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 PPreliminary rounds¼Quarterfinals½SemifinalsFFinals Event↓/Date → 24thSun 25thMon 26thTue 27thWed 28thThu 29thFri 30thSat 1stSun 2ndMon 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 EA Sports FC Online Street Fighter V Arena of ValorSun LinweiLin HengChi XiaomingXu BichengJiang TaoLuo SiyuanNicholas NgYong Zhan QuanLai Chia ChienOng Jun YangChong Han HuiEng Jun HaoVatcharanan ThawornChayut SuebkaKawee WachiraphasAnusak ManpdongSorawat BoonphromDota 2Wang ChunyuLu YaoYang ShenyiZhao ZixingYu YajunXiong JiahanAltanginjiin BilgüünOtgondavaagiin SükhbatBattsoojiin Mönkh-ErdeneNarankhandyn BatbayasgalanDashzevegiin TögstörDaniel ChanCheng Jin XiangThiay Jun WenNg Wei PoongYap Jian WeiTue Soon ChuanDream Three Kingdoms 2Cheng LongCheng HuFu HaojieYao XingZhou KeGuo RunminLaw Hing LungChan Cheuk KitYip Ho LamYuen Pak LamYip Wai LamChatchapon ChanthornWerit PopanPachara ThongeiamWalunchai SukarinTeerapat SupasdetchAttakit SamattakitwanichLeague of LegendsChoi Woo-jeSeo Jin-hyeokJung Ji-hunPark Jae-hyeokRyu Min-seokLee Sang-hyeokXu Shi-JieHung Hao-hsuanChu Jun-lanChiu Tzu-chuanHu Shuo-chiehSu Chia-hsiangChen ZebinZhao LijieZhuo DingZhao JiahaoTian YePeng LixunPUBG MobileLiu YunyuZhu BochengZhang JianhuiChen YumengHuang CanChoi Young-jaeKim Dong-hyeonKwon Soon-binKim Sung-hyunPark Sang-cheolChiang Chien-tingWang Bo-zhiTsai Cheng-fuWang Chin-hungChen Hung-ming
Medal table
Participating nations A total of 475 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:
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