{"id":43571,"date":"2012-08-23T14:23:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43571"},"modified":"2012-08-23T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:24:12","slug":"pokemon-road-to-sa-national-championships-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43571-pokemon-road-to-sa-national-championships-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon: road to SA National Championships unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Core Group, official distributor of Pok\u00e9mon products in South Africa, has announced the Battle Roads Autumn Premier Tournament for the Pok\u00e9mon trading card game.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, South Africa will hold a premier event of this nature, whereby Pok\u00e9mon players will have the opportunity to earn Championship points. The event will take place as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>25th August &#8211; Look &amp; Listen Fourways, Johannesburg<\/li>\n<li>31st August &#8211;\u00a0 Garsfontein Recreational Centre, Pretoria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After Battle Roads, tournaments will be held in Leagues around the country called &#8220;Proving Grounds&#8221; and winners within specific age groups will win an invitation to play in the South African National Championships to be held at rAge 2012.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/36291-first-pokemon-league-in-south-africa.html\">First Pok\u00e9mon League in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/40770-new-super-mario-bros-wii-u-hands-on.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New Super Mario Bros Wii U hands-on<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wii U hands-on impressions\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/40512-wii-u-hands-on-impressions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U hands-on impressions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/39742-wii-u-accessories-we-hope-never-happen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U accessories we hope never happen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have the Pok\u00e9balls to become a champ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":43577,"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":[31,1907,777,6392,2052,5793],"class_list":["post-43571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-core-group","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-trading-card-game","tag-sa-gaming","tag-sa-gaming-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43571","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43579,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43571\/revisions\/43579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}