{"id":30388,"date":"2012-01-09T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30388"},"modified":"2012-01-09T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:04:43","slug":"sodium-overload-2012-local-fighting-game-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30388-sodium-overload-2012-local-fighting-game-tournament","title":{"rendered":"Sodium Overload 2012 \u2013 local fighting game tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

GetHype has announced that in conjunction with LAGza, it will be hosting Sodium Overload 2012 \u2013 a dedicated fighting game tournament.<\/p>\n

Sodium Overload will take place on Saturday, 28 January, and it will play host to both Tekken 6 and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournaments.<\/p>\n

Entrance to Sodium Overload will cost R30, and includes the entry fee for both games. Players can play in either tournament, or both.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day there will also be an exhibition match for the new King of Fighters XIII game. Participation will be open for all and is intended to gauge interest in the game for inclusion in future events.<\/p>\n

The day will kick off with registrations from 9:30AM. Registrations will close at 11AM.<\/p>\n

The first Marvel vs. Capcom matches will start at 11:30AM. The Marvel vs. Capcom tournament will continue up until the grand finals, at which point the Tekken 6 tournament will kick off. The grand finals for both take place at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

Both tournaments will be follow a double elimination format (best of 3 rounds). The grand finals will be best of 5.<\/p>\n

Tekken 6 prizes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

First place:<\/span> PS3 Madcatz SE Arcade stick sponsored by Comet Computing; R900 AWX gift voucher sponsored by AWX; custom arcade stick artwork of the winner\u2019s choice.
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Second place:<\/span> R600 AWX gift card sponsored by AWX.<\/p>\n

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 prizes
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First place:<\/span> PS3 Madcatz SE Arcade stick sponsored by Comet Computing; R900 AWX gift voucher sponsored by AWX; custom arcade stick artwork of the winner\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n

Second place:<\/span> PS3 Madcatz Street Fighter FightPad sponsored by Comet Computing and R300 AWX voucher sponsored by Lagza.co.za.<\/p>\n

Rules, registrations and location will be posted on www.gethype.co.za and on www.lagza.co.za sometime next week.<\/p>\n

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Tekken 6 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 players gather around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":30394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,1884,1474],"class_list":["post-30388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-sodium-overload","tag-tekken-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30403,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388\/revisions\/30403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}