{"id":88759,"date":"2016-04-10T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T10:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88759"},"modified":"2016-04-10T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T10:35:15","slug":"video-game-olympics-to-be-held-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/88759-video-game-olympics-to-be-held-in-rio","title":{"rendered":"Video game Olympics to be held in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK government is supporting an eGames<\/a> international gaming tournament, which will run alongside the Olympic Games in Rio.<\/p>\n

The eGames tournament was announced as part of the London Games Festival, and will feature national teams playing video games for their country.<\/p>\n

Each country playing in the tournament will feature an ‘eTeam’ of professional gamers from their respective country.<\/p>\n

The eGames tournament will continously feature alongside the Olympic Games and will be held again in Pyeongchang in 2018, and Tokyo in 2020.<\/p>\n

Although the introduction of an official international tournament allows gamers to represent their country and compete for medals, the gaming community has been skeptical <\/a>of the eGames competition due to the lack of incentive.<\/p>\n

The tournament will not offer any cash prizes, unlike the various major gaming tournaments such as Dota 2’s International – which boasts the largest prize pool of any gaming competition.<\/p>\n

According to the eGames website<\/a>, Rio’s tournament could feature PC, console and possibly mobile games.<\/p>\n

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The eGames international gaming competition will be hosted alongside the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":88761,"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":[31,1405,17905,1611,2664,5998,6938],"class_list":["post-88759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-competition","tag-egames","tag-esports","tag-gaming","tag-olympics","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88759","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=88759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}