The 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, will be the first major olympic-style sports event with several esports titles being played and StarCraft II will be the part of this competition.
The following countries will participate in AIMAG 2017 StarCraft II: Philippines, Iran, Mongolia, Chinese Taipei and China.
Esports competition at AIMAG starts on September 25th and finishes on September 27th.
StarCraft II Group Stage (round-robin bo3 format):
Group A: iAsonu - Zhou Hang NIIIN - Saboori Nikan Nice - Huang Yu-Hsian Xenos - Mayor Cenor Jr
Group B: :mn: Sioras - Bataa Ononbat XiGua - Wang Lei Cell - Chen Ming-Cheng Jack - Tamboboy Jess Joa
First places of groups a, b advance to the Semifinals, second and third place finishers will play for two remaining semifinal spots in the first round of Single Elimination bo5 playoff. Finals are bo5 as well.
Broadcast schedule of AIMAG StarCraft II: Day 1, September 25 - start at 12:00 local time (09:00 CEST) Day 2, September 26 - start at 12:00 local time (09:00 CEST) Day 3, September 27 - Final starts at 09:00 local time (06:00 CEST)
I'm really excited to be a part of introducing Starcraft to a traditional sports audience here in Turkmenistan, and to experienced viewers watching online keep on mind that the primary purpose of this event is to introduce eSports to an unfamiliar audience.
Ashgabat is absolutely beautiful as is the Olympic Village. I'll try to take lots of pictures while I'm here and she really them with you all as I am able. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask here or let me know on twitter.
On September 26 2017 22:15 207aicila wrote: So why are the casters calling Taiwan "Chinese Taipei"?
What a wonderful way to inject needless politics into eSports... -_-'''
here is your answer (from wikipedia):
"Chinese Taipei" is the name for the Republic of China (ROC) designated in the Nagoya Resolution whereby the ROC and the People's Republic of China recognize each other when it comes to the activities of the International Olympic Committee. The ROC participates under this name in various international organizations and events, including the Olympics, Paralympics and Deaflympics, Asian Games and Asian Para Games, Universiade, FIFA World Cup, Miss Universe and the World Health Organization.
TLDR: it's an Olympics stuff, no politics behind that just "old style disambiguation"...
On September 25 2017 03:48 i-MajiN wrote: No money just medals for the top three oO What the purpose for players ?
XiGua vs iAsonu for the final and win for iAsonu
No one gives money in olympics
...while no money go directly from Olympics Committee to players winning medals (apart from the intrinsic value of each medal in itself), each country pays its athletes for Olympic medals wins, each with its own rules/timings/amounts of money/etc...
On September 26 2017 22:15 207aicila wrote: So why are the casters calling Taiwan "Chinese Taipei"?
What a wonderful way to inject needless politics into eSports... -_-'''
It's actually a compromise solution. In the old days the country most people now call "Taiwan" didn't particularly like that name (because they did, and technically still do, claim to be the rightful government of all of China). The country now called "China" also doesn't want them to be acknowledged as independent.
On September 26 2017 22:15 207aicila wrote: So why are the casters calling Taiwan "Chinese Taipei"?
What a wonderful way to inject needless politics into eSports... -_-'''
It's actually a compromise solution. In the old days the country most people now call "Taiwan" didn't particularly like that name (because they did, and technically still do, claim to be the rightful government of all of China). The country now called "China" also doesn't want them to be acknowledged as independent.
Which goes back to the Chinese Civil War, where the Communist government pushed the nationalists out China and into Taiwan, and as you said, they had the ROC (Republic of China) vs the PROC (People's Republic of China) where both governments claim (or claimed) to be the rightful government of China.
Chinese Taipei is the only way that they both recognize each other in Olympic and sporting events. So...it is a political thing.
That being said, congrats to iA! as a Chinese Canadian, I quite enjoyed seeing iA win an actual tournament against Xigua. (Yes I realize the competitive level isn't very high). Though it is interesting to see the relative level of the Chinese and Taiwanese players against the other Asian countries such that even though they don't do particularly well in WCS tournaments, they're still one of the best Asian countries in the WCS region (note, not Korea obviously).
EPT
2017 Asian Indoor-Martial Arts Games![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/4ay40EN.jpg)
iAsonu - Zhou Hang
Nice - Huang Yu-Hsian
Xenos - Mayor Cenor Jr
