Asian Games 2018

[vinipereira 3,513]

2 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

I'm hopeful that at least in athletics, swimming and gymnastics we'll be able to watch all of the events. Other than that, judo, volleyball, handball, table tennis, skateboarding, canoeing, archery, weightlifting, modern pentathlon and equestrian are the sports I want to watch, but I'm not sure all of the events will be streamed, especially in table tennis and modern pentathlon.

 

 

Volleyball will have a big coverage for sure, Peru loves this sport. On the other hand, I remember Handball wasn't broadcast in Toronto (except for the argentine channel), and I fear the same next year, even though this is a qualification event for Tokyo.

 

[nitinsanker 208]

7 hours ago, Quasit said:

Probably nobody cares, but ... demonstration events.

 

eSports - Arena of Valor

 

GOLD: China CHN

SILVER: Chinese Taipei TPE

BRONZE: Vietnam VIE

 

eSports - League of Legends

 

GOLD: China CHN 

SILVER: South Korea KOR

BRONZE: Chinese Taipei TPE

 

eSports - Clash Royale

 

GOLD: Ridel Yesaya Sumarandak INA

SILVER: Huang Chenghui CHN

BRONZE: Huynh Duc Huy VIE

 

eSports - Hearthstone

 

 

GOLD: Lo Tsz Kin HKG

SILVER: Hendry Koentarto Handisurya INA

BRONZE: Tirth Mehta IND

 

eSports - StarCraft II

 

 

GOLD: Cho Seong-ju KOR

SILVER: Huang Yu-hsiang TPE

BRONZE: Tran Hong Phuc VIE

 

eSports - Pro Evolution Soccer 2018

 

GOLD: Naoki Sugimura/Zsubasa Aihara JPN

SILVER: Hassan Pajani/Reza Nobakhtsarkandi IRI

BRONZE: Le Doan Thanh Tam/Do Thai Tien Phuc VIE

 

Canoe Polo - Women's Tournament

 

GOLD: Iran IRI

SILVER: Singapore SGP

BRONZE: Chinese Taipei TPE

 

Canoe Polo - Men's Tournament

 

GOLD: Japan JPN

SILVER: Malaysia MAS

BRONZE: Chinese Taipei TPE

 

but esports is there in the next asian games ....so interesting 

[Prashanth 185]

eventually we would have esports in Olympics because of so much video games all extra events would be cut n these would be accommodated. Since logistics would be of not much issue.

[nitinsanker 208]

6 minutes ago, Prashanth said:

eventually we would have esports in Olympics because of so much video games all extra events would be cut n these would be accommodated. Since logistics would be of not much issue.

india has tons of nerds     we can be good

[Prashanth 185]

E-sports is the future...Have seen robotics games, computer games contest. These would surely sneak. Since nowadays all works with the mind hence these would suit that concept very much and cost effective also...

[Dolby 757]

2 hours ago, nitinsanker said:

india has tons of nerds     we can be good

We are nowhere on the professional video games circuit. It is dominated by East Europe and East Asia. 

[Griff88 2,021]

13 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m watching a replay of the Women’s 20Km Speed Skating, and besides the fact that I could skate faster than all of Sri Lanka’s skates, there is a point in the race where officials had to actually ask the competitors to increase their speed in order to satisfy the definition of skating 

The funny thing is when one of Indonesian skater is eliminated but she keeps racing and had to be announced three times before she finally understand. Even in the spectators some people can be heard shouting: "You are already eliminated!"

[Quasit 955]

3 hours ago, nitinsanker said:

 

but esports is there in the next asian games ....so interesting 

Yes. I just said that knowing most people here don't care about it. (or are probably afraid )

 

That said, me liking video games and the competition, I don't want eSports to become part of the Olympic programme. It just wouldn't fit, same with board and card games. While perfectly fine on continental games, in my opinion there should be a separate Olympic tournament for all mind sports and eSports. It could be labeled as something with "indoor" and be held in autumn.

Edited September 2, 2018 by Quasit

[Quasit 955]

28 minutes ago, Dolby said:

We are nowhere on the professional video games circuit. It is dominated by East Europe and East Asia. 

And of course North America, but it depends on what games.

USA is good at various fighting games, for example. Not sure why they didn't include any fighting games as demonstration events here.

[Griff88 2,021]

15 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

There's still one more event to go, but here is some initial stats on the performance of nations in non-Olympic events.

 

First I removed all non-Olympic sports, except for roller sports, which I only kept skateboarding. I also removed events from Olympic sports that are not in the Olympics with the following exceptions. In boxing, weightlifting and wrestling all weightclasses were kept and in karate the men's and women’s +84kg and +68kg respectively were kept to simulate the +75kg and +61kg events.

 

Medals won in non-Olympic Events

1.   - 63

2.   - 59

3.   - 52

4.   - 34

5.   - 32

6.   - 25

7.   - 24

8.   - 23

8.   - 23

8.   - 23

11. - 22

 

Everyone else won fewer than 20 medals in non-Olympic events. Not too surprising that Indonesia won the most medals. Bahrain, Iraq and Syria were the only nations to have won medals, but none in non-Olympic events. Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Nepal only won medals in non-Olympic events. Of course putting down total medals is a bit unfair for larger nations. Powerhouses like China are expected to do well in all sports so it's expected that they would also win more medals in non-Olympic sports.

 

Here I calculated the probability that a nation would have earned their number of Olympic event medals (or fewer) over the total medals won. A lower number meant it was unlikely and that the nation likely benefited from non-Olympic events.

 

1.   0.0000000076%

2.   0.0049%

3.   0.0087%

4.   0.049%

5.   0.12%

6.   0.35%

7.   0.84%

8.   2.46%

9.   3.34%

10. 4.39%

 

Everyone else was at a 10% chance or higher. 8/10 nations that benefited from non-Olympic events were Southeast Asian nations, likely due to Indonesia's influence. The nations that saw significantly little to no benefit from the added events were Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Japan, China, North Korea, Qatar and Kazakhstan.

Nice. I wonder if you can break them to G-S-B?