A-Best - Southeast Asian Games TV Openers (2003-2019) | Compilation

The Southeast Asian Games, or the SEA Games, involve participants from 11 Southeast Asian countries. Held every two years, the games is under regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supervision by the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Council of Asia. The Southeast Asian Games owes its origins to the South East Asian Peninsular Games or SEAP Games. On 22 May 1958, delegates from the countries in Southeast Asian Peninsula attending the 3rd Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan had a meeting and agreed to establish a sport organisation. The SEAP Games was conceptualized by Luang Sukhum Nayaoradit, then Vice-President of the Thailand Olympic Committee. The proposed rationale was that a regional sports event will help promote co-operation, understanding and relations among countries in the Southeast Asian region. The first SEAP Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand from 12-17 December 1959 comprising more than 527 athletes and officials from Thailand, Burma, Malaya (now Malaysia), Singapore, South Vietnam and Laos participating in 12 sports. At the 1975 SEAP Games in Bangkok, the SEAP Federation considered the inclusion of Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. These countries were formally admitted in 1977, the same year when SEAP Federation changed their name to Southeast Asian Games Federation (SEAGF), and the games were known as the Southeast Asian Games. East Timor was admitted at the 2003 SEA Games in Vietnam. The games is unique in that it has no official limits to the number of sports to be contested, and the range can be decided by the organizing host pending approval by the Southeast Asian Games Federation. Albeit for core sports that must be featured, the host is also free to drop or introduce other events. 1. 22nd - Hanoi, Vietnam (2003) 2. 23rd - Manila, Philippines (2005) 3. 24th - Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (2007) 4. 25th - Vientiane, Laos (2009) 5. 26th - Jakarta & Palembang, Indonesia (2011) 6. 27th - Naypyidaw, Myanmar (2013) 7. 28th - Singapore (2015) 8. 29th - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2017) 9. 30th - Philippines (2019)