{"id":1325,"date":"2016-11-22T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2016-11-22T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:02:29","slug":"ripstone-games-moves-esports-official-esl-pure-pool-ps4-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/11\/22\/ripstone-games-moves-esports-official-esl-pure-pool-ps4-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripstone Games moves into eSports with official ESL Pure Pool PS4 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>official ESL Pure Pool PS4 tournament<\/p>\n<p>Pure Pool is one of the first titles to be part of SCEE and ESL&#8217;s new PS4 Events schedule<br \/>\nThe first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/play.eslgaming.com\/purepool\/global\/purepool\/open\/contender-cup-1-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pure Pool Contender Cup<\/a> will start on December 3 2016<br \/>\nSign-ups\u00a0are now open on PlayStation 4 and the ESL website<br \/>\nPure Pool has now sold more than 300,000 units<br \/>\nThe game is currently half price on PlayStation 4 in Europe<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In association with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and the Electronic Sports League (ESL), developer and publisher Ripstone Games is today announcing a move into eSports, with its popular Pure Pool title\u00a0part of the first month of PS4 Events scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>Pure Pool, Ripstone and VooFoo Studios&#8217; premier pool game available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam, has sold more than 300,000 units to date across all platforms, and will now feature as part of ESL&#8217;s new PS4 Events programming on PlayStation 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Pure Pool Contender Cup will begin in Europe on December 3 2016, with any and all Pure Pool owners on PlayStation 4 welcome to sign up and compete. The full rules for the tournament can be found in the Sony PS4 Events App, and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.eslgaming.com\/purepool\/global\/purepool\/open\/contender-cup-1-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pure Pool ESL official page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is Ripstone&#8217;s first splash into the eSports scene, and the Pure publisher has plans for numerous other tournaments on PlayStation 4 in the coming months,\u00a0including for popular titles Pure Chess and Pure Hold&#8217;em, which have sold millions of units between them.<\/p>\n<p>Each Pure title from Ripstone contains numerous online tournament features as standard, putting the development house in a great position to move more fluidly into eSports with ESL in the months to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always strived to support online tournaments on PlayStation 4 within our popular titles including Pure Pool and Pure Hold&#8217;em,&#8221; noted Leo Cubbin, Ripstone managing director and co-founder.\u00a0&#8220;This new initiative with SCEE and ESL will allow us to provide our Pure Pool players on PS4 with an exciting, new competitive environment for the title.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>official ESL Pure Pool PS4 tournament Pure Pool is one of the first titles to be part of SCEE and ESL&#8217;s new PS4 Events schedule The first ever Pure Pool Contender Cup will start on December 3 2016 Sign-ups\u00a0are now open on PlayStation 4 and the ESL website Pure Pool has now sold more than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/11\/22\/ripstone-games-moves-esports-official-esl-pure-pool-ps4-tournament\/\">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-1325","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\/1325","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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}