{"id":100425,"date":"2016-08-02T08:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T06:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100425"},"modified":"2016-08-02T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T06:42:14","slug":"counter-strike-world-championship-african-qualifiers-kick-off-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100425-counter-strike-world-championship-african-qualifiers-kick-off-tomorrow","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Strike World Championship African Qualifiers kick off tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The African Qualifiers for The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive World Championship 2016 kick off tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The best CS:GO players in South Africa from Bravado Gaming<\/strong>,Carbon eSports<\/strong>, Aperture Gaming<\/strong>, and eNergy eSports<\/strong> have been recruited to form\u00a0the Southern Barbarians<\/strong><\/a>, who will face off against the best teams in Africa for a spot at the main event.<\/p>\n

The Qualifiers will be played from 3-6 August<\/strong> and will consist of a Round Robin best-of-one Group Stage, followed by two best-of-three Semi Final matches, and the best-of-five Grand Finals.<\/p>\n

The winner of the African Qualifiers will go on to compete in The World Championship main event in Belgrade, Serbia\u00a0from 12-16 October<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Check out the African Qualifiers groups and competing teams below:<\/p>\n

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The Southern Barbarians are not Team South Africa and do not represent the official South African CS:GO team.<\/em><\/p>\n

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South Africa’s top Counter-Strike players are set to take on the rest of the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":97838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[31,18831,15157,20989,6385,1611,2664,20991,20993,18917],"class_list":["post-100425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-pc","tag-active","tag-championship","tag-competitive","tag-counter","tag-csgo","tag-esports","tag-gaming","tag-strike","tag-twc","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}