{"id":8157,"date":"2010-10-22T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"blizzard-planning-grand-master-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/8157-blizzard-planning-grand-master-league","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard planning \u201cGrand Master\u201d league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Blizzard has five StarCraft II leagues, from bottom to top; Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond. This is about to change, according to an interview which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playxp.com\/sc2\/news\/view.php?article_id=2218155\" target=\"_blank\">PlayXP<\/a>&nbsp;recently conducted with StarCraft II lead balance designer David &ldquo;dayvie&rdquo; Kim.<\/p>\n<p>A new Grandmaster league is being created to accommodate the top 2% of the world&rsquo;s best StarCraft II players. The Grand Master League is essentially the much discussed &ldquo;Pro League.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>MyGaming has a number of highly ranked Diamond league players in out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc2ranks.com\/c\/382\/mygamingza\" target=\"_blank\">StarCraft 2 community<\/a>, with Bakchiadai being the best of the lot. Bakchiadai is ranked 5th in division Heirarch Echo, and is ranked 1,879 on the European servers.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8789-Blizzard-to-introduce-new-quot-Grand-Master-quot-league-above-Diamond\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Grand Master StarCraft II ranking\">Grand Master StarCraft II ranking<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New league above diamond to cater for the best of the best<\/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-8157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157","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=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}