How Did India Do in Pokemon UNITE at Asian Games 2026?

India went out of Pokemon UNITE at the Asian Games 2026 in the group stage, without a medal. It lost 0-2 to South Korea and 0-2 to Japan to finish third in Group C, then lost 1-2 to Hong Kong in the decider for the eighth and last quarterfinal place. Japan took gold.

So, how did India do in Pokemon UNITE at Asian Games 2026? Three series, three losses. The tournament finished on 27 September; this post is the after-the-fact record, built from the results tables on Wikipedia’s Pokemon UNITE event page, which this desk read on 3 October 2026. Those tables cite the Asian Games 2026 results service. The official results pages themselves did not open to this desk, so the scores below are the tournament’s numbers as compiled there, checked against PTI’s wire report of the opening match.

How did India do in Pokemon UNITE at Asian Games 2026, match by match?

Every series India played at the Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, with game-by-game results from India’s side. Times are as the event page lists them; it does not label a time zone, so this desk has not converted them to IST.

Add it up: two games against South Korea, two against Japan, three against Hong Kong. Seven games played, one won.

What happened in Group C?

Group C was India, South Korea and Japan, per PTI’s report of the opener, carried by Rediff on 25 September.

The group finished Japan first, South Korea second, India third, per the event page’s standings. Japan beat South Korea 2-1 in the other Group C match, coming back after losing the first game. India’s two series were both straight 0-2 results. The page’s points columns did not come back cleanly in this desk’s read, so they are not printed here.

What was the Group Stage Last Selection against Hong Kong?

It was India’s second chance, and the format built it in. Revenant XSpark’s pre-event release, dated 22 September, set it out: ten teams, a four-team Group A and three-team Groups B and C, the top three of A and top two of B and C straight into an eight-team bracket, and the two third-placed teams of B and C playing off for the final spot. (The event page’s own prose says A and C; its tables, like the release, show B against C.)

Hong Kong arrived as Group B’s third team, having lost 0-2 to Singapore and 1-2 to Indonesia. On the evening of 26 September Hong Kong took game one, India levelled with game two, and Hong Kong won game three. That second game is the only one India won in Aichi-Nagoya.

The draw explained in advance is in our groups and format explainer.

Pokemon UNITE Asian Games 2026 results: who won the medals?

The bracket ran on 27 September, best of three except a best-of-five final.

• Quarterfinals: Hong Kong, who knocked India out, lost 0-2 to the Philippines.
• Semifinals: Japan beat South Korea 2-0; Indonesia beat the Philippines 2-0.
• Final: Japan beat Indonesia 3-1, after losing the first game.

The event page lists four medallists: Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea. The two teams that beat India in Group C both finished on the podium, Japan with gold.

Against the pre-event expectations

The squad went in with a real record. Per Sportstar’s preview, updated 24 September, the Revenant XSpark roster won the National Esports Championships 2026 and then finished runner-up at the Asia International Tournament 2026. Coach Zeren Wang told Sportstar the objective was to compete for a medal for India, and captain Badshah said the team was trying for gold. The same piece described about two months of bootcamp at Revenant’s facility in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, with six to eight hours of play a day and sometimes ten.

Set that beside the log and the gap is plain. The group draw put India with the two sides that ended up with gold and a medal, and the decider went to a third game. That is not a collapse; it is a tough group and one series that slipped late. It is also short of the medal the squad named as its target. Our pre-tournament assessment of India’s team has the player-by-player picture that this result now tests.

Frequently asked questions

Did India win a medal in Pokemon UNITE at the Asian Games 2026?

No. India’s Pokemon UNITE team went out before the quarterfinals, after losing both Group C matches and then the decider for the last playoff spot to Hong Kong, 1-2. The four medallists in the event were Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea, per the results tables on the Wikipedia event page this desk read on 3 October 2026.

Who won gold in Pokemon UNITE at the Asian Games 2026?

Japan, the host nation. It beat Indonesia 3-1 in the best-of-five final on 27 September at the Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, after dropping the first game. Indonesia took silver, and the two beaten semi-finalists, the Philippines and South Korea, are both listed as medallists, per the event page’s tables.

Who did India lose to in Pokemon UNITE at the Asian Games?

Three teams. South Korea beat India 0-2 in the Group C opener on 25 September, Japan beat India 0-2 on 26 September, and Hong Kong beat India 2-1 later on 26 September in the Group Stage Last Selection, the match between the third-placed teams of Groups B and C. India won the second game against Hong Kong.

Who is in India’s Pokemon UNITE team for the Asian Games 2026?

The Revenant XSpark roster: Adnan Mohammed Badshah (Badshah, captain), Reuben Godfrey Fernandes (Reuben), Sai Krishna Nalluri (Vulcan), Dipjyoti Laxman Nath (Disapple) and Rudra Narayan Nayak (Rex), with Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel as substitute and Zeren Wang as coach, per the team’s 22 September release. Sportstar’s preview names Badshah as captain.

The short version

Three series, seven games, one game won, out on day two. Crick Patrol covers the Games the way it covers any LAN: as competition, with every score tied to the page it came from. No odds, no picks, no fantasy-cash angle here or anywhere on this site. The scrim grind that put six Indian players on a stage in Tokoname was real, and so is the scoreboard.