{"id":88445,"date":"2016-04-07T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T06:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88445"},"modified":"2016-04-07T18:28:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:28:06","slug":"overwatch-beta-gets-competitive-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88445-overwatch-beta-gets-competitive-play","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch beta gets Competitive Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/forums\/en\/overwatch\/topic\/20742886413\" target=\"_blank\">latest closed beta update<\/a> introduces a ranked game mode titled Competitive Play.<\/p>\n<p>Competitive Play is aimed at more serious Overwatch players seeking the challenge of ranked matches.<\/p>\n<p>The patch implements monthly seasons, which are made up of different divisions or tiers that players can use to measure their rankings in the current season.<\/p>\n<p>Players who wish to play ranked games will need to be at least level 25 before they can enter the game mode.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to other games that have competitive or ranked modes, Blizzard has implemented a penalty for leaving a competitive game.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike regular matches, Competitive Play will not feature any rewards at launch, focussing solely on ranked competition.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the breakdown of Overwatch&#8217;s Competitive Play below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L28555oaDI4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Ubisoft to permanently ban cheaters in The Division\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88443-ubisoft-to-permanently-ban-cheaters-in-the-division.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ubisoft to permanently ban cheaters in The Division<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Epic broadband for gamers: 400Mbps fibre for R599\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87892-epic-broadband-for-gamers-400mbps-fibre-for-r599.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Epic broadband for gamers: 400Mbps fibre for R599<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to DOOM Open Beta launches this month\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88427-doom-open-beta-launches-this-month.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">DOOM Open Beta launches this month<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch now has a ranked game mode along with competitive seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":76122,"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":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,2071,665,15157,17849,10096,17095,435],"class_list":["post-88445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-beta","tag-blizzard","tag-competitive","tag-game-mode","tag-overwatch","tag-ranked","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88445","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=88445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88523,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88445\/revisions\/88523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}