{"id":122949,"date":"2018-01-13T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122949"},"modified":"2018-01-15T00:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T22:49:10","slug":"overwatch-league-draws-big-viewership-for-first-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122949-overwatch-league-draws-big-viewership-for-first-matches","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch League draws big viewership for first matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Overwatch League held its first matches this week, which drew a large viewership online.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/01\/12\/overwatch-leagues-debut-stream-ruled-twitch-last-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, six teams competed in the debut matches at the\u00a0Blizzard Los Angeles eSports arena \u2013 with 360,000 viewers watching the action on Twitch.<\/p>\n<p>12 teams from the Overwatch League played over three days during the tournament, which is said to have received huge financial backing.<\/p>\n<p>Players in the league are professional gamers and all receive a\u00a0minimum salary of\u00a0$50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Overwatch League held its first matches this week, which drew a large viewership online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":115963,"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":[665,10096],"class_list":["post-122949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-blizzard","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122949","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=122949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}