Academician becomes Malaysia's first eSports champion in the Sea Games

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NSTsports: Academician Dr Yew Weng Keng, a PhD holder in electronic engineering, is now the King of Hearthstone in Southeast Asia.

The 29-year-old defeated a host of eSports junkies to win the Sea Games gold medal in Hearthstone, an online digital card game originally subtitled Heroes of Warcraft.Weng Keng, an assistant professor of Heriot-Watt University Malaysia in Putrajaya, is known in the Malaysian eSports community as wkyew90.“This gold medal is meaningful not only for me but for Malaysia as I am the country’s first eSports champion in the Sea Games,” said Weng Keng after the medal presentation yesterday.

“It is the world’s fastest-growing sport and I hope parents will not see it as a bad thing as electronic games can actually help a person think more strategically and critically.

 

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