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Esports at the 2022 Asian Games

Esports at the 2022 Asian Games

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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]

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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 didn't take part in this stage.

Schedule

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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
Demonstration events[11]
  • AESF Robot Masters
  • AESF VR Sports

Medalists

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Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

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Participating nations

A total of 476 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:[12]

Notes

  1. Known outside of China as PUBG Mobile

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.
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    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.
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    "Tweet by Asian Electronic Sports Federation @AESF_Official". Twitter. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
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    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.
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    "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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