{"id":87916,"date":"2016-04-04T18:14:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=87916"},"modified":"2016-04-04T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:15:22","slug":"supersport-competitive-gaming-coverage-on-dstv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/87916-supersport-competitive-gaming-coverage-on-dstv","title":{"rendered":"Supersport competitive gaming coverage on DStv"},"content":{"rendered":"

In March eSports debuted on Supersport<\/a><\/strong> with the coverage of the IEM World Championship in Poland on the DStv platform.<\/p>\n

Supersport said that eSports is the next frontier in international sport, and that it plans to be there every step of the way.<\/p>\n

While eSports, which is basically competitive video gaming, is still small in South Africa, it is showing strong growth.<\/p>\n

With an established professional league, the country is catching up with global developments, where tournaments with large prize pools are commonplace.<\/p>\n

Supersport\u2019s coverage of eSports on DStv<\/h3>\n

Supersport\u2019s communications manager, Clinton van der Berg said that the response to their eSports coverage was very encouraging, particularly from the gaming community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a small minority of viewers who complained, claiming that it isn\u2019t \u201ctraditional sport\u201d, but the response was overwhelmingly in favour,\u201d said van der Berg.<\/p>\n

He said that Supersport is currently busy with investigating the broadcasting of eSports and competitive video gaming in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is on the schedule for now, but this may change, depending on the outcome of our research,\u201d said van der Berg.<\/p>\n

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eSports recently debuted on Supersport, and the response was very encouraging. Here is what will happen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":87924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17708,1611,17450,17448],"class_list":["post-87916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-clinton-van-der-berg","tag-esports","tag-iem-world-championship","tag-supersport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87916","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88267,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87916\/revisions\/88267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}