Esports at the 2022 Asian Games

Esports
at the 2022 Asian Games
VenueHangzhou Esports Center
Dates24 September – 2 October 2023
Competitors475 from 30 nations

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.