{"id":119361,"date":"2017-07-27T10:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119361"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:59:58","slug":"this-is-how-much-pro-overwatch-players-will-earn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/119361-this-is-how-much-pro-overwatch-players-will-earn","title":{"rendered":"This is how much pro Overwatch players will earn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/overwatchleague.com\/en-us\/news\/20937016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>outlined the standards<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0used for signing professional players in the Overwatch League.<\/p>\n<p>The Overwatch League is an official Blizzard-backed eSports tournament which focuses on player and team stability.<\/p>\n<p>All players competing in the league will need to sign the Overwatch League Player Agreement, which entitles them to the following benefits from their respective teams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One-year guaranteed contract with the option to extend the contract for an additional year.<\/li>\n<li>A minimum salary of $50,000 (R644,000) per year.<\/li>\n<li>Health insurance and a retirement savings plan.<\/li>\n<li>Teams will distribute at least 50% of their team performance bonuses to their players directly.<\/li>\n<li>Teams will provide housing and practice facilities for players.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Overwatch League Season 1 will feature a $3.5-million prize pool, with the winning team receiving a minimum of $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>There is no region locking in terms of the place of birth or home country of players.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OFHpK627XkI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/166044-blizzards-overwatch-is-now-available-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blizzard\u2019s Overwatch is now available in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has\u00a0outlined the standards\u00a0used for signing professional players in the Overwatch League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":109255,"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":[15157,1611,10096],"class_list":["post-119361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-competitive","tag-esports","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119361","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=119361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119363,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119361\/revisions\/119363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}