Perfect World CEO Xiao Hong: this year's Dota should be able to enter the Asian Games
CTOnews.com July 27 news, at today's official ChinaJoy simultaneous meeting 2023 CDEC Summit Forum, Perfect World CEO, Perfect World e-sports and platform CEO Xiao Hong said that this year's Dota should be able to enter the Asian Games.
Xiao Hong, the official website of ▲ source Dota 2, believes that the public has paid far less attention to e-sports than traditional sports, and if e-sports can enter the Asian Games, it will further promote the popular development of e-sports. He also said that in early June this year, the Dota national training team completed its training at Perfect World and e-sports Center. In addition, Perfect World has also built a lot of competition systems to improve e-sports 's ecology.
CTOnews.com previously reported that e-sports will become an official event of the Asian Games for the first time at the Hangzhou Asian Games in September this year. E-sports events of this Asian Games include League of Legends, Arena of Valor (Asian Games version), Game for Peace (Asian Games version), Dota 2, Mengsanguo 2, Jieba 5 and FIFA Online 4.
In addition, the Japanese Aichi Nagoya Asian Organizing Committee also confirmed in early July that e-sports will be selected for the 2026 Aichi Nagoya Asian Games, but the specific sports have not yet been announced.
Xiao Hong also said that in 2017, OpenAI launched AI players e-sports in the Dota competition to compete with world-class players. Dota was chosen because the game is very complex, requires teamwork, decision-making, and involves many dimensions. If you can develop an AI model to control Dota, then you can control many games.
Xiao Hong stressed that AI will greatly empower e-sports, and now many professional players are also using AI to practice, and the auxiliary AI of ordinary users will soon meet with players.