{"id":7263,"date":"2018-05-07T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:02:59","slug":"the-afl-to-hold-a-state-based-league-of-legends-competition-in-melbourne-this-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/the-afl-to-hold-a-state-based-league-of-legends-competition-in-melbourne-this-november\/","title":{"rendered":"The AFL to hold a state based League of Legends competition in Melbourne this November\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsapi.com.au\/image\/v1\/61c5af053b6591cadbd1bc3ac5b542a1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The AFL has partnered with esports giants Riot Games to host a major gaming tournament in Melbourne this November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be called <em>&#8220;League of Origin&#8221;<\/em> the competition pits teams of competitors from across Australia representing their home states.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst announced today, there is no final date or venue set beyond November &amp; Melbourne. With that said the AFL has long talked about either building a custom esports venue or using Ethiad stadium, which it owns.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/afl-in-esports-league-partners-with-riot-games-announces-league-of-origin-tournament-in-melbourne\/news-story\/d21337ed58ad724d6421af6d5c3556aa\">AFL esports, League of Legends tournament in November 2018, League of Origin, Riot Games, Oceanic Pro League | Fox Sports<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL has partnered with esports giants Riot Games to host a major gaming tournament in Melbourne this&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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263"}],"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=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}