Japanese 11-Year-Old Wins Asian Games eSports Gold
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This schoolgirl with glasses, considered the youngest competitor of the Games of Aichi-Nagoya, won 10-2 in the finals of the Puyo Puyo Champions tournament. He was already the youngest athlete in the host country, Japan, in the history of the Asian Games. Puyo Puyo Champions is a puzzle video game in which players have to clean their screen of colored blocks by aligning them and blowing them up. Impassive throughout the competition, Kurihara cli…
Kang Dong-shin won a silver medal after losing to Japan's Yuki Kurihara in the Puyo Puyo esports final at the 2026 Aichi Nagoya Asian Games. This achievement was accomplished by overcoming the lack of domestic infrastructure and marks the first medal secured by Korea in the Puyo Puyo event at this tournament.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Juhwan Kim = Dongshin Kang (24), who participated in the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games esports 'Puyo Puyo Champions', is Japan's 'game prodigy'...
Kang Dong-shin (25), representing South Korea in "Puyo Puyo," was unable to overcome Japan's Yuki Kurihara (11). He won the silver medal.
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