With the participation of more than 1000 players representing 10 provinces
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth honors the winners of the PlayStation electronic tournament
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, represented by the General Directorate of Sports Activities, celebrated the winners of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth Championship for electronic games, the first of its kind, organized by the Ministry remotely (online) during the period from June to last August; With the participation of more than 1,000 players representing 10 governorates, the participants competed in the football game (FIFA 21), which is one of the most popular and widespread competitions in the Sultanate and the world. The tournament targeted e-sports youth aged 12-34 years.
In organizing this tournament, the Ministry sought to achieve a number of goals, the most important of which is the establishment of an official competition adopted by the Ministry, the first of its kind for e-sports, targeting a large segment of youth practicing e-sports and exploiting their energies and skills in healthy competition, as well as establishing an activity that matches the requirements of the current period that is passing The Sultanate and the world of the need for social distancing. As well as the interest in developing the capabilities of young people in all fields to qualify them to compete in regional and international competitions and achieve advanced positions.
Statistics from the tournament
The number of players participating in the tournament reached 1024 representing 10 governorates represented in 47 states, and the number of matches in the tournament reached 1027 matches, while the number of goals in the tournament reached 4,093 goals.
Tournament winners
The first place and championship champion Fahd bin Abdul Rahman bin Abdul-Rasoul Al-Hasani, while the second place went to Ghassan bin Salem bin Ali Al-Wahaibi, the third place went to Ibrahim bin Mohammed bin Sheikhan Al-Kindi, and the fourth place went to Amjad bin Khalid bin Hamad Al-Saadi. His brother, Muayyad bin Khalid bin Hamad Al-Saadi, won fifth place.
Fahd Al-Hasani, the champion of the tournament, explained that “the tournament was beautiful, and that the ministry and the committee made a great effort to come up with this organized tournament.” players participating in the tournament. Al-Hassani praised the level of the players participating in the tournament, “who were striving to achieve advanced positions, but they were not lucky. Thankfully, this tournament was my part, which I seek not to be the last tournament, hoping that there will be foreign participations in this field.”
“I wish I was present”
As for Ghassan Al-Wahaibi, the owner of the runner-up, he wished that the next tournament would be in person and not from a distance, because the quality of the internet did not help many of the participants, and thus the quality affected the players, noting at the same time that the tournament witnessed great technical levels and that he initially did not expect to get second place, but With the continuation of the competition, I was able to win, reach the final and achieve second place.
New players
As for Abdul Rahman Al-Kindi, the third-place winner, he indicated that holding the competition remotely gave the competition another luster, which is the appearance of new players, while in the past most of the players were acquainted with each other. A match and finally managed to reach the podiums.
