{"id":67039,"date":"2014-07-17T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T07:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67039"},"modified":"2014-07-17T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T07:07:02","slug":"sign-up-for-dota-2-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/67039-sign-up-for-dota-2-world-cup-qualifier","title":{"rendered":"Sign up for Dota 2 World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Dota 2 gamers can sign up for a chance to play in the\u00a0MSI Beat IT 2014 tournament in Taipei, Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Registrations are now open for the sub-Saharan qualifiers, hosted by MWEB GameZone. Those interested can register via the relevant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mweb.co.za\/beatit2014\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MWEB page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Beat IT 2014 competition will be preceded by qualifiers in North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>There are two legs to the Africa qualifiers \u2013 North Africa (Egypt) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SA), and MWEB will be running the sub-Saharan Qualifiers and the Africa finals.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB said they have\u00a0invited eight of the top Dota 2 teams in South Africa and Namibia &#8211; both countries have formalised Dota 2 leagues &#8211; but there is space for a\u00a032-team group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The top 8 teams from the group stage will go then up against the eight invited teams.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the top four teams will take part in the Africa final.<\/p>\n<p>MSI, one of the sponsors, will provide the winning African team with accommodation for the final in\u00a0Taiwan, $5000 (\u00b1R53,000) towards travel expenses, and five MSI gaming laptops.<\/p>\n<p>You think your Dota 2 team has what it takes?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/66631-video-game-endings-that-let-us-down.html\">Video game endings that let us down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/66909-thief-heading-to-the-silver-screen.html\">Thief heading to the silver screen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/66939-tekken-7-is-coming-to-kick-your-ass.html\">Tekken 7 is coming to kick your ass<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Dota 2 gamers can sign up for a chance to play in the MSI Beat IT 2014 tournament in Taipei, Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":55372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2218,5203,217],"class_list":["post-67039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-dota-2","tag-msi","tag-mweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67039","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}