| Event: | Esports |
| Games: | 2018 Asian Games |
| Venue: | The BritAma Arena |
| Dates: | 26 August – 1 September |
| Competitors: | 131 |
| Nations: | 18 |
| Next: | 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.
| E | Event |
| Sun 26 | Mon 27 | Tue 28 | Wed 29 | 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 | |||||||
| Clash Royale | ||||
| Hearthstone | ||||
| StarCraft II | ||||
| Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 | Tsubasa Aihara Naoki Sugimura | Reza Nobakht Hassan Pajani | Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm | |
| Arena of Valor | Zhang Yuchen Liu Mingjie Pan Jiadong Wang Tianlong Xiang Yang Xie Tao | Lin Chun-ting Cheng Ming-jen Cheng Yu-hsiang Huang Chien-wei Yen Hao-che Chen Po-cheng | Phạm Hồng Quân Vương Trung Khiên Trần Xuân Bách Nguyễn Quân Nam Trần Quang Hiệp Nguyễn Trí Hùng | |
| League of Legends | Yan Junze Liu Shiyu Su Hanwei Jian Zihao Tian Ye Shi Senming | Kim Ki-in Go Dong-bin Lee Sang-hyeok Park Jae-hyuk Jo Yong-in Han Wang-ho | Hsieh Yu-ting Wang You-chun Huang Yi-tang Lu Yu-hung Hu Shuo-chieh Chen Kuan-ting |
A total of 131 athletes from 18 nations competed in esports at the 2018 Asian Games:
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]
| 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 |
27 August
31 August
30 August
1 September
| Team | Players | |
|---|---|---|
| Lam Wing Cheung Charles Ng | ||
| Ankur Diwakar Navaneetha Krishnan | ||
| Elga Cahya Putra Setia Widianto | ||
| Reza Nobakht Hassan Pajani | ||
| Kanysh Abykenov Rinat Utepov | ||
| Tsubasa Aihara Naoki Sugimura | ||
| Khairul Abdul Aziz Nor Haikal Noh | ||
| Đỗ Thái Thiên Phúc Lê Đoàn Thanh Tâm |
26 August
| Region | Spots | Team | Seed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Asia | 3 | 1 | ||
| 1 | ||||
| 1 | ||||
| Southeast Asia | 1 | |||
| 1 | 2 | |||
| South Asia | 1 | 2 | ||
| Central Asia | 1 | 2 | ||
| West Asia | 1 | 2 |
27–28 August