{"id":1397,"date":"2017-01-20T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:40:30","slug":"starcraft-ii-nation-wars-iv-finals-saturday-january-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2017\/01\/20\/starcraft-ii-nation-wars-iv-finals-saturday-january-21\/","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft II Nation Wars IV Finals on Saturday, January 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of StarCraft II\u2019s biggest stars will illuminate Paris this weekend in the Nation Wars IV finals! You and your readers can follow the action live as teams of top players clash for their countries in the culmination of a unique tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Poland, Canada, Germany, and South Korea are the remaining contenders, battling it out in the semi-finals and grand final broadcast live  (Below) starting at 16:00 CET this Saturday, January 21. <\/p>\n<p>The South Korean team may be the favorites to claim the lion\u2019s share of the $30,000 USD prize pool, but despite an impressive roster\u2014including reigning IEM champion Lee &#8220;INnoVation&#8221; Shin Hyung, as well as Joo &#8220;Zest&#8221; Sung Wook and Kim &#8220;sOs&#8221; Yoo Jin\u2014there\u2019s no guarantee that they\u2019ll dominate tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>A surprising 1-4 game group stage defeat by Canada over South Korea\u2014featuring some huge plays from StarCraft II\u2019s best-known female player Sasha &#8220;Scarlett&#8221; Hostyn\u2014means there\u2019s everything to play for. But don\u2019t count out the Europeans! Exceptional recent performances from Germany\u2019s Tobias &#8220;ShoWTimE&#8221; Sieber place him among the tournament\u2019s most feared opponents, while Artur &#8220;Nerchio&#8221; Bloch of Poland helped his team knock Nation Wars III champions France out of the group stages.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?channel=ogaminginter\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"378\" width=\"620\"><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/ogaminginter?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 OgamingInter on www.twitch.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/ogaminginter\/chat?popout=\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"500\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of StarCraft II\u2019s biggest stars will illuminate Paris this weekend in the Nation Wars IV finals! You and your readers can follow the action live as teams of top players clash for their countries in the culmination of a unique tournament. Poland, Canada, Germany, and South Korea are the remaining contenders, battling it out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2017\/01\/20\/starcraft-ii-nation-wars-iv-finals-saturday-january-21\/\">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-1397","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\/1397","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=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}