Watch 30th SEA Games Opening Ceremony Live and Replay

Where to watch the 30th SEA Games Opening Ceremony Live and Replay? This will be the fourth time that the Philippines will host the games and its first time since 2005. Previously, it had also hosted the 1981 and 1991 editions of the games. This edition is most notable for being the first edition to include e-sports and obstacle course as well as having the highest number of sports in the history of the games, at 57.


In November 2018, it was reported that TV5 was negotiating for the broadcasting rights for the games in the Philippines. ABS-CBN, PTV and 5 will telecast the games on free TV, with ABS-CBN and PTV solely providing the coverage for the opening ceremonies.

The opening ceremony will be reportedly inspired from the opening ceremonies of the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The organizers have announced plans to conduct a digital lighting of the flame during the event but added they have a backup plan for a "normal, traditional opening ceremony". FiveCurrents, the live content creators that produced the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, is also tapped as producers for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games opening ceremonies. Negotiations are also ongoing to get Apl.de.ap, a Filipino-American artist, to perform on the opening ceremony. Previously the organizers negotiated with another Filipino-American artist, Bruno Mars, to do the same.

The closing ceremony will be held in the athletics stadium in New Clark City.



Usually the official broadcaster of SEA Games are live streaming all the games at their respective YouTube Channel. So you can check ABS-CBN Sports and ESPN 5 YouTube Channel to watch the 2019 SEA Games Live Stream online.

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