Esports at the 2018 Asian Games

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.

Esports at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	The BritAma Arena
Dates	26 August – 1 September 2018
Competitors	131 from 18 nations
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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-shiang  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
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	0	1
	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
Clash Royale	1	2	2	1	1	1
Hearthstone	1	2	2	1	1	1
StarCraft II	1	2	2	1	1	1
Pro Evolution Soccer 2018	1	2	2	1	1	1
Arena of Valor	1	3	3	1	0	0
League of Legends	1	3	1	1	1	1

Results

Clash Royale

27 August

Winner group

	Round 1				Round 2				Round 3
	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)	3							Huỳnh Đức Huy (VIE)	2
	Sanjar Usmonov (UZB)	0			Huỳnh Đức Huy (VIE)	3
	Solaiman Al-Mbrek (KSA)	0			Karan Manganani (IND)	1
	Karan Manganani (IND)	3

Loser group

	Round 2				Round 3				Round 3
	Chirasit Phongpadith (LAO)	1			Aaron Ho (HKG)	0
	Huang Chenghui (CHN)	3			Huang Chenghui (CHN)	3			Huang Chenghui (CHN)	3
	Sanjar Usmonov (UZB)	0			Karan Manganani (IND)	3			Karan Manganani (IND)	0
	Solaiman Al-Mbrek (KSA)	3			Solaiman Al-Mbrek (KSA)	0

Finals

	Semifinal				Final
					Ridel Yesaya Sumarandak (INA)	3	0	3
	Huỳnh Đức Huy (VIE)	2			Huang Chenghui (CHN)	1	3	0
	Huang Chenghui (CHN)	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-shiang (TPE)	3							Huang Yu-shiang (TPE)	0
	Amruth Alfred (SRI)	0			Huang Yu-shiang (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

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts		IRI	MAS	HKG	KAZ
1	Reza Nobakht (IRI)  Hassan Pajani (IRI)	3	3	0	9		—	2–0	2–0	2–0
2	Khairul Abdul Aziz (MAS)  Nor Haikal Noh (MAS)	3	2	1	6		0–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Lam Wing Cheung (HKG)  Charles Ng (HKG)	3	1	2	3		0–2	0–2	—	2–0
4	Kanysh Abykenov (KAZ)  Rinat Utepov (KAZ)	3	0	3	0		0–2	0–2	0–2	—

Source: AESF

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts		JPN	VIE	INA	IND
1	Tsubasa Aihara (JPN)  Naoki Sugimura (JPN)	3	3	0	9		—	2–0	2–0	2–0
2	Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc (VIE)  Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm (VIE)	3	2	1	6		0–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Elga Cahya Putra (INA)  Setia Widianto (INA)	3	1	2	3		0–2	0–2	—	2–0
4	Ankur Diwakar (IND)  Navaneetha Krishnan (IND)	3	0	3	0		0–2	0–2	0–2	—

Source: AESF

Knockout round

	Semifinals				Final
	Tsubasa Aihara (JPN)  Naoki Sugimura (JPN)	2
	Khairul Abdul Aziz (MAS)  Nor Haikal Noh (MAS)	0			Tsubasa Aihara (JPN)  Naoki Sugimura (JPN)	2
	Reza Nobakht (IRI)  Hassan Pajani (IRI)	2			Reza Nobakht (IRI)  Hassan Pajani (IRI)	1
	Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc (VIE)  Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm (VIE)	1
					3rd place match
					Khairul Abdul Aziz (MAS)  Nor Haikal Noh (MAS)	1
					Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc (VIE)  Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm (VIE)	2

Arena of Valor

26 August

Winner group

	Round 1				Round 2				Round 3
	Hong Kong	2
	Laos	0			Hong Kong	1
	Vietnam	2			Vietnam	2
	India	0							Vietnam	1
	Indonesia	0							China	2
	Chinese Taipei	2			Chinese Taipei	0
	Thailand	0			China	2
	China	2

Loser group

	Round 2				Round 3				Round 3
	Laos	2			Hong Kong	2
	India	0			Laos	0			Hong Kong	0
	Indonesia	1			Chinese Taipei	2			Chinese Taipei	2
	Thailand	2			Thailand	1

Finals

	Semifinal				Final
					China	2
	Vietnam	0			Chinese Taipei	0
	Chinese Taipei	2

League of Legends

Preliminary round

27–28 August

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L		KOR	CHN	VIE	KAZ
1	South Korea	6	6	0		—	1–0	1–0	1–0
2	China	6	4	2		0–1	—	1–0	1–0
3	Vietnam	6	2	4		0–1	0–1	—	1–0
4	Kazakhstan	6	0	6		0–1	0–1	0–1	—

Source: AESF

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L		TPE	KSA	PAK	INA
1	Chinese Taipei	6	6	0		—	1–0	1–0	1–0
2	Saudi Arabia	6	4	2		0–1	—	1–0	1–0
3	Pakistan	6	2	4		0–1	0–1	—	1–0
4	Indonesia	6	0	6		0–1	0–1	0–1	—

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