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Singapore Toggle Dropdown Asia Toggle Dropdown World Toggle Dropdown Opinion Toggle Dropdown Life Toggle Dropdown Business Toggle Dropdown Tech Toggle Dropdown Sport Toggle Dropdown More Toggle DropdownSingapore's three-man eSports side, Team Flash, won the East Asian Champions Cup Spring 2018, the largest international tournament for the Fifa Online 3 game, qualifying them for the eWorld Cup in June. PHOTO: FACEBOOK/EA SPORTS FIFA ONLINE 3 SINGAPORE
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SINGAPORE - It"s history in the making: Singapore has reached the football World Cup ... well, sort of.
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The country"s three-man eSports side, Team Flash, won the East Asian Champions Cup Spring 2018, the largest international tournament for the Fifa Online 3 game, qualifying them for the eWorld Cup in June.
Not only did they clinch Singapore"s first international gold in a Fifa tournament, they also took trang chủ US$108,000 (S$142,000) out of the US$239,000 prize pool.
Competitors from South Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietphái nam, Indonesia, xứ sở của những nụ cười thân thiện Thái Lan & Singapore took part in the Asian leg.
After a 3-2 semi-final win over Đài Loan Trung Quốc, Team Flash faced the trang chính team Đất Nước Thái Lan in the final, emerging victorious with a 3-0 win. Previously, Singapore"s best place was third and a US$60,000 prize.
The team consisted of Amraan Gani Musa Bakar, 23, & 24-year-old Joseph Yeo - both part of the 2016 team - & China"s Fifa Esports player of the year, Si Jun Li, 26.
Si joined Team Flash after a new rule this year permitted one foreign player in each three-person team.
The win comes as the local eSports scene kicks off, with the launch of Singapore"s first eSports Academy last year và the announcement of the first Asean eSports tournament to lớn be held here later this year.
ESports will be included in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Đài Loan Trung Quốc, and it may be in the 2024 summer Olympics in Paris.
"Wins lượt thích this prove sầu that Singapore has talent và Singaporeans have what it takes to lớn succeed on an international stage," said Mr Nicholas Khoo, co-founder of Singapore"s Cybersports và Online Gaming Association.
Singapore squad takes trang chính more than S$86,000 after third-place finish in Fifa Online 3 tournament
"It is a validation of the possible viability of a pursuing a career in eSports."
Mr Khoo noted the potential huge returns from the sport, citing Singaporeans like Daryl Koh "iceiceice" Pei Xiang, who have sầu won over US$1 million in prize money as part of a team representing Đài Loan Trung Quốc in competitions lượt thích The International Dota 2 Championships.
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The eWorld Cup will give sầu Team Flash the chance lớn get a slice of the US$300,000 prize pool &, of course, claim the world title.
But it will be a different version of the game used in the Asian round so the team will have sầu lớn train even harder.
Team manager Terence Ting, 27, is "confident of their ability lớn adapt to lớn a new game engine".
They trained for about two hours a day and then eight to lớn 12 hours a day in the week leading up lớn the competition so with the challenging road ahead, "their schedule will be even more rigorous".
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