{"id":102847,"date":"2016-08-31T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T08:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102847"},"modified":"2016-08-31T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T08:35:42","slug":"south-africas-largest-ever-console-competition-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/102847-south-africas-largest-ever-console-competition-announced","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s largest ever console competition announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-paying eSports in South Africa has typically been the realm of PC gamers, with organisations like the Telkom DO Gaming League offering up massive prizes for DOTA 2 and CounterStrike: GO players.<\/p>\n<p>That is until <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/acgl.co.za\/magcup\" target=\"_blank\">The Call of Duty World League Monster Astro Gaming Cup<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0presented by PlayStation was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will see the country&#8217;s 64 best Call of Duty teams battle it out in an online tournament from 10-18 September.<\/p>\n<p>The top eight teams will then duke it out in a LAN final at rAge 2016 from 7 to 9 October.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full list of prizes up for grab below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1st Prize<\/strong>: R60 000 , R20 000 worth of ASTRO Gaming Gear, R5 000 KontrolFreek Hamper, Case of Original Monster Energy Drink per player, Monster Energy Swag<\/li>\n<li><strong>2nd Prize<\/strong>: R25 000, Case of Original Monster Energy Drink per player<\/li>\n<li><strong>3rd Prize<\/strong>: R10 000, 6 pack of Original Monster Energy Drink per player<\/li>\n<li><strong>4th Prize<\/strong>: R8 000<\/li>\n<li><strong>5th Prize<\/strong>: R5 000<\/li>\n<li><strong>6th Prize<\/strong>: R5 000<\/li>\n<li><strong>7th Prize<\/strong>: R3 500<\/li>\n<li><strong>8th Prize<\/strong>: R3 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 8 amazing PlayStation Now games to play on your PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102493-8-amazing-playstation-now-games-to-play-on-your-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">8 amazing PlayStation Now games to play on your PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to You can now play more than 400 PS3 games on your PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102831-you-can-now-play-more-than-400-ps3-games-on-your-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can now play more than 400 PS3 games on your PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The massive new changes arriving in the next Pokemon GO update\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/102805-the-massive-new-changes-arriving-in-the-next-pokemon-go-update.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The massive new changes arriving in the next Pokemon GO update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the massive prizes up for grabs in South Africa&#8217;s biggest ever console competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":83399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681,4],"tags":[31,18657,23,217],"class_list":["post-102847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-biggest","tag-call-of-duty","tag-mweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102847","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102851,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102847\/revisions\/102851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}