{"id":422,"date":"2017-03-10T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2017-10-23T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T04:06:16","slug":"esl-au-nz-championship-officially-adds-overwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/esl-au-nz-championship-officially-adds-overwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL AU &#038; NZ Championship officially adds Overwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/03\/overwatch_esl_au_nz_added.jpg.webp\" title=\"Overwatch added to ESL AU and NZ Championship 2017\" alt=\"Overwatch  ESL AU and NZ Championship 2017\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-424 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/03\/overwatch_esl_au_nz_added.jpg.webp 400w, https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/03\/overwatch_esl_au_nz_added-300x169.jpg.webp 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/225;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/overwatch_esl_au_nz_added.jpg\" title=\"Overwatch added to ESL AU and NZ Championship 2017\" alt=\"Overwatch  ESL AU and NZ Championship 2017\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/overwatch_esl_au_nz_added.jpg 400w, https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/overwatch_esl_au_nz_added-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>ESL Australia has officially announced <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/overwatch-league\/\">Overwatch<\/a> will be added to the 2017 ESL AU &#038; NZ Championship, joining the likes of Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Rocket League.<\/p>\n<p>Starting early March and finishing late April, the Championship features two open cups per month for four team to quality into a monthly final. The monthly finals have a $1,000 AUD prize pool up-for-grabs for the winners, as well as a qualifying spot for the $10,000 AUD offline finals in May.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the tournament is as follows:<\/p>\n<h3>March<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sunday, 12th March<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch Cup #1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, 18th March<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch Cup #2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sunday, 19th March<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch March Monthly Final ($1,000 AUD prize pool)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>April<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sunday, 2nd April<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch Cup #3<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sunday, 9th April<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch Cup #4<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sunday, 23rd April<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch April Monthly Final ($1,000 AUD prize pool)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>May<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TBA<\/strong> &#8211; Overwatch ESL AU &#038; NZ Championship Final ($10,000 AUD prize pool)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you and your friends are interested in participating in Overwatch professionally, you can register for Cup 1 and Cup 2 once more information is released by <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/electronic-sports-league\/\">ESL Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESL Australia has officially announced Overwatch will be added to the 2017 ESL AU &#038; NZ Championship, joining the likes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,30,22,4,56,31],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-au","tag-blizzard","tag-esl","tag-featured","tag-nz","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}