{"id":46973,"date":"2012-11-06T12:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46973"},"modified":"2012-11-06T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:35:59","slug":"pandatank-chimes-in-on-eswc-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46973-pandatank-chimes-in-on-eswc-performance","title":{"rendered":"PandaTank chimes in on ESWC performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Over the last week, South African professional gamer Rob \u201cPandaTank\u201d Botha has been competing in the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) in Porte de Versailles, Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Botha managed to impress with his mouse-clicking skills at the prestigious event, and broke into the StarCraft II top 16 before advancing even further.<\/p>\n<p>Botha shocked two strong competitors before facing-off against last year\u2019s winner Ilyes \u2018Stephano\u2019 Satouri, whom he unfortunately fell to in a 2-1 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Rob for making the quarter-finals and showing the pedigree of South African e-sports.<\/p>\n<p>PandaTank will now make his way to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46048-sa-gamer-head-hunted-for-razer-academy.html\" target=\"_blank\">prestigious Razer gaming academy<\/a> in Los Angeles, California, in order to hone his skills and progress his gaming career further.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the interview below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/18TBTL_te9M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46420-sa-pro-gamer-heads-to-e-sports-world-cup.html\">SA pro gamer heads to e-sports World Cup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45899-starcraft-ii-pro-gamer-suspended-over-lewd-joke.html\">StarCraft II pro gamer suspended over lewd \u201cjoke\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46048-sa-gamer-head-hunted-for-razer-academy.html\">SA pro gamer head-hunted for Razer Academy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45804-sa-e-sport-protea-colours-awards-ceremony.html\">SA e-Sport Protea Colours awards ceremony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA pro gamer makes a strong showing at the Electronic Sports World Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":46422,"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":[31,7591,7393,1611,7593,7236,3398,3104,7592],"class_list":["post-46973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-e-sports","tag-electronic-sports-world-cup","tag-esports","tag-eswc","tag-pandatank","tag-rob-pandatank-botha","tag-rob-botha","tag-sa-pro-gamer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46973","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=46973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46976,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46973\/revisions\/46976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}