{"id":115203,"date":"2017-02-07T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115203"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:50:06","slug":"telkom-reveals-r1-5-million-prize-pool-for-dgl-masters-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/115203-telkom-reveals-r1-5-million-prize-pool-for-dgl-masters-2017","title":{"rendered":"Telkom reveals R1.5-million prize pool for DGL Masters 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced that the prize pool for its 2017 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalgamingleague.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">DGL Masters<\/a><\/strong> competitive gaming tournament will be R1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The DGL Masters sees the biggest gaming organisations in South Africa competing in\u00a0Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and FIFA 17.<\/p>\n<p>10\u00a0of the best multi-gaming organisations in South Africa will field teams for each game and compete for a share of the prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-implemented DGL Masters FIFA tournaments are open to all FIFA players attending the Masters events and will feature a combined prize pool of R120,000.<\/p>\n<p>Bravado Gaming placed first in the DGL Masters Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament last year, with White Rabbit Gaming winning the Dota 2 title.<\/p>\n<p>The DGL Masters prize pool does not include the prize pool for the two Masters Cup tournaments to be held earlier in the year, which boast a prize pool of R110,000 each.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197693-telkom-announces-r1-5-million-prize-pool-for-dgl-masters-tournament.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197347-south-african-maths-and-physics-genius-launches-map-blitz-puzzle-game.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South African maths and physics genius launches Map Blitz puzzle game<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced that the prize pool for its 2017 DGL Masters competitive gaming tournament will be R1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":87004,"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":[20,3],"tags":[787,1611,287],"class_list":["post-115203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pc","tag-dgl","tag-esports","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115203","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}