To get to the future of sport you must walk past a hairdresser at BritAma Arena, take a left at the baker, climb one floor and enter a hall where a machine blows smoke. This is the no-sunlight land of e-sports where you will find the sitting-down champions of Asia.

It's Wednesday afternoon and digital jockeys, who are riding swivel chairs, are playing League Of Legends in the China-South Korea final. It is played on a PC platform not a phone and this contest is reflected on a giant screen where characters are routinely killing each other. Like other sports they will argue this is only make-believe war. Indeed, one of their stars is called Faker.