{"id":117377,"date":"2017-05-06T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117377"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:17:00","slug":"local-competitive-dota-2-and-csgo-coming-to-supersport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/117377-local-competitive-dota-2-and-csgo-coming-to-supersport","title":{"rendered":"Local competitive Dota 2 and CS:GO coming to SuperSport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telkom Digital Gaming League has rebranded and partnered with SuperSport to air its upcoming Dota 2 and CS:GO tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The company is now a standalone entity owned by Telkom and has changed its name to VS Gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom\u2019s Cambridge Mokanyane\u00a0is the CEO of VS Gaming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelkom pioneered eSports in South Africa, but with its tremendous growth, we realised that it needed to be a standalone entity to give it the focus it deserves,\u201d said Mokanyane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim of VS Gaming is to grow the eSports market while working with other organisations to make it professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Established tournaments such as the Masters League will continue throughout the 2017 season and rules and policies will remain the same.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also partnered with SuperSport to broadcast its upcoming VS Gaming Dota 2 and CS: GO tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The largest FIFA 17 tournament in Africa \u2013 from 22-23 July in Johannesburg \u2013 will also be held by\u00a0VS Gaming.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/209496-local-competitive-gaming-coming-to-supersport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/202508-supersport-esports-channel-gets-launch-date.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">SuperSport eSports channel gets launch date<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telkom Digital Gaming League has rebranded and partnered with SuperSport to air its upcoming Dota 2 and CS:GO tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":117379,"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":[2],"tags":[1611,17448,24363],"class_list":["post-117377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-esports","tag-supersport","tag-vs-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117377","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=117377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}