{"id":85497,"date":"2016-01-21T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85497"},"modified":"2016-01-21T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:02:30","slug":"r1000000-cash-prizes-for-new-telkom-dgl-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/85497-r1000000-cash-prizes-for-new-telkom-dgl-masters","title":{"rendered":"R1,000,000 cash prizes for new Telkom DGL Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom announced on Thursday (21 January) that it would be putting up a million rand in prize money for its new Do Gaming League in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This is to support its plans to foster massive growth in the competitive online gaming arena, and formalise e-sports in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Contenders in Telkom\u2019s new Masters league will be in-line for a share of the winnings, with 8 clans set to compete in the 2016 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said it would build the brands of the teams playing in the Masters while they compete.<\/p>\n<p>It would also be supporting its launch of the Masters with network improvements throughout the year, new servers, and new software for the Do Gaming League.<\/p>\n<p>The new league software will enable more gamers to participate in the year-long league, Telkom said, as it aims to increase the league numbers from 6,000 gamers to 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will be playing DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with the prize money split evenly between the two games.<\/p>\n<p>All Masters players can expect to be paid for competing, with the cash prizes varying between R200,000 cash for first place winners, and R50,000 for the teams that come last.<\/p>\n<p>The 8 clans competing are in the 2016 Telkom Do Gaming League Masters are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aperture Gaming<\/li>\n<li>Bravado Gaming<\/li>\n<li>Carbon Esports<\/li>\n<li>Damage Control<\/li>\n<li>Infinity Gaming<\/li>\n<li>Veneration Esports<\/li>\n<li>White Rabbit E-sports<\/li>\n<li>Xperts@Total.Chaos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to launching the Masters competition for its Do Gaming League, Telkom also invited all \u201clike-minded partners\u201d to get involved with building e-sports in South Africa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85503\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-2016-teams-.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85503\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-2016-teams-.jpg\" alt=\"Telkom DGL Masters 2016 teams\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telkom DGL Masters 2016 team representatives<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_85501\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-launch-2016-Enzo-Scarcella.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85501\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85501\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-launch-2016-Enzo-Scarcella.jpg\" alt=\"Telkom DGL Masters launch 2016 - Enzo Scarcella\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telkom DGL Masters launch 2016 &#8211; Enzo Scarcella<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is promising massive investment in South African e-sports in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":85499,"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":[287,17013,17011],"class_list":["post-85497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-dgl-masters","tag-telkom-digital-gaming-league-dgl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85497","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\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}