SINGAPORE: Late in 2022, when Singapore’s Culture, Community and Youth Minister Edwin Tong announced on Facebook that the country would host the first-ever Olympic Esports Week in 2023
FIFA player Amraan Gani, for one, was shocked to find the popular football video game missing from the Olympic roster.
He argued that the e-sports “universe" also encompasses combinations of physical and virtual elements like in the Virtual Taekwondo game. Mr Amraan Gani when his team won a FIFA tournament in 2018 and Mr Daryl Ng with his bronze medal from the 2021 Southeast Asian Games. FIFA player Mr Amraan described Fortnite as the type of game that would capture interest from audiences.
Others in the local community saw the inaugural Olympic Esports Week as a good start to furthering the industry in Singapore.
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