Esports at the 2018 Asian Games

Esports ; at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	BritAma Arena
Dates	26 August – 1 September
Nations	18

Esports were featured at the 2018 Asian Games as a demonstration sport, meaning medals won in this sport would not be counted in the official overall medal tally. It was held from 26 August to 1 September 2018.[1] Six video games were featured in the demonstration event, Arena of Valor, Clash Royale, Hearthstone, League of Legends, Pro Evolution Soccer, and StarCraft II.[2]

Competition schedule

E	Event

Date Tournament	Sun 26	Mon 27	Thu 30	Fri 31	Sat 1
Arena of Valor	E
Clash Royale		E
Hearthstone				E
League of Legends		E
Pro Evolution Soccer					E
StarCraft II			E

Participating regions

Qualification

Qualification for the six video game title events took place from 6–20 June 2018. Among 45 member nation invited, only 27 NOCs participated in the qualifiers. There were five qualification zones for the regional qualifiers (East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia) except for Arena of Valor which only had three regional qualifiers (East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia). Qualification took place either through online matches, offline competitions, or a mix of both formats. Indonesia qualifies for all titles automatically.[3]

Qualification berths

Title	Hosts	East Asia	Southeast Asia	South Asia	Central Asia	West Asia
Arena of Valor	1	3	3	1	0	0
Clash Royale	1	2	2	1	1	1
Hearthstone	1	2	2	1	1	1
League of Legends	1	3	1	1	1	1
Pro Evolution Soccer	1	2	2	1	1	1
Starcraft II	1	2	2	1	1	1

Qualified countries

Nations	Arena of Valor	Clash Royale	Hearthstone	League of Legends	Pro Evolution Soccer 2018	StarCraft II
China	X	X		X
Chinese Taipei	X			X		X
Hong Kong	X	X	X		X
India	X	X	X		X
Indonesia	X	X	X	X	X	X
Iran					X	X
Japan			X		X
Kazakhstan				X	X	X
Kyrgyzstan			X
Laos	X	X
Malaysia					X
Pakistan				X
Saudi Arabia		X	X	X
South Korea				X		X
Sri Lanka						X
Thailand	X		X			X
Uzbekistan		X
Vietnam	X	X	X	X	X	X

Medal summary

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	1	0	3
2	Indonesia	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea	1	1	0	2
4	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
4	Japan	1	0	0	1
6	Chinese Taipei	0	2	1	3
7	Iran	0	1	0	1
8	Vietnam	0	0	4	4
9	India	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 nations)		6	6	6	18

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Clash Royale	Ridel Yesaya Sumarandak Indonesia	Huang Chenghui China	Huỳnh Đức Huy Vietnam
Hearthstone	Lo Tsz Kin Hong Kong	Hendry Koentarto Handisurya Indonesia	Tirth Mehta India
StarCraft II	Cho Seong-ju South Korea	Huang Yu-hsiang Chinese Taipei	Trần Hồng Phúc Vietnam
Pro Evolution Soccer 2018	Japan Naoki Sugimura Tsubasa Aihara	Iran Hassan Pajani Reza Nobakhtsarkandi	Vietnam Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc
Arena of Valor	China Zhang Yuchen Liu Mingjie Pan Jiadong Wang Tianlong Xiang Yang Xie Tao	Chinese Taipei Cheng Ming-jen Cheng Yu-hsiang Huang Chien-wei Lin Chun-ting Yen Hao-che Chen Po-cheng	Vietnam Phạm Hồng Quân Vương Trung Khiên Trần Xuân Bách Nguyễn Quân Nam Trần Quang Hiệp Nguyễn Trí Hùng
League of Legends	China Yan Junze Liu Shiyu Su Hanwei Jian Zihao Tian Ye Shi Senming	South Korea Kim Ki-in Go Dong-bin Han Wang-ho Lee Sang-hyeok Park Jae-hyuk Jo Yong-in	Chinese Taipei Hsieh Yu-ting Wang You-chun Huang Yi-tang Lu Yu-hung Hu Shuo-chieh Chen Kuan-ting

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References

Etchells, Daniel. "Schedule for Asian Games esports demonstration event released". Inside the Games. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
Gong, Zhe (5 June 2018). "Five Chinese sports champions try League of Legends, praising esports". CGTN. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
"AESF announced results of the Regional Qualifier Competitions for the Asian Games 2018". Asian Electronic Sports Federation. 22 June 2018. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.

External links

eSports at the 2018 Asian Games – Regional Qualification Competitions Results by the Asian Electronic Sports Federation
Electronic sports at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Electronic Sports Federation (AESF) - Road to Asian Games 2018: Official page for competition schedule, results, visuals

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[1] Etchells, Daniel. "Schedule for Asian Games esports demonstration event released". Inside the Games. Retrieved 12 August 2018.

[2] Gong, Zhe (5 June 2018). "Five Chinese sports champions try League of Legends, praising esports". CGTN. Retrieved 7 June 2018.

[aesfannounced-3] "AESF announced results of the Regional Qualifier Competitions for the Asian Games 2018". Asian Electronic Sports Federation. 22 June 2018. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.