{"id":103,"date":"2016-01-22T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T10:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T10:35:39","slug":"wargaming-net-league-2016-grand-finals-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/01\/22\/wargaming-net-league-2016-grand-finals-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Wargaming.net League 2016 Grand Finals Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top World of Tanks eSports teams to battle over $300,000 prize pool<\/p>\n<p>Wargaming is excited to announce the 2016 Grand Finals will be taking place on April 8\u20139 in Torwar Hall, Warsaw, Poland. This giant, international tournament is the crowning achievement for any Wargaming.net League team and signifies which World of Tanks players stand out from the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve elite eSports teams will take to the stage with the top two teams from North America, Europe, CIS, and Asia\u2014plus three wildcards\u2014and one team from China all competing over the $300,000 prize pool. With the new Tier X format rolling out, audiences can expect to see the biggest and best tanks in an intense event that\u2019s not to be missed. Throwing in a maximum number of 68 Tier points to play with and an increased match time of 10 minutes (previously seven), teams will have to go back to the drawing board to reinvent their game plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wargaming.net League Grand Finals represents the pinnacle of World of Tanks eSports,\u201d said Mohammed Fadl, Head of Global Competitive Gaming, Wargaming. \u201cDuring the 2015\u20132016 season, the WGL has given out over $3 million in prizes. For this year\u2019s Grand Finals, we are putting up another impressive cash prize. We\u2019ll see the best teams, taking to our biggest stage, with their reputations on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Grand Finals, hosted at the EXPO XXI arena in Warsaw, drew more than 15,000 Wargaming fans to the venue and 2.6 million unique viewers online\u2014all there to be a part of the Wargaming.net League\u2019s biggest tournament to date. The winners of the event, HellRaisers, battled it out with EL Gaming to claim the crown. While they may be the current world champions, all bets are off on who will take home the coveted title in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Grand Finals will be free to the public, with a variety of activities and exclusive prizes for attendees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information on the Wargaming.net League Grand Finals, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegrandfinals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thegrandfinals.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top World of Tanks eSports teams to battle over $300,000 prize pool Wargaming is excited to announce the 2016 Grand Finals will be taking place on April 8\u20139 in Torwar Hall, Warsaw, Poland. This giant, international tournament is the crowning achievement for any Wargaming.net League team and signifies which World of Tanks players stand out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/01\/22\/wargaming-net-league-2016-grand-finals-announced\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esports-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}