{"id":108819,"date":"2016-10-20T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108819"},"modified":"2016-10-20T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T13:33:49","slug":"sony-and-esl-bring-competitive-gaming-to-the-playstation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/108819-sony-and-esl-bring-competitive-gaming-to-the-playstation-4","title":{"rendered":"Sony and ESL bring competitive gaming to the PlayStation 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has partnered with ESL to\u00a0introduce a new <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2016\/10\/20\/introducing-playstation-tournaments\/?adbsc=social_20161020_67068236\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tournaments<\/strong> <\/a>feature to the PlayStation 4.<\/p>\n<p>This feature will allow players\u00a0to participate in tournaments\u00a0across a variety of supported games.<\/p>\n<p>The first Major tournament will be for<strong> NBA 2K17<\/strong>, and will run from <strong>27 October\u00a0&#8211; 26 November<\/strong>,\u00a0with Major Cup rounds occurring every Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The top three finalists\u00a0of the tournament will receive a prize pack which\u00a0includes a number of PlayStation accessories.<\/p>\n<p>A PlayStation Plus subscription is required in order to enter a tournament for any game, and you will also have to create or link an ESL account before registering for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Tournaments currently only support 1v1 matches and can be located\u00a0under the Events section on the PS4 system menu.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The best Skyrim mods won\u2019t work on PlayStation 4\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/108683-the-best-skyrim-mods-wont-work-on-playstation-4.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best Skyrim mods won\u2019t work on PlayStation 4<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has partnered with ESL to bring native tournament support to the PlayStation 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":105485,"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":[11681],"tags":[31,15157,1611,2664,21811,1853,18933,17795],"class_list":["post-108819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-competitive","tag-esports","tag-gaming","tag-pro","tag-playstation4","tag-slim","tag-tournaments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108819","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=108819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}