{"id":107721,"date":"2016-10-11T11:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107721"},"modified":"2016-10-11T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:39:08","slug":"one-of-the-biggest-upsets-in-south-african-esports-happened-at-rage-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107721-one-of-the-biggest-upsets-in-south-african-esports-happened-at-rage-2016","title":{"rendered":"One of the biggest upsets in South African eSports happened at rAge 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you familiar with South African eSports will be familiar with the name “Bravado Gaming”.<\/p>\n

For better or worse, the MGO has consistently dominated South African Dota 2 and CS:GO tournaments.<\/p>\n

Which is why it was a massive upset when White Rabbit Gaming came out on top of this weekend’s Telkom DGL Masters Dota 2 finals.<\/p>\n

White Rabbit released the following statement about the event:<\/p>\n

After a year of tireless practice and dedication the White Rabbit Gaming Dota 2 team managed to defeat their biggest rivals in a fantastic showcase of South African eSports. Bravado Gaming (who placed second) had been the reigning champions for the past two years, and dominant in every competition for the past four.<\/p>\n

For the entirety of 2016 the White Rabbit Gaming Dota 2 team trailed behind the Bravado Gaming squad, finishing second at numerous tournaments throughout the competitive year. After a recent team change, and a considerate amount of practice, they were able to defeat the reigning champions in front of a fully packed crowd backing their road to victory. The three matches were extremely close, and provided an insight into a new level of Dota 2 which is emerging in South Africa. The White Rabbit Gaming team defeated Bravado 2-1 in the Grand Finals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Now read:\u00a0Telkom DGL Masters R1 million Esports tournament results<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How one team pulled a Rabbit out of the hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":107723,"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":[31,637,1611,17306,2163],"class_list":["post-107721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-pc","tag-active","tag-dota","tag-esports","tag-rage-2016","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107721","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=107721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107725,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107721\/revisions\/107725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}