{"id":80643,"date":"2015-08-28T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T09:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80643"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T09:46:28","slug":"sa-dota-2-tournament-gets-r26000-prize-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/80643-sa-dota-2-tournament-gets-r26000-prize-pool","title":{"rendered":"SA Dota 2 tournament gets R26,000 prize pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gigabyte has revealed it will put up\u00a0a R26,000 prize pool for\u00a0the\u00a0upcoming\u00a0Gigabyte Dota 2 Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Gigabyte will work with local casting agency NavTV, who will stream all the games, while the\u00a0tournament is set to\u00a0run from 21 &#8211; 28 September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will consist of 16 teams. Eight teams will be invited, while the other eight spots go to the first teams to register. Registrations are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/navtv.co.za\/gigabyte-dota-2-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">open here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The top three teams will split the prize money as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1st<\/strong> \u2013 $1,000 (R13,000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2nd<\/strong> \u2013 $600 (R7,200)<\/li>\n<li><strong>3rd<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 $400 (R5,200)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Games will be available on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dota2lounge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2 Lounge<\/a><\/strong> for item betting.\u00a0There will also be daily giveaways on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/navgamingtv\" target=\"_blank\">NavTV stream<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Dota 2 news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Dota 2\u2019s The International is powered by NVIDIA\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/79519-dota-2s-the-international-is-powered-by-nvidia.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dota 2\u2019s The International is powered by NVIDIA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Win the 2015 Dota 2 The International and earn more than a Wimbledon Champion\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/77970-win-the-2015-dota-2-the-international-and-earn-more-than-a-wimbledon-champion.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Win the 2015 Dota 2 The International and earn more than a Wimbledon Champion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigabyte has announced that it will sponsor a South African Dota 2 tournament, with R26,000 in prizes up for grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":75192,"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":[2218,1795],"class_list":["post-80643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dota-2","tag-gigabyte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80645,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643\/revisions\/80645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}