{"id":116973,"date":"2017-04-20T13:26:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116973"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:27:27","slug":"samsung-and-mettlestate-launch-r1-million-gaming-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/116973-samsung-and-mettlestate-launch-r1-million-gaming-tournament","title":{"rendered":"Samsung and Mettlestate launch R1-million gaming tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has partnered with local eSports studio Mettlestate to host a R1-million gaming tournament in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The competition features 24 of South Africa\u2019s top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams competing for the grand prize \u2013 the biggest ever for a single eSports title in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is already underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Galaxy CS: GO Championship is hosted by Mettlestate and Twitch, and the grand final will take place on 7 May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>eSports fans can watch the competition live on Mettlestate via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDkdyqbZZ3cplajB1n5DJeA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/mettlestate\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitch<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/207688-r1-million-prize-pool-for-samsung-galaxy-cs-go-championship.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\/206684-esl-unveils-r2-million-gaming-tournament-for-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">ESL unveils R2-million gaming tournament for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has partnered with local eSports studio Mettlestate to host a R1-million gaming tournament in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":97926,"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":[1611,24091,6938],"class_list":["post-116973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-esports","tag-mettlestate","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116973","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=116973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}