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E-Sports and Asian Culture Daniel Beckwith Kyle Young Hypothesis Because of a recent change in culture , Asian gamers have come to dominate the e-sports scene and Asian athletes have improved their performance in the Olympics . Methodology

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E-Sports and Asian Culture

Daniel Beckwith Kyle Young

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Hypothesis

Because of a recent change in culture, Asian gamers have come to dominate the e-sports scene and Asian athletes have improved their performance in the Olympics.

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Methodology

Collected data on highest-earning e-sports players from tournament winnings

○ Chose 5 most popular games: DOTA 2, League of Legends, StarCraft II, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and Smite ○ Collected total tournament winnings and total number of players participating in tournaments for the top 10 countries (by winnings) for each game

Collected data on Olympic medal wins and participation

○ Collected total number of games participated in and total number of bronze, silver, and gold medals (across Summer and Winter games) per country

Tried to determine from this data if Asian countries produce higher-performing

gamers and athletes

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Assumptions

E-Sports players who win the most money are the best players
The 5 chosen games are a good representation of the data from all the games
Countries have equal opportunities to earn medals in the Olympics (population

is not a factor)

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Results

Asian gamers win a much larger portion

than expected of e-sports tournaments: 55.9% versus 28.4%

Asian Olympians win only a slightly larger

portion than expected of medals: 6.93% versus 5.48%

DOTA 2 Country Name Prize Money Players China $22,226,053.65 153 United States $6,792,869.40 72 Sweden $3,922,192.13 97 Canada $3,560,817.09 23 Ukraine $3,346,695.38 47 Russian Federation $2,003,327.31 148 Pakistan $1,721,269.74 2 Malaysia $1,547,186.31 48 Singapore $1,232,321.26 32 Germany $1,218,210.70 37

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Conclusion

Traditional Asian culture is said to be one that is highly focused on that of

learning and education in order to secure a brighter future

Modern Asian culture has become more accepting of those who focus on

things other than education

Still a drive to excel, but focus has been shifted to other things such as e-

sports