Interest in e-sports games is increasing ahead of the opening of the Hangzhou Asian Games on the 26th.
Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported this on the 15th in an article titled ‘E-sports tickets are the most difficult to obtain and the most expensive.’
E-sports, which involves competing with various types of video games, was adopted as an official sport for the first time at this year’s Asian Games. Games that are familiar to the general public, such as League of Legends, Battleground Mobile, FIFA Online 4, and Street Fighter V, will be played as official events in the Asian Games.
The South China Morning Post reported, “Among the events at the Hangzhou Asian Games, e-sports is the only sport for which tickets are sold through a lottery system.”
If you look at the Hangzhou Asian Games ticket sales site, the ticket price for most sports starts at 50 or 100 yuan, but the price range is so high that only e-sports starts at 400 yuan (about 73,000 won).
Excluding e-sports, golf is expensive at about 300 yuan and rhythmic gymnastics is about 200 yuan, and prices for all other sports start at less than 100 yuan.
Of course, since the ticket price for each sport is affected by the stadium capacity, stadium location, game schedule, etc., it is difficult to directly link this to the popularity of the sport, but this example shows that a considerable amount of attention is being paid to e-sports, which is a new sport.
As the opening of the competition approaches in a week, the outlines of star athletes participating in each event are being revealed.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) website recently introduced the ‘world stars’ of this event through an article titled ‘Famous athletes appearing at the Hangzhou Asian Games.’
Three Korean athletes were also named here: swimming Hwang Sun-woo, track and field Woo Sang-hyuk, and badminton Ahn Se-young.
Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar), who will compete for the gold medal in the high jump with Sanghyuk Woo, and Neeraj Chopra (India) and Haruka Kitaguchi (Japan), world championship gold medalists in the men’s and women’s javelin throw, were also mentioned.
In addition, it was expected that swimmer Rikako Ikee (Japan), who overcame leukemia, and Oksana Chusovitina (Uzbekistan), a 48-year-old veteran of women’s artistic gymnastics, would be at the center of attention.
In addition, the ’10 rising Chinese stars to watch at the Hangzhou Asian Games’ recently announced by China’s Xinhua News Agency include women’s golf world number one Yin Luoning, Go player Ke Jie, women’s tennis world number 22 Zheng Qinwen, and track and field hurdler Yenni Wu. done.
(Photo = Yonhap News)
Reporter Kim Hyeon-gyeong [email protected]
2023-09-16 08:44:05
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