| Event: | Esports |
| Games: | 2022 Asian Games |
| Venue: | China Hangzhou Esports Center |
| Dates: | 24 September – 2 October |
| Competitors: | 476 |
| Nations: | 30 |
| Prev: | 2018 |
Esports at the 2022 Asian Games were held at the China Hangzhou Esports Center in Hangzhou, China from 24 September to 2 October 2023.[1] [2] [3]
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.[4]
A qualification tournament called AESF Road to Asian Games 2022 was played in Macau, China from June 15 to July 15 for all titles featured.[5] 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. South Korea and Japan did not participate in this stage.
| P | Preliminary round | E | Elimination rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 24th Sun | 25th Mon | 26th Tue | 27th Wed | 28th Thu | 29th Fri | 30th Sat | 1st Sun | 2nd Mon | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arena of Valor | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
| Dota 2 | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
| Dream Three Kingdoms 2 | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
| EA Sports FC Online | P | E | ¼ | ½ | ½ | F | ||||||||||
| League of Legends | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
| Peacekeeper Elite | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
| Street Fighter V | P | E | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||||||||
Esports were featured at the 2018 Asian Games as a demonstration sport, thus medals won in the event weren't counted in the official overall medal tally.[6] With the 2022 Asian Games, a total of 7 medal event in esports were featured along with 2 demonstration events focused in robotics and VR, all of them within the mind sports category.[7] [8]
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.[9]
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.[10]
| Arena of Valor | valign=top | Sun Linwei Luo Siyuan Lin Heng Chi Xiaoming Xu Bicheng Jiang Tao | valign=top | Lai Chia Chien Nicholas Ng Khai Shuan Ong Jun Yang Eng Jun Hao Yong Zhan Quan Chong Han Hui | valign=top | Vatcharanan Thaworn Anusak Manpdong Kawee Wachiraphas Sorawat Boonphrom Chayut Suebka |
| Dota 2 | valign=top | Wang Chunyu Lu Yao Yang Shenyi Zhao Zixing Yu Yajun Xiong Jiahan | valign=top | Bilguun Altanginj Sukhbat Otgondavaa Munkh-Erdene Battsooj Batbayasgalan Narankhand Tugstur Dashzevge | valign=top | Chan Kok Hong Cheng Jin Xiang Ng Wei Poong Thiay Jun Wen Tue Soon Chuan Yap Jian Wei |
| Dream Three Kingdoms 2 | valign=top | Cheng Long Cheng Hu Fu Haojie Yao Xing Zhou Ke Guo Runmin | valign=top | Law Hing Lung Chan Cheuk Kit Yip Ho Lam Yuen Pak Lam Yip Wai Lam | valign=top | Chatchapon Chanthorn Werit Popan Attakit Samattakitwanich Walunchai Sukarin Teerapat Supasdetch Pachara Thong Eiam |
| EA Sports FC Online | ||||||
| League of Legends | valign=top | valign=top | Chu Jun-lan Hu Shuo-chieh Xu Shi-jie Hung Hao-hsuan Chiu Tzu-chuan Su Chia-hsiang Chiu Tzu-chuan | valign=top | Chen Zebin Tian Ye Peng Lixun Zhao Lijie Zhao Jiahao Zhuo Ding | |
| Peacekeeper Elite | valign=top | Zhu Bocheng Zhang Jianhui Liu Yunyu Huang Can Chen Yumeng | valign=top | Park Sang-cheol Kwon Soon-bin Kim Dong-hyeon Kim Sung-hyun Choi Young-jae | valign=top | Wang Chin-hung Chiang Chien-ting Wang Bo-zhi Chen Hung-ming Tsai Cheng-fu |
A total of 476 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:[12]