{"id":90455,"date":"2016-05-06T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T10:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90455"},"modified":"2016-05-06T17:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:43:58","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-telkom-digital-gaming-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90455-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-telkom-digital-gaming-league","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about the Telkom Digital Gaming League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telkom DGL is South Africa&#8217;s biggest and most prestigious eSports gaming league. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalgamingleague.co.za\/leagues\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>registration<\/strong><\/a> currently underway, we took a look at this year&#8217;s tournament structure.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to note is that the tournament has been restructured so as to incorporate The Masters, the old division-based system and an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elo_rating_system\" target=\"_blank\">ELO-based<\/a><\/strong> ladder system that allows for unlimited entries.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The games being played<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dota 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>League of Legends<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Battlefield 4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hearthstone<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rocket League<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (PC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (PS4)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Masters<\/h3>\n<p>The Masters, announced in January, is the first eSports tournament of its kind in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The competition features eight of South Africa\u2019s top MGOs with both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/telkomgaming.co.za\/category\/esports\/counter-strike-dgl\/\">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/telkomgaming.co.za\/category\/esports\/dota2-league\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2<\/a> <\/strong>teams, who will compete for a total prize pool of R1 million in October\u2019s main event.<\/p>\n<p>This is primarily a showcase event (for streaming) and to show off the best the country has to offer.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The DGL (Divisions)<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Masters Division (Exclusive to participating Masters teams in CS:GO and Dota 2)<\/li>\n<li>Premier Division<\/li>\n<li>First Division<\/li>\n<li>Ladder<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The teams which competed in the 2015 DGL are automatically seeded in the Premier and First Division of this years DGL. These seeded teams will still be able to compete on the ladder but any newcomers will have to work their way up through the new ladder system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Ladder<\/h3>\n<p>Any number of teams or individuals can enter the Telkom DGL through the ladder-system. At the beginning of the season, teams will begin with 1000 base Elo points.<\/p>\n<p>Based on their wins\/losses this number will either increase or decrease, showing how they compare on this 1000-point scale. Each team will be eligible to challenge other teams within a 200 Elo point difference during the season.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of each leg and based on the players&#8217; performances, a set number of teams will be promoted to a higher division.<\/p>\n<p>A complete FAQ on the Telkom DGL can be found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/telkomgaming.co.za\/dgl-ladder-system-qa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cell C LTE-Advanced launched\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/90471-cell-c-lte-advanced-launched.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cell C LTE-Advanced launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to stream and record Xbox One games to your PC without a capture card\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89871-how-to-stream-and-record-xbox-one-games-to-your-pc-without-a-capture-card.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to stream and record Xbox One games to your PC without a capture card<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Games you can play this week \u2013 snipers and swords\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90401-games-you-can-play-this-week-snipers-and-swords.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you can play this week \u2013 snipers and swords<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the breakdown on everything you need to know about the Telkom DGL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":87004,"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":[20],"tags":[18263,1611,287],"class_list":["post-90455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-dgl-do-gaming","tag-esports","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90455","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91663,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90455\/revisions\/91663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}