{"id":86542,"date":"2016-02-25T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86542"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:47:18","slug":"valve-announces-1000000-prize-pool-for-csgo-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86542-valve-announces-1000000-prize-pool-for-csgo-majors","title":{"rendered":"Valve announces $1,000,000 prize pool for CS:GO Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has announced that they are raising the prize pool for each <em>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive <\/em>(<em>CS:GO<\/em>) Major Championship to $1,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>This is in large part a result of the incredible growth of<em> CS:GO<\/em> as a spectator sport.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The professional <em>CS:GO<\/em> community has been growing at an incredible rate. <em>CS:GO<\/em> tournaments are now among the largest esports events in the world, drawing global audiences of millions of viewers, filling massive venues, and garnering higher prize pools.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Valve is undoubtedly taking a page from their experience with <em>Dota 2\u2019s <\/em>The International as well as the Majors, in fact the Shangha Major is taking place as we speak.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great news for the players and spectators of <em>CS:GO<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.counter-strike.net\/index.php\/2016\/02\/13658\/\" target=\"_blank\">Counter-Strike Blog<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/86512-gears-of-war-ultimate-edition-requires-both-windows-10-as-well-as-directx-12.html\">Gears of War: Ultimate Edition requires both Windows 10 as well as DirectX 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/86478-xcom-2-pc.html\">Review: XCOM 2 (PC)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86466-new-monstrously-powerful-msi-gt80s-laptops-arrives-on-south-african-shores.html\">New monstrously powerful MSI GT80S laptops arrive on South African shores<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of sheer popularity, Valve has announced that they are raising the prize pool for each CS:GO Major Championship to $1,000,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":86544,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[695,6385,17344,1969,15397,697],"class_list":["post-86542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-counter-strike-global-offensive","tag-csgo","tag-major-championship","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86542","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}