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]
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 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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EA Sports FC Online | Teedech Songsaisakul![]() | Phatanasak Varanan![]() | Kwak Jun-hyouk![]() |
Street Fighter V | Kim Gwan-woo![]() | Hsiang Yu-lin ![]() | Lin Li-wei![]() |
Arena of Valor | ![]() Sun Linwei Lin Heng Chi Xiaoming Xu Bicheng Jiang Tao Luo Siyuan | ![]() Nicholas Ng Yong Zhan Quan Lai Chia Chien Ong Jun Yang Chong Han Hui Eng Jun Hao | ![]() Vatcharanan Thaworn Chayut Suebka Kawee Wachiraphas Anusak Manpdong Sorawat Boonphrom |
Dota 2 | ![]() Wang Chunyu Lu Yao Yang Shenyi Zhao Zixing Yu Yajun Xiong Jiahan | ![]() Altanginjiin Bilgüün Otgondavaagiin Sükhbat Battsoojiin Mönkh-Erdene Narankhandyn Batbayasgalan Dashzevegiin Tögstör | ![]() Daniel Chan Cheng Jin Xiang Thiay Jun Wen Ng Wei Poong Yap Jian Wei Tue Soon Chuan |
Dream Three Kingdoms 2 | ![]() 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 Pachara Thongeiam Walunchai Sukarin Teerapat Supasdetch Attakit Samattakitwanich |
League of Legends | ![]() Choi Woo-je Seo Jin-hyeok Jung Ji-hun Park Jae-hyeok Ryu Min-seok Lee Sang-hyeok | ![]() Xu Shi-Jie Hung Hao-hsuan Chu Jun-lan Chiu Tzu-chuan Hu Shuo-chieh Su Chia-hsiang | ![]() Chen Zebin Zhao Lijie Zhuo Ding Zhao Jiahao Tian Ye Peng Lixun |
PUBG Mobile | ![]() Liu Yunyu Zhu Bocheng Zhang Jianhui Chen Yumeng Huang Can | ![]() Choi Young-jae Kim Dong-hyeon Kwon Soon-bin Kim Sung-hyun Park Sang-cheol | ![]() Chiang Chien-ting Wang Bo-zhi Tsai Cheng-fu Wang Chin-hung Chen Hung-ming |
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 |
A total of 475 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games: [12]
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