The announcement marks the subsequent main step in supporting the event of digital sports activities inside the Olympic Movement and fascinating additional with aggressive avid gamers.

Here is what the esports business stakeholders must say concerning the growth.

Animesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, 8bit Creatives, India’s main esports consulting and expertise company & an ex-esports athlete:

“While the Esports community is wondering about the next and the best possible steps to integrate Esports into the Olympics as well as other multi-sports global events, this inaugural edition of the Olympic Esports Week will surely play a crucial role in establishing esports /virtual sports as an integral part of the sporting universe. With International Olympic Committee (IOC) taking this concrete initiative it is imperative that we as the esports community start having the right dialogues with the stakeholders that matter. I must add that we are fortunate to experience the change, which also means it is our responsibility to create a strong and unified voice for the Indian Esports community going forward.

We also hope that apart from virtual and simulated sports that happened in last year’s Olympic virtual esports series, prominent esports titles like DOTA 2, FIFA, Hearthstone, League of Legends and Valorant will also make their entry into this year’s event and further leverage the humongous audience base of competitive gaming around the world.”

Lokesh Suji, Director, Esports Federation of India & Vice President of the Asian Esports Federation (AESF):

After Esports being proposed as an official medal sport of AIMAG 2025, this news further fortifies the dawn of Esports as a mainstream sport in international multi-sport events. The combined efforts of numerous major international organizations along with the International Olympics Council (IOC) are bearing fruit for the worldwide Esports group and giving them a platform to make their nation proud by bringing laurels on the worldwide stage. IOC, the apex physique of sports activities persevering with its engagement with esports is proof of the potential of esports and it’s a phenomenon that can not be ignored. We hope that Esports will get official recognition as a sport in India similar to different international locations as it can allow us to go full throttle and scale nice heights in video gaming. Soon sufficient, each particular person within the nation will search to be concerned on this video gaming revolution and the day just isn’t far when esports may even get included as a medal sport in Olympics similar to Asian Games.

Rohit Jagasia, Founder & CEO, Revenant Esports:

The complete Esports fraternity shall be rejoicing with this welcome information which has definitely been a results of the gaming group’s collective efforts spanning over the previous couple of years. The inaugural version of the Olympics Esports Week is a testomony to international our bodies realizing the worth of gaming and giving it the popularity that it deserves. With the gaming business in India rising at such a speedy tempo and accumulating by no means seen earlier than numbers by way of income we are able to hopefully count on India to be one of many international locations which have formally acknowledged Esports as a sport quickly. It is about time that gaming will get included as an official medal sport in any respect main multi-sport occasions and will probably be an immense pleasure to see India turn out to be a dominant pressure in it.

Rohit Agarwal, Founder & Director, Alpha Zegus, the next-gen advertising and marketing company specializing within the domains of gaming & life-style:

After the nice success final 12 months, many avid gamers had been trying ahead to Olympic Esports week, and what higher location than the business epicenter of Asia Pacific, Singapore! Fingers crossed for extra alternatives for India now, and for extra of our native and nationwide groups to participate. Also, this can gasoline the esports ecosystem and the sporting occasion additional leverage the large viewership base of aggressive gaming across the globe.