{"id":33855,"date":"2012-03-09T01:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T23:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33855"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:10:02","slug":"polarfluke-march-of-the-marines-starcraft-ii-tournament-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33855-polarfluke-march-of-the-marines-starcraft-ii-tournament-announced","title":{"rendered":"Polarfluke: March of the Marines StarCraft II tournament announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SA competitive StarCraft II tournament organisers Polarfluke have confirmed the details of their March of the Marines tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The customary R7,000 cash prize pool will be up for grabs, making it SA\u2019s most lucrative monthly eSports event. The cash prize will be divided among the tournament\u2019s top finishing players.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a fast-track qualifying round which will take place on Wednesday 14 March, with play kicking off at 7PM.<\/p>\n<p>The event itself will take place over the weekend of 17-18 March, with play starting at 2PM on both days.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will be played online using the European Battle.net servers. That means that players participate from home, and that they require a European Battle.net account and an internet connection.<\/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>The cash prizes will be divided up as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes:<\/strong> R7, 000.00 (~$900)<\/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<div id=\"attachment_33856\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marchofthemarines470x470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33856\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33856\" title=\"Polarfluke: March of the Marines\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marchofthemarines470x470.jpg\" alt=\"Polarfluke: March of the Marines\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marchofthemarines470x470.jpg 470w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marchofthemarines470x470-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marchofthemarines470x470-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marchofthemarines470x470-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polarfluke: March of the Marines<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SA&#8217;s Activision-Blizzard distributor, Megarom, is sponsoring the tournament, and entry is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p>Polarfluke will be providing a live commentary and it will be possible to watch the games live via the <a href=\"http:\/\/polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=107&amp;Itemid=37 \" target=\"_blank\">Polarfluke live stream. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more details and tournament rules, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=299\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>To register, go<a href=\"http:\/\/polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=332\" target=\"_blank\"> here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarCraft II tournament confirmed for March, R7,000 up for grabs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":32875,"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":[289,21,1287,1289],"class_list":["post-33855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-competitive-gaming","tag-headline","tag-polarfluke","tag-starcraft-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855","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=33855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33857,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions\/33857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}