{"id":61514,"date":"2014-01-20T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61514"},"modified":"2014-01-20T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T11:09:05","slug":"sa-competitive-dota-2-growing-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61514-sa-competitive-dota-2-growing-fast","title":{"rendered":"SA competitive Dota 2 growing fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom Do Gaming League (DGL) has announced the latest numbers for its 2014 summer leg, showing that Dota 2 is growing ever more popular in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>So far, <strong>234 teams<\/strong> have registered to compete in the <strong>2014 Dota 2 DGL<\/strong>. This is up from 151 teams in the previous season.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m struggling to dig up numbers on professional Dota 2 leagues around the world, I think it&#8217;s safe to say that DGL must be among the largest out there.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, League of Legends is immensely popular around the globe (as is Dota 2) and there are 100 LoL teams entered to compete in DGL 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Registrations have been extended for the 2014 DGL, closing on 26 January with the summer leg kicking off on 3 February.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">New games being added to the 2014 DGL league<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Call of Duty: Ghosts (Xbox 360, PS3)<\/li>\n<li>FIFA 14 (all platforms)<\/li>\n<li>Forza Motorsport 4 (Xbox 360)<\/li>\n<li>Gran Turismo 6 (PS3)<\/li>\n<li>Street Fight X Tekken (PC, PS3, and Xbox 360)<\/li>\n<li>Mortal Kombat 9 (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Trackmania Nations (PC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">DGL 2014 Championship Titles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Battlefield 4 &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>Dota 2 &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty: Ghosts &#8211; PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>League of Legends &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>Gran Turismo 6 &#8211; PlayStation 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">DGL 2014 Tournament and League Titles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Call of Duty: Black Ops &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>FIFA 14 &#8211; PC, PS3, Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>Forza Motorsport 4 &#8211; Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>Hearthstone &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>Mortal Kombat 9 &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>Quake Live &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>StarCraft 2 &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<li>Street Fighter X Tekken &#8211; PC, PS3, Xbox 360<\/li>\n<li>Trackmania Nations &#8211; PC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Do Gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/gaming.do.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Do Gaming<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61478-sa-game-dev-stats-local-industry-gaining-strength.html\">SA game dev stats \u2013 local industry gaining strength<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61458-bt-games-collectors-editions-clearance-sale-launched.html\">BT Games Collector\u2019s Editions clearance sale launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61456-robert-pandatank-botha-pro-gaming-in-sa-isnt-sustainable.html\">PandaTank: pro gaming career in SA isn\u2019t sustainable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/61410-historical-console-market-growth-in-sa-revealed.html\">Historical console market growth in SA revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dota 2 is proving to be ever more popular among South African gamers &#8211; are you playing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":49689,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[787,21,2752,5793,287],"class_list":["post-61514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dgl","tag-headline","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61514","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=61514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}