{"id":6550,"date":"2009-01-13T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-13T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T11:04:00","slug":"2009-gaming-league-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/6550-2009-gaming-league-kicks-off.html","title":{"rendered":"2009 gaming league kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s 2009 online gaming league is readying for a February launch. <\/p>\n<p>The Mind Sports South Africa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mssa-cgboc.org\/\">2009 online league<\/a> is now taking registrations and will launch with the first leg on February 16. <\/p>\n<p>The league is made up of two legs. Leg one has the status of a provincial championship and leg two a national championship. <\/p>\n<p>Leg one will run over five weeks from February 16. Leg two will run over five weeks from April 6 and will only include players from leg one. <\/p>\n<p>Games that will be played in the online league are Counter Strike 1.6, DotA- Allstars, Team Fortress 2, Quake 3, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty: World at War, Starcraft, TrackMania Nations Forever, Red Alert 3, Gears of War 2 (XBOX360) and Guitar Hero (XBOX 360). <\/p>\n<p>Players will be eligible for provincial colours if they end in the top 50% of both leg one and leg two or win all their games in leg one.<\/p>\n<p>Players that win all their games in leg two will automatically earn National Federation Colours.<\/p>\n<p>Players that finish in the top 20% will automatically qualify for national team trials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=153650\"><strong>2009 Gaming League discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players can earn provincial and national colours and qualify for national team trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}