Esports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although orga ...
at the
2022 Asian Games
The 2022 Asian Games (), officially known as the 19th Asian Games (), also known as Hangzhou 2022, ( zh, c=杭州2022, p=Hángzhōu Èr líng èr èr), will be a multi-sport event celebrated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Hangzhou will be the t ...
were held at the China Hangzhou Esports Center in
Hangzhou, China from 24 September to 2 October 2023.
This was the first edition of the
Asian Games
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until t ...
that featured esports as a medal event, after debuting as a demonstration sport in
2018
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, and the second major
multi-sport event to do so after the
SEA Games since
2019
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.
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. 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 didn't take part in this stage.
Schedule
Events
Esports were featured at the
2018 Asian Games
The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), officially known as the 18th Asian Games and also known as Jakarta-Palembang 2018 or Indonesia 2018, was a Asia, continental multi-sport event that was held from 18 A ...
as a
demonstration sport
A demonstration sport, or exhibition sport, is a sport which is played to promote it, rather than as part of standard medal competition. This occurs commonly during the Olympic Games, but may also occur at other sporting events.
Demonstration spor ...
, thus medals won in the event weren't counted in the official overall medal tally. 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.
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.
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.
List
;Medal events
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Arena of Valor'' (Asian Games version)
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Dota 2
''Dota 2'' is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve. The game is a sequel to ''Defense of the Ancients'' (''DotA''), a community-created mod for Blizzard Entertainment's '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.'' ''Dota 2' ...
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*''Dream Three Kingdoms 2''
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EA Sports FC Online''
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League of Legends''
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Peacekeeper Elite'' (Asian Games version)
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Street Fighter V'' (Champion Edition)
;Demonstration events
*AESF Robot Masters
*AESF VR Sports
Medalists
Medal table
Participating nations
A total of 476 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:
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Notes
References
{{Events at the 2022 Asian Games
2022 Asian Games events
2022 in esports
2022
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