Esports at the 2022 Asian Games

Esports
at the 2022 Asian Games
Esports ; at the 2022 Asian Games
Venue	Hangzhou Esports Center
Dates	24 September – 2 October 2023
Competitors	475 from 30 nations
	← 2018 2026 →

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
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
EA Sports FC Online details	Teedech Songsaisakul Thailand	Phatanasak Varanan Thailand	Kwak Jun-hyouk South Korea
Street Fighter V details	Kim Gwan-woo South Korea	Hsiang Yu-lin Chinese Taipei	Lin Li-wei Chinese Taipei
Arena of Valor details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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
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
6	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21