{"id":8079,"date":"2010-10-18T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dogaming-announces-r160-000-cash-for-lan-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/8079-dogaming-announces-r160-000-cash-for-lan-champs","title":{"rendered":"DoGaming announces R160,000 cash for LAN Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SA&rsquo;s competitive gaming community was <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/6944-Telkom-DoGaming-League-Finals-not-rAge-this-year.html\" target=\"_self\">up in arms<\/a> a few months ago when DoGaming announced that they had not managed to secure their regular block booking at rAge&rsquo;s NAG LAN for their championship finals.<\/p>\n<p>As promised though, DoGaming will be channelling additional resources into prize money to make up for the faux pas. This year, a whopping R160 000 will be awarded to competing gamers.<\/p>\n<p>DoGaming has partnered with Organised Chaos, and will be holding events at the OC LAN&rsquo;s in Johannesburg as well as Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>A &ldquo;preliminary CoD 4 championship&rdquo; will be held at Cape Town&rsquo;s OC LAN at the Velodrome. Players will not have to pay to enter the competition, but they will have to pay R120 for their LAN ticket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cape Town event (CoD 4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First place: R15 000<\/li>\n<li>Second place: R7 500<\/li>\n<li>Third place: R2 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event will take place from December 3 to December 5, 2010.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The winning team will also get a travel subsidiary of R7 500 as well as free tickets for the Johannesburg event. In total, the winning team will get R23 500 in cash.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johannesburg Grand Finals <\/strong>(10-12 December 2010)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call of Duty 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First place: R25 000<\/li>\n<li>Second place: R7 500<\/li>\n<li>Third place: R5 000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are 32 available team slots for this event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterstrike: Source&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First place: R15 000<\/li>\n<li>Second place: R7 500<\/li>\n<li>Third place: R2 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are 16 available team slots for this event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Online Championships&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Additional competitive games will be played, but will not feature at the LANs. These games are currently being discussed, and nominations include Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Heroes of Newerth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over R40 000 in prize money has already been allocated for the online championships.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get in on the action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teams that are already registered for Telkom&rsquo;s Dogaming&rsquo;s online leagues will get preference when booking spots at the LAN championships, but that does not mean that new teams can&rsquo;t enter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to enter, you must register at the following links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogamingleague.co.za\/stage.php?id=194\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Town CoD 4 Preliminary LAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogamingleague.co.za\/stage.php?id=192\" target=\"_blank\">Johannesburg LAN Finals (CoD 4)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogamingleague.co.za\/stage.php?id=193\" target=\"_blank\">Johannesburg LAN Finals (CS:S)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Entries open today.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8689-R160-000-DoGaming-LAN-competition-open-for-registration\" target=\"_self\" title=\"DoGaming R160 000 LAN competition\">DoGaming R160 000 LAN competition<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive cash prizes to be given away in this year\u2019s DoGaming LAN championships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}