{"id":48066,"date":"2012-12-03T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48066"},"modified":"2012-12-03T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T10:06:30","slug":"sa-e-sports-dream-team-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48066-sa-e-sports-dream-team-emerges","title":{"rendered":"SA e-sports dream team emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of South Africa\u2019s best gamers have joined forces to take on the competitive gaming world.<\/p>\n<p>Energy eSports is a new local multi-gaming organisation (MGO), comprising three veterans of the SA competitive gaming scene.<\/p>\n<p>Matt \u2018fluKe\u2019 Merks (owner of PolarfluKe), Rob \u2018GrIdL0cK\u2019 Clegg (ex-Pantheon Gaming founder) and Kas \u2018CAWA\u2019 Ahmad (Monster Energy gaming team founder and leader) will lead Energy eSports, adding some gaming pedigree to the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Energy eSports will compete in Black Ops 2, DoTA 2 and Counter Strike: GO events leagues and events, and have recruited some of the best talent around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Do Gaming Championship winners and third place teams will be joining the ranks of Energy eSports along with the winners of the DGL Ready.Set.GO! Cup, c7e,\u201d said Energy eSports. \u201cTo cover the DotA 2 competitions, we have also enlisted the services of LEGS who have placed in the top three for numerous competitions including the DGL SteelSeries Spring League and the PolarfluKe SECS season one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SteelSeries and Monster Energy are already onboard as sponsors for Energy eSports, and will provide Energy with what\u2019s needed to reach the top.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the highlights from the Do Gaming Championships at rAge 2012, where mG Energy and mG Khaos places first and third.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9Jms18Wmqg\" 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\/47419-mssa-national-lan-championship-registrations-open.html\">MSSA national LAN Championship registrations open<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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\/46583-starcraft-ii-is-dying-no-way-says-blizzard.html\">StarCraft II is dying? No way, says Blizzard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47011-choose-the-games-played-at-iesf-2013.html\">Choose the games played at IeSF 2013<\/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>Energy eSports enter the frame to mix things up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":48067,"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":[1904,289,6384,2218,7978,1611,3864,21,1287,5794],"class_list":["post-48066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-black-ops-2","tag-competitive-gaming","tag-counter-strike-go","tag-dota-2","tag-energy-esports","tag-esports","tag-gaming-news","tag-headline","tag-polarfluke","tag-sa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48066","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=48066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}