Southeast Asian eSport players in search of recognition ahead of their “Olympic Games” Playing up to 10 hours a day, seven days a week, eSports "athletes" train hard ahead of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Manila later this year. For many of them, the hardest part is building a national team at home. The lack of sponsors and official federation and disapproving elders make it challenging. But thanks to its fast-booming eSports community, Vietnam for instance, will be sending six teams to the Philippines to play Dota2, Hearthstone, Tekken 7, Starcraft II, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and AoV. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES