# Esports at the 2022 Asian Games

Esports at the 2022 Asian Games were held at Hangzhou Esports Center in Hangzhou, China from 24 September to 2 October 2023.
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. 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.
A qualification tournament called AESF Road to Asian Games 2022 was played earlier for all titles featured. 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. 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.
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.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 24th Sun | 24th Sun | 25th Mon | 25th Mon | 26th Tue | 27th Wed | 27th Wed | 28th Thu | 28th Thu | 29th Fri | 30th Sat | 1st Sun | 2nd Mon |
| EA Sports FC Online | P | P | P | ½ | | ½ | F | | | | | | |
| Street Fighter V | | | | | P | P | ½ | ½ | F | | | | |
| Arena of Valor | P | ¼ | ½ | ½ | F | | | | | | | | |
| Dota 2 | | | | | | | | | | P | ¼ | ½ | F |
| Dream Three Kingdoms 2 | | | | | | P | P | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F | | |
| League of Legends | | | P | P | P | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | ½ | F | | | |
| PUBG Mobile | | | | | | P | P | 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) | Totals (7 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |

## Participating nations

A total of 475 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:
* Bahrain (4)
* China (31)
* Chinese Taipei (19)
* Hong Kong (31)
* India (15)
* Indonesia (13)
* Japan (12)
* Jordan (7)
* Kazakhstan (28)
* Kuwait (1)
* Kyrgyzstan (15)
* Laos (15)
* Macau (19)
* Malaysia (19)
* Maldives (13)
* Mongolia (10)
* Myanmar (16)
* Nepal (22)
* Palestine (12)
* Philippines (25)
* Qatar (4)
* Saudi Arabia (21)
* Singapore (1)
* South Korea (15)
* Sri Lanka (4)
* Tajikistan (12)
* Thailand (32)
* United Arab Emirates (10)
* Uzbekistan (23)
* Vietnam (26)