{"id":108869,"date":"2016-10-25T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108869"},"modified":"2016-10-25T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:31:49","slug":"south-african-esports-platform-lets-you-earn-money-from-competitive-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/108869-south-african-esports-platform-lets-you-earn-money-from-competitive-gaming","title":{"rendered":"South African eSports platform lets you earn money from competitive gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new and award-winning online gaming platform designed to give South African gamers and eSport athletes unprecedented power to organise their own tournaments\u00a0is\u00a0gaining international recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming Battle Ground (GBG) beat hundreds of other startups from around the world to be\u00a0pitched on stage at the prestigious<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eigexpo.com\/start-launchpad\" target=\"_blank\"> EIG Expo Startup Launch Pad<\/a><\/strong> in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Although the company did not win the startup competition,\u00a0GBG was approached by several interested venture capitalists after the event and will be negotiating with a number of them in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>GBG allows players to earn rewards and cash by\u00a0competing in eight games including Starcraft 2, DOTA 2, League of Legends and CS:GO.<\/p>\n<p>Competitive gamers will have to pay an entry fee in order to enter a tournament and can earn rewards and cash prize from placing well.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament hosts earn 10% of the entry fee for hosting a tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to sign up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingbattleground.co.za\/\"> gamingbattleground.co.za<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click the login\/signup button to register.<\/li>\n<li>Create your profile on the GBG dashboard <strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/dashboard.gamingbattleground.co.za\/home\">https:\/\/dashboard.gamingbattleground.co.za\/home<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Browse and join the tournaments available or create and host your own tournament by inviting players or challenging friends to compete.<\/li>\n<li>Qualify for prize money if chosen tournament has a prize on offer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The games your parents said were a waste of time could make you rich\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/108227-the-games-your-parents-said-were-a-waste-of-time-could-make-you-rich.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The games your parents said were a waste of time could make you rich<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coolest gaming idea coming out of South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":92079,"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":[3],"tags":[31,22955,22959,2163,22957],"class_list":["post-108869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-eig-expo","tag-gaming-battle-ground","tag-south-africa","tag-start-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108869","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109155,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108869\/revisions\/109155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}