{"id":87250,"date":"2016-03-19T22:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=87250"},"modified":"2016-03-19T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T21:12:26","slug":"telkom-dgl-masters-series-heats-up-day-2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/87250-telkom-dgl-masters-series-heats-up-day-2-results","title":{"rendered":"Telkom DGL Masters Series heats up &#8211; Day 2 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telkom DGL Masters Series kicked off on 18 March at rAge Cape Town, featuring 8 of the best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams in South Africa competing for a prize pool of R100,000.<\/p>\n<p>5 matches were played in the first two days of the knockout tournament, with the winner of each match proceeding to the next stage. Matches are played in a best-of-3 format.<\/p>\n<p>The 8 teams that entered the tournament 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>Flipsid3<\/li>\n<li>Veneration E-Sports<\/li>\n<li>White Rabbit Gaming<\/li>\n<li>Xperts@Total.Chaos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the tournament standings and the results of the first 2 days:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-knockouts.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87258\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87258\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-knockouts.jpg\" alt=\"Telkom DGL Masters knockouts\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-knockouts.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Telkom-DGL-Masters-knockouts-230x130.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first day of the tournament saw strong performances from Bravado Gaming and carboN eSports as both teams scored decisive victories. Veneration E-Sports and Flipsid3 Tactics proved unable to overcome the building momentum of their opponents and were eliminated from the series at the end of the first day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5161.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87262\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5161-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5161\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5161-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5161-230x130.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The second day presented some exciting matches which were tighter than those on day 1, with one game resulting in overtime. Aperture Gaming beat Xperts@Total.Chaos relatively comfortably, securing their place in the semi-finals with a 2-0 result.<\/p>\n<p>White Rabbit Gaming were eliminated after playing against Damage Control and losing a decisive game by the narrowest of margins, while Bravado claimed a 2-0 victory over carboN eSports after the second game went into overtime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5322.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87264\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5322-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5322\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5322-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5322-230x130.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DGL Masters Series delivers some high-quality competitive Counter-Strike, with all 8 teams performing at an exceptional level of play.<\/p>\n<p>The third day of the tournament will feature the semi-final match between Aperture Gaming and Damage Control, with the winner playing against Bravado Gaming, who have already secured their spot in the final.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jamie McKane is a guest of Telkom at rAGe 2016 Cape Town.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Retail gaming specials this weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87174-retail-gaming-specials-this-weekend-39.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Retail gaming specials this weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 30 games will be available for the Oculus Rift launch\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/87238-30-games-will-be-available-for-the-oculus-rift-launch.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">30 games will be available for the Oculus Rift launch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to New Dark Souls 3 footage revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/87232-new-dark-souls-3-footage-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Dark Souls 3 footage revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telkom DGL Masters Series heats up as teams compete for a share of the R100,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":87256,"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":[1147,787,17468,1611,17498,1699,2163,287],"class_list":["post-87250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cape-town","tag-dgl","tag-digital-gaming-league","tag-esports","tag-masters","tag-rage","tag-south-africa","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87250","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\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}