{"id":118555,"date":"2017-06-22T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118555"},"modified":"2017-06-22T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T07:47:13","slug":"twitch-partners-with-blizzard-to-stream-official-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/118555-twitch-partners-with-blizzard-to-stream-official-tournaments","title":{"rendered":"Twitch partners with Blizzard to stream official tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitch.tv\/twitch-and-blizzard-join-forces-ab06244b3f2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it will be the exclusive streaming platform for multiple Blizzard tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will last until the end of 2018 and will see Twitch become the only third-party platform to host official live tournaments for Hearthstone, Overwatch, StarCraft II, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The tournaments will also be streamed on Blizzard\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>The tournaments in the streaming partnership are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heroes of the Storm Global Championship (HGC)<\/li>\n<li>StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS Circuit)<\/li>\n<li>Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT)<\/li>\n<li>Hearthstone Global Games (HGG)<\/li>\n<li>World of Warcraft Arena Championship<\/li>\n<li>Overwatch APEX League<\/li>\n<li>Overwatch Premier Series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/216540-twitch-announces-two-year-streaming-partnership-with-blizzard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/216530-sega-retro-game-collection-for-android-and-iphone-launched.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sega retro game collection for Android and iPhone launched<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch\u00a0announced\u00a0it will be the exclusive streaming platform for multiple Blizzard tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":106481,"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":[9],"tags":[665,7579],"class_list":["post-118555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-blizzard","tag-twitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118555","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=118555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}