The 2009 Asian Indoor Games (AIG) will be happening next week in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Asian Indoor games is officially sanctioned by the Asian Olympic Council and is an event for competitions that are generally played indoors and may be under consideration for the Olympic games. Examples of other games at the event are 3v3 Basketball, Futsal, Billiards and Chess. This year the Vietnamese Olympic Committee has decided to add Starcraft as one of the "E-sports" at the event (the others being Counter-Strike, FIFA2009, NFS, DotA and NBA Live). E-Sports made their First appearance in Macau 2007 but did not include Starcraft.

Date: November 1-4th 2009
Location: Gymnasium of Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Players:
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China: XueBin He, Yang Zheng

India: Kabir Singh Tomar

South Korea: (T)

Flash,

fantasy

Qatar: Mohammed Al Romaihi, Mohammed Al Naama

GROUP A
1.

fantasy 2-0 QUALIFIED
2.

XueBin He 1-1 QUALIFIED
3.

Mohammed Al Romaihi 0-2 ELIMINATED

GROUP B
1.

Flash 3-0 QUALIFIED
2.

Yang Zheng 2-1 QUALIFIED
3.

Mohammed Al Naama 1-2 ELIMINATED
4.

Kabir Singh Tomar 0-3 ELIMINATED

SEMI-FINAL

fantasy 2-0(W/O)

Yang Zheng

XueBin He 0-2(W/O)

Flash

FINAL

fantasy 0-2

Flash

MEDAL PLACING
1.

Flash
2.

SKT

fantasy
3.

Yang Zheng

nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

October 28 2009 02:21 GMT

haha, that's just brutal :D maybe china can get someone to give the koreans a match.

economist_

Vietnam719 Posts

October 28 2009 03:30 GMT

We dont send any Starcraft players, and probably no other countries does except China and Korea. I dont even know whether China sends any because everyone is scared of Korea lol

Its funny story in Vietnam as well because we initiated the inclusion of SC and did organize the preliminary round for selection of 2 players participating in this AIG. But after that the Vietnamese organizing committee thought that it would be hard to get the good results when competing with China and Korea so they decided not to send any players. Furthermore, in Esport, we have stronger team in other categories such as FiFa and DOTA. It looks like each country has limited number of categories to send players (4 in 6 categories)

I am also really surprised that countries like Singapore and Malaysia where not only SC is good but Esport in general do not join this esport competition

Too bad for SC but this is also great chance for the community to meet Flash and Fantasy irl. Everyone is very excited. The stadium is also located in the place crowded with internet cafe shops (like PC bangs in Korea) so lots of nerds will join this fun.

Beside_kr

Canada902 Posts

October 28 2009 03:39 GMT

thanks for the information economist_

ArvickHero

10387 Posts

October 28 2009 03:54 GMT

Weird that Jaedong doesn't really get sent to any events like IEF or this.

p4NDemik

United States13896 Posts

October 28 2009 04:01 GMT

I never thought I'd see "may be under consideration for the Olympic games" and "StarCraft" being mentioned in the same post.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

October 28 2009 04:02 GMT

nba live lol

chiam_ace

Malaysia111 Posts

October 28 2009 07:00 GMT

On October 28 2009 12:30 economist_ wrote:
It looks like each country has limited number of categories to send players (4 in 6 categories)

I think that's why a lot of participating countries choose not to take part in E-sports?

thanhbao86

Canada199 Posts

November 01 2009 19:07 GMT

These are pictures of Flash and Fantasy in Vietnam.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

November 01 2009 19:10 GMT

#10

O_O!

GTR

51639 Posts

November 01 2009 20:17 GMT

#11

I think this is why KT, SK, hite and STX aren't playing this week and thus the no-game Monday. KT and STX manager is over in Vietnam, fantasy from SK as well.
Dunno about hite, I just guess they needed a fourth team to make it even.

nayumi

Australia6499 Posts

November 01 2009 21:08 GMT

#12

Starcraft is being played on the 3rd and the 4th. If I can allocate some time, I'll pass by the competition hall to take pictures with Flash and Fantasy =D

It's such a shame though, that there are only a few SC players.

P/S: on a side note, Vietnam just won our first (and probably only) eSport gold medal in DotA lol

Garnet

Vietnam9049 Posts

November 02 2009 04:05 GMT

#13

I heard the computers can't even play CS properly.

Beside_kr

Canada902 Posts

November 03 2009 02:52 GMT

#14

I'm going to bump this because the first games are scheduled to start at 8:00am local which would mean the group stage is well under way, the event has a website but the starcraft results/players aren't yet updated, anyone at the event?

Niggurath

Chile103 Posts

November 03 2009 03:07 GMT

#15

On November 03 2009 11:52 Beside_kr wrote:
I'm going to bump this because the first games are scheduled to start at 8:00am local which would mean the group stage is well under way, the event has a website but the starcraft results/players aren't yet updated, anyone at the event?

DuskBin is in the event (the new team with the ex-fnatic players)

http://www.duskbin.com

Beside_kr

Canada902 Posts

November 03 2009 03:17 GMT

#16

heh, ya, I'm just suing that to update, found it to thanks DuskBin!

and thanks Niggurath

I don't know who the Chinese players are, neither of them are F91, it appears that Yang Zheng once played FIFA for China at WCG