{"id":1547,"date":"2017-03-16T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2017-03-16T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:35:16","slug":"official-gwent-witcher-card-game-tournament-organized-partnership-esl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2017\/03\/16\/official-gwent-witcher-card-game-tournament-organized-partnership-esl\/","title":{"rendered":"Official GWENT: The Witcher Card Game tournament organized in partnership with ESL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce GWENT Challenger \u2014 an official GWENT: The Witcher Card Game tournament organized in partnership with ESL.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will pit 4 best players from the community against professional gamers: Trump (Jeffrey Shih), Lifecoach (Adrian Koy), Noxious (Kacem Khilaji) and ppd (Peter Dager). GWENT Challenger finalists will compete for a total prize pool of $100,000. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a real privilege to observe how active GWENT players are in the realm of competitive gaming. Community-powered tournaments like The Passiflora Championship, The Seven Cats Brawl or The Gwentlemen\u2019s Open are a source of inspiration for the entire team, and we definitely want this part of GWENT to grow,\u201d said Pawe\u0142 Burza, Community Manager, CD PROJEKT RED.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGWENT: The Witcher Card Game was created because The Witcher community wanted it. Now we\u2019re seeing more and more gamers wanting to play GWENT competitively, so here we are with a chance to play against some heavy-hitters, and a prize pool to spice things up,\u201d said Marcin Iwi\u0144ski, Co-founder, CD PROJEKT RED. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to see who wins!\u201d Iwi\u0144ski adds.<\/p>\n<p>Registrations for GWENT Challenger Qualifiers, a detailed rule set, tournament roadmap and FAQ are all available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playgwent.com\/en\/tournament\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About GWENT: The Witcher Card Game<br \/>\nIn GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, gamers clash with their friends in fast-paced duels that combine bluffing, on-the-fly decision making and careful deck construction. The game is played over a best-of-three series of rounds, as players unleash their hand by slinging spells and diverse units with special abilities and use clever tricks to deceive their opponents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce GWENT Challenger \u2014 an official GWENT: The Witcher Card Game tournament organized in partnership with ESL. The tournament will pit 4 best players from the community against professional gamers: Trump (Jeffrey Shih), Lifecoach (Adrian Koy), Noxious (Kacem Khilaji) and ppd (Peter Dager). GWENT Challenger &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2017\/03\/16\/official-gwent-witcher-card-game-tournament-organized-partnership-esl\/\">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-1547","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\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}