Saatvik

The League of Legends esports tournament is, unsurprisingly, a complete joke of an event. The format is bad (Bo1 group stages with Bo3 single elimination bracket), it is being played on an old patch and the bracket is very uneven - the de-facto final will be the - semi-finals. The only real reason for fans to care is that the six Korean players (most notable Faker) have a chance to avoid having their careers ended by military service.
 
The Dota 2 tournament has a similar problem with a bad format and the de-facto final being the semi-final ( and are by far the best teams, with likely being the third best team).
 
It's really frustrating just how bad IOC and OCA events are at showcasing esports. There is well over twenty years of expertise on how to run sucessful esports events, but whoever is in charge here is just not willing to learn what makes an esport event work. Everything is baffling, from the broadcast to the venue to the choise of games to the format.
 
(At least the Street Fighter and FIFA tournaments have a somewhat sensible format, so there is that).

hmm, I think Iran is doing OK in term of number of medals but only 1 gold so far doesn't look good. even though in first 3 days beside volleyball the only sport we had a legit chance to win gold was Taekwondo. specially today we had the current World Champion but she lost in the first round  not the biggest surprise ever to me since I know our girls can't handle the pressure of being #1 favorite. we could win 2 more golds in the men's side but they both lost the finals narrowly. and our other medal-favorite girl lost because of weird electronic system which gave 20 extra points to the Chinese girl. I mean we are probably 1 gold less than expectations so far but that happens. 
 
you know wrestling is our big thing when it comes to the Asian Games but having World Championship only few days before the Games really ruined some of our chances. we still don't know the Asian Games squad and they are considering some changes. most of our top lighter weights wrestlers can't cut weight twice in a short period of time.

It takes four tiebreakers, but  leave with the bronze. A definite candidate for moment of the Games. I’ve never seen anything like that in shooting 

Yes. Amazing result. China did a good job but Korea is just amazing tonight.
 
BTW just in case some of you guys don't know before,  male Asian Games champions and Olympic Games medalists will be exempt from compulsory military service about 2 years. So basically  male athletes may be more motivated than other countries.

I just notice the Sheng wonderful performance in the 10m air rifle  253.3 and new world record, wow.

North Korea was sooo close to Japan in the gymnastic women's team event, I expected a bigger difference.
 
China 161.629 Japan 157.229 North Korea 156.829

5 medals for Iran so far. all of them in women's events  that's not something you would expect
 
 
of course that's going to change soon, even today. but still worth mentioning

has just won their first medal of the games . A 🥉 in Judo &  are guaranteed a medal in Judo , which will be their first in AG 2023. 
 
With that 22 NOC has so far won a medal that is nearly 50% of total participating NOC . We are just in Day 2. 
 

how come Running target events are in the program  while the host country didn't even care to enter a team ?!  

10 m running target team were seen crying when anthem was playing... You all know what that means...

I must admit that the atmosphere is very pleasant, almost all the venues I saw were full. The Asian Games are certainly one of the best continental multi-sport events, the European Games can only aspire to come closer...

Yes I was watching it on our local TV and nobody believes what just happened   beating Japan 3-0 ? seriously ? wow  bring on China 
 
heroic performance from all of our 3 players  specially Nima for beating Harimoto and gave momentum to the rest

Just need to get Wushu into the Olympics now!  

also guaranteed a medal (women's cricket) meaning 2 nations that didn't medal in 2018 will do so here.

with its first medal in 21 years and its best ever result!
 
 

Men’s eights is a lot more competitive than I would have expected.  with another gold medal though.

…and it goes to China by a different name (a.k.a. )

https://bio.link/minkhudukstreaming
 
Copy the CH1-6 links on “Open Network Stream” menu in VLC Media player.

RTM (with Malaysia VPN) also have some https://sukanasia2022.rtm.gov.my/utama
 
That’s some of the safest alternative I can offer you guys
 
 

So looks like mewatch.sg is doing a better job of blocking VPNs than they used to. 

Cauldron is a bit lame, but the digital torchbearer was an interesting idea.

Thanks a lot  this is very interesting to find Asian Games draw in Egyptian boxing facebook page  
 
 
based on what I see, only one of our 5 boxers will face UZB/KAZ/Refs before the semifinal. I guess we can't complain about the draw. hopefully they win couple of bronze medals. I have low expectations in this sport and Olympic quotas are probably out of reach.

Not the best advertisement for Cricket with games being decided without a ball being bowled . The organisers should have either kept reserve days or changed format into groups. 
This is one of Cricket’s biggest de-merits that it cannot be played in rain, for an outdoor sport that is always a challenge. 
If it does make it to LA 28 programme I hope ICC and LOC sits down together to find reserve days/ formats keeping the weather conditions in mind. 

LA doesn’t have any international standard venues, I believe there are plans to build a new cricket stadium in Irvine (South of LA in Orange County), but if two are really necessary, then LA28 would have to cross their much touted “no-build” mantra.

Government has also announced cash rewards for 🥇🥈🥉winners in AG 
 
For 🥇- Around $35,000
🥈- Around $25,000 &
🥉- Around $12,000
 
Apart from this , each State government of athletes will reward them separately + various sponsors will offer additional cash/ gifts. 
 
No wonder our wrestlers wanted to focus on AG than on world championships 
 
https://pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1579723
 
This revised prize money was announced a year before  then scheduled Tokyo Olympics & covers the 4 year cycle including Asian & commonwealth games. 
I assume they will increase the amount and make a press release before Paris 2024 for the next cycle.
 

oh shit, why they didn't do that for one of women's double sculls events? 

I also see China entered 3 men for Sanda (they could enter 4) I wonder if it's intentional or what ? they don't want to win 100% available gold medals ?