{"id":48404,"date":"2012-12-12T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48404"},"modified":"2012-12-12T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T08:27:54","slug":"sa-gaming-star-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48404-sa-gaming-star-honoured","title":{"rendered":"SA gaming star honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MSSA has awarded the 2012 Mind Sports Player of the Year award to a local professional player that has excelled throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Robert \u201cPandaTank\u201d Botha has been awarded the title, and fittingly so, as the hard-working Botha has had made waves in the local and international gaming scenes in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Botha represented South Africa as a member of the Gigabyte Protea eSports team, as well as competing in the Electronic Sports World Cup in France in November.<\/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>MyGaming wants to congratulate Rob well on his achievements throughout the year, and we hope to hear of some cross-country pwnage taking place.<\/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>PandaTank praised for gaming milestones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":46049,"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":[7591,7393,1611,7593,21,7236,3398,3104,7592],"class_list":["post-48404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-e-sports","tag-electronic-sports-world-cup","tag-esports","tag-eswc","tag-headline","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\/48404","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=48404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48408,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48404\/revisions\/48408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}