South Korea, Saudi Arabia and more qualify to the 2018 Asian Games eSports tournament

Several Asian teams have made it out of the 2018 Asian Games qualifiers, including Korea in East Asia’s first place

A six team double round-robin offline tournament, the East Asia Qualifers featured teams from Korea, Taipei, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan. Korea, China, and Taipei finished the round robin tournament tied for first place, with identical 8-2 game records. Korea won the tiebreaker between the three teams, with Taipei winning the following tiebreaker against China to finish in second place. Despite that, both Taipei and China have also qualified for the 2018 Asian Games’ main event.

Joining the East Asian teams at the main event are Vietnam, Laos, India, Uzbekistan, and Saudi Arabia’s national teams, who topped different regional qualifiers. Indonesia’s national team will also be a competitor at the main event, but did not need to take part in a qualifier since the country plays host to the 2018 Asian Games.

Korea’s national team featured Afreeca Freecs top laner Kim “Kiin” Gi-in, KT Rolster jungler Go “Score” Dong-bin, KINGZONE DragonX jungler Han “Peanut” Wang-ho, SK Telecom T1 mid laner Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, and GEN.G bot lane duo Park “Ruler” Jae-hyuk/Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in.

The Asian Games will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia and is set to take place from Aug. 18 to Sept. 1.