[4][5] AliSports, the sports arm of Chinese multinational technology company, Alibaba Group, partnered with the Olympic Council of Asia to bring esports to the Asian Games.

[6] A qualification tournament called AESF Road to Asian Games 2022 was played earlier for all titles featured.

[7] The results of this tournament were also used to determine the countries' seedings for the upcoming Games, with no participants being eliminated through this event.

[8][9] But in March 2023, the Olympic Council of Asia approved a decision to remove Hearthstone from the announced list of events due to the closure of Blizzard service in mainland China.

[11] A total of 475 athletes from 30 nations competed in esports at the 2022 Asian Games:[12]