Singapore to host first Olympics e-sports week in June 2023: IOC

SINGAPORE: Singapore will host the inaugural Olympic E-sports Week in June subsequent 12 months, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced on Wednesday (Nov 16).

In partnership with the Ministry of Tradition, Neighborhood and Youth, Sport Singapore and the Singapore Nationwide Olympic Committee (SNOC), the occasion will happen from Jun 22 to Jun 25 subsequent 12 months.

The four-day pageant will exhibit the most recent applied sciences and embody panel discussions, schooling periods and present matches, stated the IOC.

The spotlight would be the first in-person stay finals of the Olympic E-sports Collection, a worldwide digital and simulated sports activities competitors which builds on the successes of final 12 months’s Olympic Digital Collection, added the committee.

The 2021 collection attracted greater than 250,000 individuals from 100 international locations to participate in competitions in digital and simulated sports activities together with baseball, motorsport, biking, rowing and crusing.

“The primary Olympic E-sports Week marks an essential milestone in our ambition to help the expansion of digital sports activities throughout the Olympic Motion,” stated IOC President Thomas Bach.

“We imagine the thrilling new format of our digital sports activities competitors, with stay finals to be staged for the primary time, is a chance to collaborate additional with e-sports gamers and to create new alternatives for gamers and followers alike.

“It’s a good alternative to be partnering with Singapore, which has a historical past of supporting innovation within the Olympic Motion, internet hosting the inaugural Youth Olympic Video games in 2010, so we’re trying ahead to working collectively carefully.”

The IOC announcement comes as a lift to Singapore’s ambitions of becoming a global e-sports hub, because the nation goals to host extra occasions.