{"id":36360,"date":"2012-04-20T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36360"},"modified":"2012-04-20T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:38:38","slug":"dgl-starcraft-ii-champions-cup-2012-produces-leg-1-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36360-dgl-starcraft-ii-champions-cup-2012-produces-leg-1-winner","title":{"rendered":"DGL StarCraft II Champions Cup 2012 produces leg 1 winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob &#8216;PandaTank&#8217; Botha has taken the Leg 1 Champions Cup of the StarCraft 2 <a title=\"DGL\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23907-DoGaming-League\">DGL<\/a> 2012 league after beating close rival Travis &#8216;Shase&#8217; Wheedon.<\/p>\n<p>The two have encountered one another often, but Botha was able to come out on top this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Botha played with Protoss, while Weedon took Terran, with Botha winning 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In reference to the first of the two games, Botha said: &#8220;Weedon took some unfavourable engagements which allowed me to get pretty far ahead in army value and after that, the game was over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a similar trend in the second game as Botha said &#8220;[holding off attacks] put me into an\u00a0an enormous lead in the game and I was able to continue upgrading constantly off two forges, expanding and massing gateway units. The next big engagement was the last\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Cup Champion mentioned that the games felt relatively easy.\u00a0\u201cIn terms of the local level of play in StarCraft 2, I feel not much has changed at all since last year, which is kind of sad. I do feel that I have personally improved a lot since last year though,\u201d Botha said.<\/p>\n<p>The third place playoff also took place last night and saw Kyle \u2018HellsHound\u2019 Haward from Vitriolic Gaming take the third spot above Francois \u2018BlooD-Clot\u2019 Malan from Konsentrasie Knights. That match ended 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Leg 2 kicks-off on April 24th.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gaming.do.co.za\/articles\/competitive\/pandatank_takes_champions_cup.htm\">DoGaming<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35884-starcraft-ii-dgl-champions-cup-quarter-finals-kick-off.html\">StarCraft II GDL Championship Champions Cup quarter finals kick-off<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strongest player of DGL StarCraft II 2012 league leg 1 has emerged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":35908,"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":[665,3657,3658,21,2219,3398,3656,3655,3659,3660],"class_list":["post-36360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-blizzard","tag-champions-cup","tag-dgl-starcraft-ii","tag-headline","tag-megarom","tag-rob-pandatank-botha","tag-stacraft-ii-league","tag-starcraft-2-league","tag-starcraft-local-competition","tag-travis-shase-wheedon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36431,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions\/36431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}