Esports at the 2022 Asian Games
Esports at the 2022 Asian Games | |
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Venue | China Hangzhou Esports Center |
Dates | 24 September – 2 October |
Competitors | 476 from 30 nations |
← 2018 |
Esports at the 2022 Asian Games were held at the China 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]
A qualification tournament called AESF Road to Asian Games 2022 was played in Macau, China from June 15 to July 15 for all titles featured.[5] 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. South Korea and Japan did not participate in this stage.
Schedule
P | Preliminary round | E | Elimination rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
Event↓/Date → | 24th Sun | 25th Mon | 26th Tue | 27th Wed | 28th Thu | 29th Fri | 30th Sat | 1st Sun | 2nd Mon | |||||||
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Arena of Valor | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
Dota 2 | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
Dream Three Kingdoms 2 | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
EA Sports FC Online | P | E | ¼ | ½ | ½ | F | ||||||||||
League of Legends | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
Peacekeeper Elite | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
Street Fighter V | P | E | ¼ | ½ | F |
Events
Esports were featured at the 2018 Asian Games as a demonstration sport, thus medals won in the event weren't counted in the official overall medal tally.[6] With the 2022 Asian Games, a total of 7 medal event in esports were featured along with 2 demonstration events focused in robotics and VR, all of them within the mind sports category.[7][8]
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.[9]
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]
List
- Medal events
- Arena of Valor (Asian Games version)
- Dota 2
- Dream Three Kingdoms 2
- EA Sports FC Online
Hearthstone- League of Legends
- Peacekeeper Elite[a] (Asian Games version)
- Street Fighter V (Champion Edition)
- Demonstration events[11]
- AESF Robot Masters
- AESF VR Sports
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Arena of Valor details | ![]() Sun Linwei Luo Siyuan Lin Heng Chi Xiaoming Xu Bicheng Jiang Tao | ![]() Lai Chia Chien Nicholas Ng Khai Shuan Ong Jun Yang Eng Jun Hao Yong Zhan Quan Chong Han Hui | ![]() Vatcharanan Thaworn Anusak Manpdong Kawee Wachiraphas Sorawat Boonphrom Chayut Suebka |
Dota 2 details | ![]() Wang Chunyu Lu Yao Yang Shenyi Zhao Zixing Yu Yajun Xiong Jiahan | ![]() Bilguun Altanginj Sukhbat Otgondavaa Munkh-Erdene Battsooj Batbayasgalan Narankhand Tugstur Dashzevge | ![]() Chan Kok Hong Cheng Jin Xiang Ng Wei Poong Thiay Jun Wen Tue Soon Chuan Yap Jian Wei |
Dream Three Kingdoms 2 details | ![]() Cheng Long Cheng Hu Fu Haojie Yao Xing Zhou Ke Guo Runmin | ![]() Law Hing Lung Chan Cheuk Kit Yip Ho Lam Yuen Pak Lam Yip Wai Lam | ![]() Chatchapon Chanthorn Werit Popan Attakit Samattakitwanich Walunchai Sukarin Teerapat Supasdetch Pachara Thong Eiam |
EA Sports FC Online details | Teedech Songsaisakul![]() | Phatanasak Varanan![]() | Kwak Jun-hyouk![]() |
League of Legends details | ![]() Seo Jin-hyeok Park Jae-hyeok Jung Ji-hun Lee Sang-hyeok Ryu Min-seok Choi Woo-je | ![]() Chu Jun-lan Hu Shuo-chieh Xu Shi-jie Hung Hao-hsuan Chiu Tzu-chuan Su Chia-hsiang Chiu Tzu-chuan | ![]() Chen Zebin Tian Ye Peng Lixun Zhao Lijie Zhao Jiahao Zhuo Ding |
Peacekeeper Elite details | ![]() Zhu Bocheng Zhang Jianhui Liu Yunyu Huang Can Chen Yumeng | ![]() Park Sang-cheol Kwon Soon-bin Kim Dong-hyeon Kim Sung-hyun Choi Young-jae | ![]() Wang Chin-hung Chiang Chien-ting Wang Bo-zhi Chen Hung-ming Tsai Cheng-fu |
Street Fighter V details | Kim Kwan-woo![]() | Hsiang Yu-lin![]() | Lin Li-Wei![]() |
Medal table
* Host nation (China)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
Participating nations
A total of 476 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:[12]
Bahrain (4)
China (31)
Hong Kong (31)
Indonesia (13)
India (15)
Jordan (7)
Japan (12)
Kazakhstan (28)
Kyrgyzstan (15)
Kuwait (1)
Laos (15)
Macau (19)
Malaysia (19)
Maldives (13)
Mongolia (10)
Myanmar (16)
Nepal (23)
Philippines (25)
Palestine (12)
Qatar (4)
Saudi Arabia (21)
Singapore (1)
Sri Lanka (4)
South Korea (15)
Chinese Taipei (19)
Thailand (32)
Tajikistan (12)
United Arab Emirates (10)
Uzbekistan (23)
Vietnam (26)
Notes
- ^ Known outside of China as PUBG Mobile
References
- ^ "BREAKING: Esports Joins Breakdancing as a Medaled Sport at the 2022 Asian Games – ARCHIVE - The Esports Observer". 16 December 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "China Hangzhou Esports Center powered up". www.hangzhou2022.cn. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "A grand debut on the Asian stage". China Daily. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Esports to debut as medal event at Asian Games 2022". GamesIndustry.biz. 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.
- ^ Chalk, Andy (18 April 2017). "Esports will be an official medal event at the 2022 Asian Games". PC Gamer. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "eSports joins the 2022 Asian Games as a medal event". Engadget. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "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.
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