{"id":42093,"date":"2012-07-30T12:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T10:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42093"},"modified":"2012-07-31T02:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:44:15","slug":"2upgamers-8th-lap-event-happening-in-cape-town-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42093-2upgamers-8th-lap-event-happening-in-cape-town-this-week","title":{"rendered":"2upGamers 8th Lap event happening in Cape Town this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday is the first Friday of the month, and &#8211; <em>you know how it goes now, everybody sing along!<\/em> &#8211; that means it&#8217;s 2upGamers Friday! Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This month, it&#8217;s all happening at Ikamva in Parow again, presumably because the finger foods and parking proved quite popular with attendees last month.<\/p>\n<p>Big things on the night include the Nintendo 3DS XL launch, with Nintendo SA&#8217;s Mandy Meredith in the house to make it official, as well as speakers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamebuddies.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">GameBuddies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gecosports.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gecosports<\/a>, and the Blisters for Bread charity. For those of you who want to get into the game, there&#8217;s also a Forza 4 exhibition match hosted by Ozone and an eGamer FIFA 12 competition.<\/p>\n<p>Entry is R80, and you can sign yourself up right now over on <a href=\"http:\/\/2upgamers.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">2upGamers&#8217; website<\/a>. As usual, yours truly will be there so come over and say hi. Rumours of my biting people may have been somewhat exaggerated &#8211; it only happened, like, one. Maybe twice. And only because I didn&#8217;t like the colour of his t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2upgamers-8th-lap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42094\" title=\"2upgamers 8th lap\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2upgamers-8th-lap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2upgamers-8th-lap.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2upgamers-8th-lap-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2upgamers-8th-lap-250x228.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/2upgamers.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">2upGamers<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/40954-2upgamers-7th-gear-debriefing.html\">2upGamers 7th Gear debriefing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40609-sa-game-devs-support-blankets-for-cape-town-with-vlokkie.html\">SA game devs support Blankets for Cape Town with Vlokkie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/38966-debriefing-2upgamers-6th-gen-in-cape-town.html\">Debriefing: 2upGamers 6th Gen in Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36899-2upgamers-cape-town-gathering.html\">2upGamers Cape Town 5th round gathering<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":42118,"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":[1145,31,5445,2052,5793],"class_list":["post-42093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-2upgamers","tag-active","tag-community-event","tag-sa-gaming","tag-sa-gaming-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42117,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093\/revisions\/42117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}