{"id":120518,"date":"2017-09-08T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T08:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120518"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T08:37:26","slug":"blizzard-launches-esports-arena-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/120518-blizzard-launches-esports-arena-in-los-angeles","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard launches eSports arena in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has opened a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/blizzard\/21045530\/blizzard-arena-opens-in-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dedicated eSports arena<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Los Angeles, where it will host live competitive gaming events.<\/p>\n<p>The venue is designed for eSports live events, and includes facilities for professional gamers and a Blizzard store.<\/p>\n<p>The arena has multiple sounds stages, control rooms, and player lounges, allowing multiple broadcasts and events to be run simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard will host a grand opening event at the arena from 7-8 October, featuring the Overwatch Contenders Playoffs tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The company will also host the Hearthstone Summer Championship at the arena this year.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/224610-blizzard-brings-updates-and-a-public-test-server-to-warcraft-iii.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blizzard brings updates and a public test server to Warcraft III<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has opened a\u00a0dedicated eSports arena\u00a0in Los Angeles, where it will host live competitive gaming events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":31467,"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],"tags":[665,1611],"class_list":["post-120518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-blizzard","tag-esports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120518","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=120518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}