Esports at the 2018 Asian Games

Esports
at the 2018 Asian Games
Esports ; at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	The BritAma Arena
Dates	26 August – 1 September
Competitors	131 from 18 nations
	2022 →

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.

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

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 Tsubasa Aihara Naoki Sugimura	Iran Reza Nobakht Hassan Pajani	Vietnam Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm
Arena of Valor	China Zhang Yuchen Liu Mingjie Pan Jiadong Wang Tianlong Xiang Yang Xie Tao	Chinese Taipei Lin Chun-ting Cheng Ming-jen Cheng Yu-hsiang Huang Chien-wei 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 Lee Sang-hyeok Park Jae-hyuk Jo Yong-in Han Wang-ho	Chinese Taipei Hsieh Yu-ting Wang You-chun Huang Yi-tang Lu Yu-hung Hu Shuo-chieh Chen Kuan-ting

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	1	0	3
2	Indonesia (INA)	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	0	1
4	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
6	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	2	1	3
7	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
8	Vietnam (VIE)	0	0	4	4
9	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	6	18

Participating nations

A total of 131 athletes from 18 nations competed in esports at the 2018 Asian Games:

China (13)
Chinese Taipei (13)
Hong Kong (9)
India (9)
Indonesia (17)
Iran (3)
Japan (3)
Kazakhstan (9)
Kyrgyzstan (1)
Laos (6)
Malaysia (2)
Pakistan (6)
Saudi Arabia (7)
South Korea (7)
Sri Lanka (1)
Thailand (7)
Uzbekistan (1)
Vietnam (17)

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.^[2]

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

Results

Clash Royale

27 August


Upper round 1		Upper round 2		Upper final				Final



Chirasit Phongpadith (LAO)	2

Aaron Ho (HKG)	3
		Aaron Ho (HKG)	1

		Ridel Yesaya Sumarandak (INA)	3
Ridel Yesaya Sumarandak (INA)	3

Huang Chenghui (CHN)	1
				Ridel Yesaya Sumarandak (INA)	3

				Huỳnh Đức Huy (VIE)	2
Huỳnh Đức Huy (VIE)	3

Sanjar Usmonov (UZB)	0
		Huỳnh Đức Huy (VIE)	3

		Karan Manganani (IND)	1
Solaiman Al-Mbrek (KSA)	0

Karan Manganani (IND)	3							Ridel Yesaya Sumarandak (INA)	3	0	3

								Huang Chenghui (CHN)	1	3	0

Lower round 1		Lower round 2		Lower round 3		Lower final



		Aaron Ho (HKG)	0

Chirasit Phongpadith (LAO)	1	Huang Chenghui (CHN)	3			Huỳnh Đức Huy (VIE)	2

Huang Chenghui (CHN)	3			Huang Chenghui (CHN)	3	Huang Chenghui (CHN)	3

				Karan Manganani (IND)	0

		Karan Manganani (IND)	3

Sanjar Usmonov (UZB)	0	Solaiman Al-Mbrek (KSA)	0

Solaiman Al-Mbrek (KSA)	3

The first match between Indonesia and China in the first round was also counted in the final series.

Hearthstone

31 August

Round 1		Semifinals		Final

Tirth Mehta (IND)	3
Tetsuro Akasaka (JPN)	2	Tirth Mehta (IND)	2
Lo Tsz Kin (HKG)	3	Lo Tsz Kin (HKG)	3
Artur Mukashov (KGZ)	0			Lo Tsz Kin (HKG)	3
Werit Popan (THA)	1			Hendry Koentarto Handisurya (INA)	1
Hendry Koentarto Handisurya (INA)	3	Hendry Koentarto Handisurya (INA)	3
Mosa Al-Kaltham (KSA)	1	Nguyễn Anh Tuấn (VIE)	2
Nguyễn Anh Tuấn (VIE)	3			3rd place match

				Tirth Mehta (IND)	3
				Nguyễn Anh Tuấn (VIE)	2

StarCraft II

30 August

Round 1		Semifinals		Final

Cho Seong-ju (KOR)	3
Pichayut Prasertwit (THA)	0	Cho Seong-ju (KOR)	3
Shahriar Shaki (IRI)	3	Shahriar Shaki (IRI)	0
Nyoman Arie Pranasakti (INA)	0			Cho Seong-ju (KOR)	4
Huang Yu-hsiang (TPE)	3			Huang Yu-hsiang (TPE)	0
Amruth Alfred (SRI)	0	Huang Yu-hsiang (TPE)	3
Trần Hồng Phúc (VIE)	3	Trần Hồng Phúc (VIE)	1
Adlet Satybaldin (KAZ)	0			3rd place match

				Shahriar Shaki (IRI)	0
				Trần Hồng Phúc (VIE)	3

Pro Evolution Soccer 2018

1 September

Rosters

Team	Players
Hong Kong	Lam Wing Cheung Charles Ng
India	Ankur Diwakar Navaneetha Krishnan
Indonesia (H)	Elga Cahya Putra Setia Widianto
Iran	Reza Nobakht Hassan Pajani
Kazakhstan	Kanysh Abykenov Rinat Utepov
Japan	Tsubasa Aihara Naoki Sugimura
Malaysia	Khairul Abdul Aziz Nor Haikal Noh
Vietnam	Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	MF	MA	Pts
1	Iran	3	3	0	6	0	9	—	2–0	2–0	2–0
2	Malaysia	3	2	1	4	2	6	0–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Hong Kong	3	1	2	2	4	3	0–2	0–2	—	2–0
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	3	0	6	0	0–2	0–2	0–2	—

Source: AESF

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	MF	MA	Pts
1	Japan	3	3	0	6	0	9	—	2–0	2–0	2–0
2	Vietnam	3	2	1	4	2	6	0–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Indonesia	3	1	2	2	4	3	0–2	0–2	—	2–0
4	India	3	0	3	0	6	0	0–2	0–2	0–2	—

Source: AESF

Knockout round

Semifinals		Final

Japan	2
Malaysia	0	Japan	2
Iran	2	Iran	1
Vietnam	1

		3rd place match

		Malaysia	1
		Vietnam	2

Arena of Valor

26 August

Winner group


Round 1		Round 2		Round 3				Final



Hong Kong	2

Laos	0
		Hong Kong	1

		Vietnam	2
Vietnam	2

India	0
				Vietnam	1

				China	2
Indonesia	0

Chinese Taipei	2
		Chinese Taipei	0

		China	2
Thailand	0

China	2							China	2

								Chinese Taipei	0

Lower round 1		Lower round 2		Lower round 3		Lower final



		Hong Kong	2

Laos	2	Laos	0			Vietnam	0

India	0			Hong Kong	0	Chinese Taipei	2

				Chinese Taipei	2

		Chinese Taipei	2

Indonesia	1	Thailand	1

Thailand	2

League of Legends

Qualifications & draw

2 teams from same seed were drawn into a group
Teams from same region could not be drawn into same group
- Maximum 2 teams in a group for East Asia.
- Host Indonesia auto was in seed 1, and due to same region, Vietnam must be in seed 2 and drawn into other group from Indonesia.

Region	Spots	Team	Seed
East Asia	3	China	1
		Chinese Taipei	1
		South Korea	1
Southeast Asia	AQ	Indonesia	1
Southeast Asia	1	Vietnam	2
South Asia	1	Pakistan	2
Central Asia	1	Kazakhstan	2
West Asia	1	Saudi Arabia	2

Preliminary round

27–28 August

Group stage: Double round robin, best-of-one
Semifinals: best-of-three
Medals matches: best-of-five

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L
1	South Korea	6	6	0	—	W W	W W	W W
2	China	6	4	2	L L	—	W W	W W
3	Vietnam	6	2	4	L L	L L	—	W W
4	Kazakhstan	6	0	6	L L	L L	L L	—

Source: AESF

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L
1	Chinese Taipei	6	6	0	—	W W	W W	W W
2	Saudi Arabia	6	4	2	L L	—	W W	W W
3	Pakistan	6	2	4	L L	L L	—	W W
4	Indonesia (H)	6	0	6	L L	L L	L L	—

Source: AESF

Knockout round

Semifinals 28 August		Final 28–29 August

South Korea	2
Saudi Arabia	0	South Korea	1
Chinese Taipei	1	China	3
China	2

		3rd place match

		Saudi Arabia	1
		Chinese Taipei	3

References

^ Etchells, Daniel. "Schedule for Asian Games esports demonstration event released". Inside the Games. Retrieved 12 August 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 Archived 2018-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
Asian Electronic Sports Federation (AESF) - Road to Asian Games 2018: Official page for competition schedule, results, visuals Archived 2018-06-07 at the Wayback Machine

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

[aesfannounced-2] "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.

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