{"id":30872,"date":"2012-01-17T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30872"},"modified":"2012-01-17T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T10:49:00","slug":"polarfluke-january-starcraft-ii-tournament-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30872-polarfluke-january-starcraft-ii-tournament-announced","title":{"rendered":"PolarfluKe: January StarCraft II tournament announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s premier monthly StarCraft II event organisers have announced the first PolarfluKe event of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, there will be a hefty cash prize pool up for grabs. A total of $866 (R7,000) will be split among the top finishing players, making it South Africa\u2019s most lucrative monthly e-Sports event.<\/p>\n<p>A fastrack qualifying round will take place at 7PM on Wednesday, January 25. The tournament will kick off officially on Saturday, 28 January, when Swiss rounds will begin at 2PM.<\/p>\n<p>Players who qualify to go forward will participate in the single elimination rounds which will kick off on Sunday, 29 January at 2PM.<\/p>\n<p>In order to enter, players will be required to own a legal copy of StarCraft II and have an active StarCraft II account on the European Battle.net servers.<\/p>\n<p>Players must also be over 18 years old or have a written consent letter signed by a legal guardian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The prize cash will be allocated as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prize pool: R7,000.00<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: R2,400.00<\/li>\n<li>2nd: R1,600.00<\/li>\n<li>3rd: R1,000.00<\/li>\n<li>4th: R600.00<\/li>\n<li>5th-8th: R350.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event is being sponsored by Activision Blizzard distributor Megarom.<\/p>\n<p>Players can view the rules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=299\" target=\"_blank\">here,<\/a> and register for free <a href=\"www.polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=310\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will be possible to watch the matches live online <a href=\"polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=107&amp;Itemid=37\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30874\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Polarfluke-January-2012.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30874\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30874\" title=\"Polarfluke January 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Polarfluke-January-2012.jpeg\" alt=\"Polarfluke January 2012\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Polarfluke-January-2012.jpeg 470w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Polarfluke-January-2012-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Polarfluke-January-2012-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Polarfluke-January-2012-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polarfluke January 2012<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA\u2019s biggest monthly StarCraft II event continues in January 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":29023,"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":[2,3],"tags":[21,1287,1289],"class_list":["post-30872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-polarfluke","tag-starcraft-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30872","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=30872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30898,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30872\/revisions\/30898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}