{"id":1390,"date":"2017-01-18T16:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:32:13","slug":"collegiate-starleague-working-ea-sports-host-madden-nfl-17-championship-series-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2017\/01\/18\/collegiate-starleague-working-ea-sports-host-madden-nfl-17-championship-series-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Collegiate StarLeague Working with EA SPORTS to Host Madden NFL 17 Championship Series Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Collegiate StarLeague (CSL) has announced that it is working with Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) to host and facilitate Challenger Events within the Madden Championship Series.\u00a0 As part of the competition, student gamers from across North America will have the opportunity to represent their school and compete for $10,000 in scholarships.\u00a0 The event will be hosted on CStarleague.com and the winners will advance to the inaugural Midwest Campus Clash at Columbia College in Missouri on April 8, 2017.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re so excited to be adding EA SPORTS Madden NFL 17 to CSL\u2019s offering of competitive leagues and tournaments.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the most popular titles not only on campus, but around the world and we listened to the community to add it as our first console game,\u201d says Duran Parsi, CEO of the Collegiate StarLeague.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRegistration is already open and league play will begin February 11, 2017.\u00a0 Madden NFL 17 is CSL&#8217;s first foray into offering gamers the opportunity to play console games, and the series is being hosted on both PS4 and Xbox One.\u00a0 The game will be played on Draft Champions mode with the top four competitors per console will be flown out to the finals to compete live to crown a collegiate champion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cCollegiate tournaments have been at the heart of the competitive Madden NFL scene for over a decade,\u201d said Matt Marcou, Madden NFL Competitive Gaming Commissioner. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to work with the Collegiate StarLeague in our ongoing effort to make stars of all of our players.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Madden NFL 17 event continues a busy year for CSL, who have previously signed a deal with Riot Games to host the uLOL Campus Series, a content creation and distribution partnership with Campus Insiders and a streaming partnership with Twitch.\u00a0 Further details including rules and regulations can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/cstarleague.com\/madden\" target=\"_blank\">CStarleague.com\/Madden<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Collegiate StarLeague (CSL) has announced that it is working with Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) to host and facilitate Challenger Events within the Madden Championship Series.\u00a0 As part of the competition, student gamers from across North America will have the opportunity to represent their school and compete for $10,000 in scholarships.\u00a0 The event will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2017\/01\/18\/collegiate-starleague-working-ea-sports-host-madden-nfl-17-championship-series-events\/\">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-1390","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\/1390","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=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}