Since February 21, the day of the official opening of Games of the Future, 100 thousand residents and guests of the capital of Tatarstan have visited the phygital space at Kazan Expo.
For the anniversary visitor of the Games of the Future City, Ekaterina Nabiullina from Kazan, the organizers together with Roscosmos have prepared a special gift – the guest will receive an invitation to visit the Vostochny Cosmodrome and watch the launch of the carrier rocket in 2024.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the presidents of the CIS countries, who attended the Opening Ceremony of the tournament, were the first to visit the Games of the Future City.
Over the course of 7 days, the exhibition was also visited by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation Oleg Matytsin, ex-captain of the Russian national football team Alexey Smertin, figure skater Kamila Valieva, the KHL President Alexey Morozov, legends of national hockey Pavel Datsyuk, Danis Zaripov, Sergey Mozyakin and basketball – Sergey Monya, Timofey Mozgov, Sergey Panov, mixed martial arts fighters Alexey Oleynik and Alexander Emelianenko, head of the International Boxing Association Umar Kremlev, Olympic champions Evgeny Tishchenko, Yury Borzakovsky, Svetlana Zhurova, Svetlana Ishmuratova, Ilya Zakharov, Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of the Russian Federation cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and many others.
It should be noted that the Games of the Future City is a modern exhibition space in the format of an interactive exhibition and an educational and entertainment center, where everyone has the opportunity to plunge into the world of phygital sports.
The Games of the Future City is open daily. Here, visitors can watch match broadcasts, try themselves as a phygital athlete on floorball, rugby, golf, squash, fencing, boxing and inclusive esports, as well as visit the areas of tournament partners and leading domestic companies. In addition, meetings and autograph sessions with sports and show business stars are held here. Thus, the visitors have already met the football player Artem Dzyuba, the ex-football player of the Russian national team Andrey Arshavin, blogger Vlad A4, ambassador of RUTUBE Vanya Dmitrienko, the Olympic champion in figure skating Alina Zagitova, the Olympic champion in gymnastics Arthur Dalaloyan.
Information:
Games of the Future is an international multisport tournament in the phygital concept, a sports show of a new format combining competitions in physical and digital dimensions. The technology partner is VK Play. More than 270 teams and more than 2,000 athletes from 107 countries are taking part in 21 innovative disciplines in the first Games of the Future. The competitions are divided into five categories, or challenges: sports, tactical, battle, technical, speedrun.
Title Sponsor is PAO Gazprom
General Sponsors:
PAO Gazprom Neft G-Drive
PAO Sibur Holding Sibur
OAO Russian Railways
OOO VK Company VK Play
PAO Sberbank SBER
OOO PMBK (Liga Stavok)
OOO INTERROS Holding Company Interros
PAO Megafon Yota
Official sponsors:
OOO PBO System – Vkusno – i Tochka
PAO Sollers / UAZ
PAO Aeroflot
OOO Wildberries
OOO NTS Gradient – Influence
Roscosmos State Corporation
AO Positive Technologies
AO Russian Post
OOO Nanobarrier – HyDrop
AO Kaspersky Laboratory – Kaspersky
More information about the tournament can be found on the official channels of Games of the Future: