{"id":110007,"date":"2016-11-05T01:40:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T23:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=110007"},"modified":"2016-11-05T02:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T00:16:23","slug":"overwatch-league-blizzards-new-pro-league-that-has-no-plans-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110007-overwatch-league-blizzards-new-pro-league-that-has-no-plans-for-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch League: Blizzard&#8217;s new pro league that has no plans for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has announced the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/overwatchleague.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Overwatch League<\/a><\/strong>, an e-sports league for its team-based shooter that will draw on the best practices of traditional sporting leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Each team in the Overwatch\u00a0League will represent a major city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teams will have stability, players will have careers, and fans will have a new set of heroes to take them into the future of Overwatch,&#8221; Blizzard said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our plan is to expand the league over time to include additional teams from the Americas, Europe, China, Korea, and the Asia Pacific region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent from Blizzard&#8217;s plans for the Overwatch League are Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard details how team ownership and player contracts will work in the &#8220;Path to Glory&#8221; video below,\u00a0with a focus on stability. Once accepted, teams will have a guaranteed spot in the league and players will have a contract that includes compensation and benefits.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-p5V4nQU5k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OFHpK627XkI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109253-more-big-changes-coming-to-overwatch-competitive-play.html\">More big changes coming to Overwatch competitive play.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard hopes to combine its experience in e-sports with the best-practices of traditional sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":110009,"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":[3,11681,4],"tags":[665,10096],"class_list":["post-110007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-blizzard","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110007","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\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}