Seven-year-old Pokemon player Simone Lim is Singapore's youngest e-sports champion

SINGAPORE - Simone Lim had the easy air of a seasoned campaigner, and not that of a seven-year-old who had just snatched victory from the defending champion.

This combination of precocity and adorableness propelled Simone to overnight Internet fame, after her unlikely triumph against Canadian defending champion Justin Miranda-Radbord, 10. The games are played on Nintendo consoles like the Switch and are distinct from the mobile app Pokemon Go. In competitive Pokemon, two players face off with squads of six Pokemon each. The goal is to knock out all of the other side's creatures by using a variety of attacks before yours are knocked out.Simone has been playing competitive Pokemon for only less than a year, her parents told The Straits Times on Saturday.

Her two older brothers Theodore, 13, and Alvin, 10, play a variant of Pokemon that involves physical 60-card decks.Simone's father said he introduced Pokemon to his children as a way to teach them about financial concepts, but discovered that playing competitively could teach his children valuable lessons hard to come by at this early stage in life.

It is still early days for Simone, who is blissfully unaware of her status as an Internet sensation, but Pokemon has already made its mark on her in significant ways.

Esports (if the first word of a sentence) or esports. Not e-sports, or E-Sports, or eSports or e-Sports or whatever. Like email. Not e-mail or anything of the sort.

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