Some of the world’s best pro gamers will soon be able to win gold medals for playing video games.
That’s after the Olympic Council of Asia announced that e-sports will be officially included as a medal sport at the 2022 Asian Games, to be held in Hangzhou, China.
The OCA didn’t provide a full list of the games that would feature at the tournaments but said that players would be competing in FIFA 2017, as well as “MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) and RTA (Real Time Attack)” games.
Expect that to translate to titles similar to League of Legends and StarCraft II — assuming, of course, that the OCA can hammer out deals with developers like Riot and Blizzard.
Advertisement
