{"id":45003,"date":"2012-09-25T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T08:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45003"},"modified":"2012-09-25T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T08:08:24","slug":"borderlands-2-level-cap-reached-in-43-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45003-borderlands-2-level-cap-reached-in-43-hours","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 2 level-cap reached in 43 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>While retailers still anticipate the arrival of <a title=\"Borderlands 2, F1 2012 SA retail launch moved forward\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44966-borderlands-2-f1-2012-sa-retail-launch-moved-forward.html\" target=\"_blank\">Borderlands 2 this week<\/a>, a gamer has already reached the level cap in Gearbox\u2019s colossal sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Siegfried, who describes himself as a &#8220;multi-genre\/multi-console world champion, speedrunner, high score chaser, tournament player, co-op lover, and OSU student\u201d, is the man who\u2019s maxed-out his Borderlands 2 level-cap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 43 hours and 15 minutes, me and my partner finally hit [level] 50 in Borderlands 2,&#8221; reads the description for a <a title=\"The Final Minutes of Hitting 50 in Borderlands 2 \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9h7F1bLj9To&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube video<\/a> showing final minutes leading up to the milestone. &#8220;We began playing 30 minutes after the midnight release Monday night and reached level 50 at 7:45 pm Wednesday. There were no major breaks during this process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, who\u2019s going to try rival Siegfried\u2019s time when Borderlands 2 releases?<\/p>\n<p>Also check out Siegfried\u2019s moment of glory below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9h7F1bLj9To\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Borderlands 2, F1 2012 SA retail launch moved forward\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44966-borderlands-2-f1-2012-sa-retail-launch-moved-forward.html\" target=\"_blank\">Borderlands 2, F1 2012 SA retail launch moved forward<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44959-borderlands-2-has-the-greatest-silliest-most-wtf-gun-ever.html\">Borderlands 2 has the greatest, silliest, most WTF gun ever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44892-borderlands-2-has-a-minecraft-easter-egg.html\">Borderlands 2 has a Minecraft easter egg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/44854-borderlands-2-sa-pre-order-price-round-up.html\">Borderlands 2 SA pre-order price round-up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passionate gamer sets the bar for Borderlands 2 dedication <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":45004,"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":[31,1524,6896,1525,6895,6897,2219],"class_list":["post-45003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-borderlands-2","tag-borderlands-2-level-cap","tag-gearbox","tag-level-cap","tag-matt-siegfried","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45003","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=45003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45006,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45003\/revisions\/45006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}