On September 1, the Phygital Games 2024 started at the forum and festival Territory of the Future. Moscow 2030 in the Luzhniki sports complex. Center-invest Bank is the official partner of the event and supports the team from the Don State Technical University.
The Phygital Games 2024 will include the Russian Phygital Sports Championship 2024 in the Rhythm Simulator and Tactical Shooting disciplines and the National Qualification in Phygital Football and Phygital Basketball.
The comprehensive development and popularisation of innovative intellectual sports are enshrined in a tripartite agreement signed by the All-Russian Federation of Phygital Sports, the Don State Technical University, and the Center-invest Bank in March 2024 at the international series of tournaments Future Games in Kazan.
"Our bank strives to support initiatives aimed at developing the youth and student community. We highly value the prospects of phygital sports in Russia and have become one of the first financial institutions to support its development. Our contribution today is an investment in the future, where a healthy lifestyle, teamwork and the desire for success unite young people in sports and entrepreneurship," comments Yuri Bogdanov, Director for Innovations at Center-invest Bank.
The games will last until September 8, and the participants will be teams that have qualified for regional and interregional competitions in June-September 2024. The winning teams will receive the right to represent Russia and participate in the international qualification, and if they collect a sufficient number of ranking points, a direct ticket to the Future Games 2025 in the UAE.
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The first national selections for phygital sports were held in Russia in 2023 among 1,800 athletes from 40 regions of the country. Center-invest Bank became the main partner of the interregional qualifying stage of the games and supported the team from DSTU at the All-Russian stage of the phygital sports championship, where the team won 1st place. With the support of Center-invest Bank, DSTU students took part in the Future Games international multisport tournament in Kazan and showed an excellent level of preparation.
The Future Games is an international multisport tournament in the phygital concept, a sports show of a new format that combines competitions in the physical and digital dimensions. The next Future Games will be held in the United Arab Emirates in the autumn 2025.