{"id":7254,"date":"2018-05-04T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2018-05-04T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:54:46","slug":"iem-sydney-kicks-into-high-gear-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/iem-sydney-kicks-into-high-gear-today\/","title":{"rendered":"IEM Sydney kicks into high gear today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7255\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/27125817\/CSGO-comes-down-under-for-IEM-Sydney-1024x488-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Intel Extreme Masters CS:GO finals get underway in Sydney today, running through until Sunday the 6th at the Qudos Bank Arena. Filling the stands with more than 7,000 fans and streaming out to over 8 million this year&#8217;s event promises to be even bigger and better as the world&#8217;s best CS:GO teams descend upon Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Competing for a US$250k prize pool 16 teams have been in competition since Tuesday, now whittled down to 8 for the weekend&#8217;s finals series. The series is wide open with last year&#8217;s winners SK Gaming knocked out by locals Grayhound in a major upset during the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>For Sydney siders, tickets are still available for the final day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelextrememasters.com\/season-13\/sydney\/tickets\/\">here<\/a>. For everyone else you can watch the action live via <a href=\"http:\/\/live.intelextrememasters.com\">IEM&#8217;s official stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelextrememasters.com\/season-13\/sydney\/\">IEM Sydney 2018<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Intel Extreme Masters CS:GO finals get underway in Sydney today, running through until Sunday the 6th at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[193],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254"}],"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=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}