Major faculty pupil Yuki Kurihara made a flying begin as he turned the youngest athlete at this yr’s Asian Video games.
The 11-year-old eSports star beat opponents nearly thrice his age in his native Japan on Thursday.
The teenager competes in Puyo Puyo Champions, a puzzle recreation just like Tetris which was developed in Japan.
Gamers attempt to clear their display screen of colored blobs by lining them up and popping them, creating chain reactions known as ‘dairensa’.
Kurihara beat all 4 opponents to high Group A and he’ll try and win gold on Saturday.
“The perfect feeling on the planet is profitable,” Kurihara told the Japan Times., external “Once I lose, I cry and take a look at not to consider it an excessive amount of. When the play does not go effectively it is not enjoyable, so I wish to give up. However I all the time come again.
“I hope to win a gold medal for Japan.”
Japan’s youngest athlete in Asian Video games historical past might additionally develop into the competitors’s youngest ever medallist.
Indonesia’s Bunga Nyimas holds the file, having received bronze in girls’s skateboarding aged 12 in 2018.
eSports has appeared within the earlier two editions of the Asian Video games, with Puyo Puyo being one in all 11 medal occasions this yr.
Kurihara says he eats eel to arrange for contests and secured his place on the Japan staff at simply 10 years outdated.
In February he beat an grownup skilled to win Sega’s Puyo Puyo Grand Prix Ultimate and he turned professional himself in April – two months earlier than his eleventh birthday.
The Asian Video games are being held in Nagoya and the broader Aichi space from 19 September to 4 October.