{"id":1350,"date":"2016-12-07T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2016-12-07T12:53:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:53:51","slug":"grand-finals-overwatch-mga-2016-championship-kick-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/12\/07\/grand-finals-overwatch-mga-2016-championship-kick-off-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Finals of Overwatch MGA 2016 Championship kick off today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 7th and tomorrow, Thursday December 8th, the Gfinity Arena in Fulham hosts the LIVE FINALS in the $75,000 MGA Overwatch 2016 Championship. Four international teams will be competing for a share of the prize and the coveted trophy. You can watch all the action live at the arena or online (Below).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter nearly a month of heated competition, from the Online Qualifiers to the Regional Finals, the top three teams advancing to the Grand Finals are: Rise Nation from America, Ninjas in Pyjamas from Europe, and KongDoo Panthera from Asia. The MSI invited team \u2013 Fnatic will be joining in to compete for the championship. The Grand Finals will take place using the Competitive Mode and will be played out in a best of five, double-elimination series. The final playoff will feature a best of seven contest.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nGeneral Information:<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nDate: Wednesday December 7th &#8211; Thursday December 8th<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nDoors Open: Wednesday and Thursday: 2:30 PM GMT<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nBroadcast Start Times:<br \/>\nWednesday: 3:00 PM GMT, 4:00 PM CET, 10:00 AM EST, 9:00 AM CST, 8:00 AM MST, 7:00 AM PST, 2:00 AM AEDT<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nLocation: The Gfinity Arena, London<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nOrganisers: Gfinity, MSI and MSI MGA<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nBroadcast Lineup:<br \/>\nSoe \u201cSoembie\u201d Gschwind-Penski<br \/>\nMitch \u201cUberShouts\u201d Leslie<br \/>\nAndrew \u201cZP\u201d Rush<br \/>\nJosh \u201cSideshow\u201d Wilkinson<br \/>\nRobert \u201cHexagrams\u201d Kirkbride<br \/>\nPrize pool: $75,000<\/p>\n<p>Place<br \/>\nPrize<\/p>\n<p>1st<br \/>\n$40,000<\/p>\n<p>2nd<br \/>\n$20,000<\/p>\n<p>3rd<br \/>\n$10,000<\/p>\n<p>4th<br \/>\n$5,000<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTeams<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nEurope:<br \/>\nNinjas in Pyjamas &#8211; Fragi | hymzi | kyynel | mafu | Zuppehw | zappis<\/p>\n<p>America:<br \/>\nRise Nation &#8211; Desro | Locke | Spirit | xRetzi | IVIidnight | Phaz<\/p>\n<p>Asia:<br \/>\nKongDoo Panthera &#8211; EVERMORE | Rascal | Butcher | wakawaka | Bishop | r2der<\/p>\n<p>Wildcard:<br \/>\nFnatic &#8211; buds | coolmatt69 | Stoop | Custa | Vonethil | Hafficool \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?channel=msigamingameu\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"378\" width=\"620\"><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/msigamingameu?tt_medium=live_embed&#038;tt_content=text_link\" style=\"padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:345px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline;\">Watch live video from MSIGamingAMEU on www.twitch.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/msigamingameu\/chat?popout=\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"500\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 7th and tomorrow, Thursday December 8th, the Gfinity Arena in Fulham hosts the LIVE FINALS in the $75,000 MGA Overwatch 2016 Championship. 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You can watch all the action live at the arena or online (Below). \u00a0 After &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/12\/07\/grand-finals-overwatch-mga-2016-championship-kick-off-today\/\">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-1350","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\/1350","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=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}