{"id":123811,"date":"2022-02-25T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T08:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123811"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T08:23:39","slug":"valorant-champions-tour-emea-week-3-games-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123811-valorant-champions-tour-emea-week-3-games-postponed","title":{"rendered":"Valorant Champions Tour EMEA Week 3 games postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an official tweet, Riot Games has announced the postponement of this week\u2019s Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) EMEA games.<\/p>\n<p>Since players in the European VCT circuit compete from their home countries, the postponement is to show support to all individuals affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the twelve teams competing in the league have players from Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>These teams include Fnatic, FunPlus Phoenix, Gambit Esports, Guild Esports, LDN UTD, and Natus Vincere.<\/p>\n<p>VCT EMEA also stated that they would update fans on the new schedule soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We will provide an update on the new schedule as soon as we can. In the meantime, please keep an eye on our social channels for further updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VALORANT Champions Tour EMEA (@valesports_emea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valesports_emea\/status\/1496904041191911428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123808-elden-ring-tops-600k-players-on-steam\">Elden Ring tops 600K players on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine has prompted Riot Games to postpone its Valorant Champions Tour EMEA Week 3 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":123812,"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":[2,9,3],"tags":[1611,25768,25766,633,7880,25767,25764,25765],"class_list":["post-123811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-pc","tag-esports","tag-invasion","tag-postponed","tag-riot-games","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-valorant","tag-valorant-champions-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123811","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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}