{"id":942,"date":"2016-07-22T21:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=942"},"modified":"2016-07-22T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T21:47:30","slug":"announcing-wgl-north-american-world-tanks-gold-league-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/07\/22\/announcing-wgl-north-american-world-tanks-gold-league-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the WGL North American World of Tanks Gold League &#8211; Season 1!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ESL Gaming<\/p>\n<p>ESL, the world\u2019s largest esports company, is excited to partner with Wargaming America and produce the upcoming Wargaming League North America (WGLNA) Gold League, a competitive tournament series for World of Tanks. The qualifiers for Season 1 are currently underway, and will culminate with the first official broadcast that will be streamed on Sunday, July 24 as we determine the final teams for Season 1.<\/p>\n<p>The regular season consists of eight weeks of matches and will begin on Thursday, August 4 with weekly broadcasts every Tuesday and Thursday. Teams of seven tankers slug it out across eight different maps as they battle for fortune and glory and a $325,000 prize pool. At the end of the season, shells will fly as teams head toward the WGLNA Season 1 Finals which will be broadcast as a live event in October.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to join casters Dustin &#8220;Godspeed&#8221; Kane and James &#8220;Rockstar&#8221; Grieve this Sunday, July 24 at 2PM Pacific \/ 5PM Eastern to catch the final qualifier, and again on August 4 at 5PM Pacific \/ 8PM Eastern as we spin up the full season. You can watch matches live on the Wargaming League North America Twitch channel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?channel=wglna\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"378\" width=\"620\"><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/wglna?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 WGLNA on www.twitch.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/wglna\/chat?popout=\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"500\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ESL Gaming ESL, the world\u2019s largest esports company, is excited to partner with Wargaming America and produce the upcoming Wargaming League North America (WGLNA) Gold League, a competitive tournament series for World of Tanks. The qualifiers for Season 1 are currently underway, and will culminate with the first official broadcast that will be streamed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/07\/22\/announcing-wgl-north-american-world-tanks-gold-league-season-1\/\">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-942","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\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}