Indonesia's Reasons For Only Joining Six Esports Match Numbers At The Cambodian SEA Games

The reason why Indonesia only sent six esports numbers at the CAMBOja SEA Games (photo: PBESI)

JAKARTA - The 2023 SEA Games will soon take place in Cambodia starting May 5. Currently, every sport (sports) has started to conduct national selection and also national training for athletes.

From esports sport itself, SEA Games 32 has nine match numbers, including:

However, Indonesia only fielded six match numbers, namely Mobile Legends Bang men and women, PUBG Mobile solo and team, Valorant, and also Free Fire.

Talking about the Indonesian national team which only sent good numbers, Tjahjono Prasetyanto as Chairman of the 2023 Cambodia National Team of SEA Games said the reason for the decision.

According to him, Indonesia really has potential and is very good at controlling the game. So, that is the basis for the decision why only the six numbers will be sent by Indonesia.

"Actually, of the 9 games that will be competed in the 2023 Cambodian SEA Games, every country outside the host is given a 7 game slot. However, we only chose 6 categories because only the 6 games we really controlled and had potential," said Tjahjono, citing the Instagram of the Indonesian Esports Executive Board (PBESI), Monday, February 13.

Currently, Indonesian esports sport is still in the process of national selection, where later the selected athletes will continue to the national training so that they are ready to compete at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia.