the Asian Games.[6]
A qualification tournament called AESF Road to Asian Games 2022 was played earlier for all titles featured.[7] The results of this tournament were also used to determine the countries' seedings for the upcoming Games, with no participants being eliminated through this event.
A total of 8 medal events in esports were planned along with 2 demonstration events focused in robotics and VR, all of them within the mind sports category.[8][9] But in March 2023, the Olympic Council of Asia approved a decision to remove Hearthstone from the announced list of events due to the closure of Blizzard service in mainland China.[10]
Two demonstration events AIES Robot Sports – Ultimate Battle Robots and AIES XR Sports – Steelraid were held after the Asian Games on 11 and 12 November 2023.[11]
Schedule
P | Preliminary rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
Event↓/Date → | 24th Sun |
25th Mon |
26th Tue |
27th Wed |
28th Thu |
29th Fri |
30th Sat |
1st Sun |
2nd Mon | ||||
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EA Sports FC Online | P | P | ½ | ½ | F | ||||||||
Street Fighter V | P | P | ½ | ½ | F | ||||||||
Arena of Valor | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||||||
Dota 2 | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||||||
Dream Three Kingdoms 2 | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||||||
League of Legends | P | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||
PUBG Mobile | P | P | ¼ | ½ | F |
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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EA Sports FC Online |
Teedech Songsaisakul Thailand |
Phatanasak Varanan Thailand |
Kwak Jun-hyouk South Korea |
Street Fighter V |
Kim Gwan-woo South Korea |
Hsiang Yu-lin Chinese Taipei |
Lin Li-wei Chinese Taipei |
Arena of Valor |
China Sun Linwei Lin Heng Chi Xiaoming Xu Bicheng Jiang Tao Luo Siyuan |
Malaysia Nicholas Ng Yong Zhan Quan Lai Chia Chien Ong Jun Yang Chong Han Hui Eng Jun Hao |
Thailand Vatcharanan Thaworn Chayut Suebka Kawee Wachiraphas Anusak Manpdong Sorawat Boonphrom |
Dota 2 |
China Wang Chunyu Lu Yao Yang Shenyi Zhao Zixing Yu Yajun Xiong Jiahan |
Mongolia Altanginjiin Bilgüün Otgondavaagiin Sükhbat Battsoojiin Mönkh-Erdene Narankhandyn Batbayasgalan Dashzevegiin Tögstör |
Malaysia Daniel Chan Cheng Jin Xiang Thiay Jun Wen Ng Wei Poong Yap Jian Wei Tue Soon Chuan |
Dream Three Kingdoms 2 |
China Cheng Long Cheng Hu Fu Haojie Yao Xing Zhou Ke Guo Runmin |
Hong Kong Law Hing Lung Chan Cheuk Kit Yip Ho Lam Yuen Pak Lam Yip Wai Lam |
Thailand Chatchapon Chanthorn Werit Popan Pachara Thongeiam Walunchai Sukarin Teerapat Supasdetch Attakit Samattakitwanich |
League of Legends |
South Korea Choi Woo-je Seo Jin-hyeok Jung Ji-hun Park Jae-hyeok Ryu Min-seok Lee Sang-hyeok |
Chinese Taipei Xu Shi-Jie Hung Hao-hsuan Chu Jun-lan Chiu Tzu-chuan Hu Shuo-chieh Su Chia-hsiang |
China Chen Zebin Zhao Lijie Zhuo Ding Zhao Jiahao Tian Ye Peng Lixun |
PUBG Mobile |
China Liu Yunyu Zhu Bocheng Zhang Jianhui Chen Yumeng Huang Can |
South Korea Choi Young-jae Kim Dong-hyeon Kwon Soon-bin Kim Sung-hyun Park Sang-cheol |
Chinese Taipei Chiang Chien-ting Wang Bo-zhi Tsai Cheng-fu Wang Chin-hung Chen Hung-ming |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | China (CHN) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
2 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
3 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
5 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
6 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
Participating nations
A total of 475 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:[12]
- Bahrain (4)
- China (31)
- Chinese Taipei (19)
- Hong Kong (31)
- India (15)
- Indonesia (13)
- Japan (12)
- Jordan (7)
- Kazakhstan (28)
- Kuwait (1)
- Kyrgyzstan (15)
- Laos (15)
- Macau (19)
- Malaysia (19)
- Maldives (13)
- Mongolia (10)
- Myanmar (16)
- Nepal (22)
- Palestine (12)
- Philippines (25)
- Qatar (4)
- Saudi Arabia (21)
- Singapore (1)
- South Korea (15)
- Sri Lanka (4)
- Tajikistan (12)
- Thailand (32)
- United Arab Emirates (10)
- Uzbekistan (23)
- Vietnam (26)
References
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- ^ Chalk, Andy (18 April 2017). "Esports will be an official medal event at the 2022 Asian Games". PC Gamer. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "eSports joins the 2022 Asian Games as a medal event". Engadget. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "Road to Asian Games 2022 – Leading up to the esports final in 2022 Asian Games Hangzhou". roadtoag.com. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ Venkat, Rahul (9 September 2021). "Asian Games 2022: Esports to make debut; FIFA, PUBG, Dota 2 among eight medal events". Olympics. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ "Tweet by Asian Electronic Sports Federation @AESF_Official". Twitter. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ "Hearthstone dropped from Asian Games 2023 esports program". Olympics. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
- ^ Venkat, Rahul. "Asian Games 2022: Esports to make debut; FIFA, PUBG, Dota 2 among eight medal events". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ "Number of Entries by NOC" (PDF). HAGOC. 22 September 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.