{"id":11672,"date":"2020-12-09T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:20:22","slug":"uci-to-hold-the-first-cycling-esports-world-championships-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/uci-to-hold-the-first-cycling-esports-world-championships-today\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI to hold the first &#8220;Cycling Esports World Championships&#8221; today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UCI, cycling&#8217;s governing international body, has endorsed the first ever Esports version of the coveted &#8220;UCI World Championships&#8221; to be run via virtual cycling platform Zwift.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kicking off today, December 9th at 14:00 GMT (1:00am, Dec 10th AEDT) the event will move the competition to the virtual race track with some of cycling&#8217;s best professionals competing in both a women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s version of the new competition.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the likes of Rigoberto Uran, Esteban Chaves and Australia&#8217;s own Jack Haig <a href=\"https:\/\/zwift.com\/news\/23981-2020-zwift-uci-cycling-esports-world-championships-start-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the lineup is quite remarkable<\/a> for a circuit race set to take place on Zwift&#8217;s fictitious Watopia island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zwift.com\/p\/where-to-watch-the-2020-uci-cycling-esports-world-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broadcast live on a variety of TV networks<\/a> and online the new event is yet another example of Esports crossing into the wider public&#8217;s view albeit in a more hybrid format in using Zwift, a popular technology that allows cyclists to simulate riding in the real world whilst attached to a &#8220;trainer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UCI, cycling&#8217;s governing international body, has endorsed the first ever Esports version of the coveted &#8220;UCI World Championships&#8221; to be run via virtual cycling platform Zwift.\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1449],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11675,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions\/11675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}