Esports At Asian Games 2023: How To Watch Live Streaming In India?

The China Hangzhou Esports Center in Hangzhou, China is currently hosting the esports competitions at the 2022 Asian Games from 24 September to 2 October 2023.

After making its debut as a demonstration sport in 2018, esports are now featured as a medal event for the first time at the Asian Games, and after the SEA Games in 2019, this is the second major multi-sport event to do so.

From June 15 to July 15, all of the mentioned titles were played in Macau, China’s AESF Road to Asian Games 2022 qualification competition. No competitors were eliminated as a result of this tournament, and the results were also used to decide the countries’ seeds for the forthcoming Games. Japan and South Korea sat out of this round.

Athletes are competing in a total of 481 events across various disciplines at the Asian Games, which got underway in Hangzhou, China, on Saturday. This time around, seven esports games have been formally included.

The Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang in 2018 saw the introduction of esports as a demonstration sport. Then, in 2020, at the 39th General Assembly of the Olympic Council of Asia, esports was approved as an official medal sport for the Hangzhou Asian Games.

List of seven esports in Hangzhou Asian games

• League of Legends: The objective of League of Legends, a well-known multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, is to destroy the opposing Nexus before the rival team breaks theirs.
•  Arena of Valor: It is a multiplayer online battle arena game created for mobile devices called Arena of Valor Asian Games Version. Ten players are split into two teams to combat the opposing team in a simulated battlefield that is approximately divided into three primary lanes. For the base of the opposition to be destroyed, each team must work together.
• Peace Elite Asian Games Version: In this battle royale game, which is a rebranded version of PUBG Mobile, players compete to be the last individual or group standing on a map that is rapidly shrinking while using a range of weapons and strategies.
• DOTA 2: Defense of the Ancients’ successor, Dota 2, is a well-known MOBA in which two teams of five players each compete to demolish the opponent’s Ancient structure while in control of potent heroes. One of the most popular games on Steam is this one.
• Dream Three Kingdoms 2: In this strategy and resource-management game, players construct armies, engage in combat, and manage resources to gain victory during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.
• Street Fighter V: Champion Edition: In this installment of the legendary fighting game series, players can choose from a variety of characters, each with their own particular moves and fighting philosophies.
• Football (soccer) players manage and compete with virtual teams in the simulation game EA SPORTS FC ONLINE, formerly known as FIFA Online 4.

Watch an Asian Games live stream

All around the continent, the Asian Games are being broadcast. With FREE broadcasts on CCTV in China and mewatch.sg in Singapore, it is accessible on the Sony Sports Network and Sony LIV in India, TBS in Japan, and Sony in Singapore. Sport lovers in nations like the US and UK don’t have a home broadcaster linked, however the SBS network in Australia offers some free coverage each day. Using a VPN will enable you to watch your home live stream from anyplace if you want to do so while traveling.

• Asian Games dates: September 23 – October 8