The most common genres associated with e-sports are multiplayer online battle arena, first-person shooter, fighting, digital collectible card games, battle royale games, and real-time strategy. (PHOTO: AP/Aaron Favila) E-sports (2019, 2021, 2023)Īnother highly-debatable sport, considering that it is essentially a video-gaming competition. This SEA Games will also include contests for samba, cha cha cha, rumba, pasodoble and the jive.Į-sports players participating in the qualifying rounds to make the Philippine e-sports team for the 2019 SEA Games. Standard competitions are contested in waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow foxtrot and the quickstep. And here’s the biggest challenge: the music is kept confidential until the event, and competitors have to adapt their dance routines and skills to the chosen music. ![]() In contrast to social or exhibition dancing, dancesport competitors are required to sustain a high intensity throughout their performances. While it does have an element of randomness, tournaments try to minimise this by comparing results of multiple team pairs in identical situations.Ĭontract bridge appeared only once in the SEA Games in 2011, but has since made it to the Asian Games programme in 2018 as well. Like chess, contract bridge is a popular, mentally-stimulating card game that is nonetheless recognised by the International Olympic Committee as a sport. It was first included as a SEA Games exhibition sport in 2013, when Myanmar hosted the event for the first time in 44 years, and was combined with the similar sepak takraw competitions in 20. The national sport of Myanmar, Chinlone is usually played non-competitively by individuals passing a rattan ball among one another, without using their hands, and try to keep the ball from hitting the ground. (PHOTO: Singapore SEA Games Organising Committee/Action Images via Reuters) Chinlone (2015, 2017) The Singapore chinlone team in action during the 2015 SEA Games in Singapore. Detractors, however, counter by saying that chess does not make the player physically stronger, and thus cannot be considered a sport. Chess proponents argue that mental exertion during chess competitions manifests itself physically, as players will feel drained and exhausted. While this strategic board game is enjoyed by millions worldwide, the debate remains whether it qualifies as a competitive sport. Since the ball loses most of its bounce on sand, there is little to no dribbling.Īlso, creative or spectacular goals, such as 360 degree jumps and alley-oops, are awarded with two points instead of one. ![]() The game is similar to the Olympic sport of handball, but is played on sand instead of in a sports hall. This combat sport emphasises weapon-based fighting with sticks, knives and bladed weapons, as well as "open hand" or techniques without weapons.Īrnis competitions uses foam-padded sticks with thin rattan cores, and are meant to break before serious injury occurs. This is the national martial art of the Philippines, so naturally it has been included into the SEA Games programme whenever the country hosts the Games in 1995, 20. Here are some of the more obscure or debatable sports that have made the SEA Games sports programme over its 31 editions: Arnis (1995, 2005, 2019, 2023) This has led to accusations that these sports are merely put into the Games programme by the host nations so that they can earn easy golds to pad up their medal tally and rise up the table. Over the decades, more sports were introduced – and they became more and more idiosyncratic to the region, or even the host country alone. The first non-Olympic sport to be included was bowling in 1975, as the sport was widely played around the Southeast Asia region. It is a debate that has dogged the biennial Games ever since it decided to include non-Olympic sports into its sporting programme since the 1970s. ![]() SINGAPORE - Arnis, vovinam, kenpo: Do these obscure sports add a regional flavour to the SEA Games? Or are they pointless distractions that serve only as boosts of the host nations in the medal tally table? (PHOTO: Soe Than Win/AFP via Getty Images) Soukanh Taypanyavong (right) of Laos competes against Tran Anh Tuan (left) of Vietnam during the men's 55kg vovinam final at the 2013 SEA Games in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
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