{"id":860,"date":"2016-07-01T21:41:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T21:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=860"},"modified":"2016-07-01T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T21:41:44","slug":"street-fighter-v-championship-aired-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/07\/01\/street-fighter-v-championship-aired-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter V Championship To Be Aired On ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN announced Friday it will air the Finals of the Street Fighter V World Championship during the Evolution Championship Series in Las Vegas. The event takes place July 15-17, with the Finals wrapping on July 17.<\/p>\n<p>The event will air on ESPN2, as well as streaming service WatchESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Evolution Championship Series &#8212; best known to fans as Evo &#8212; features a series of championships based on fighting games, where two players go head-to-head in a series of brawls. Along with Street Fighter V, other games including Mortal Kombat X, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom will be featured. Founded in 1996, it&#8217;s one of the earliest competitive video gaming tournaments launched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cESPN brings us an amazing opportunity to showcase the fighting game community competing at its highest level,&#8221; said Evo CEO Joey Cuellar in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN announced Friday it will air the Finals of the Street Fighter V World Championship during the Evolution Championship Series in Las Vegas. The event takes place July 15-17, with the Finals wrapping on July 17. The event will air on ESPN2, as well as streaming service WatchESPN. The Evolution Championship Series &#8212; best known &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/07\/01\/street-fighter-v-championship-aired-espn\/\">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-860","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\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}