{"id":34479,"date":"2019-02-22T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=34479"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:09:44","slug":"philippines-to-host-asia-pacific-predator-league-esports-tournament-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/02\/22\/philippines-to-host-asia-pacific-predator-league-esports-tournament-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines to host Asia-Pacific Predator League eSports Tournament in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Acer confirms that this year\u2019s tournament that the Asia-Pacific Predator League in 2020 will be held in the Philippines. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The league&#8217;s 2nd year concluded on February 17 after three days of PUBG and DOTA2 championship rounds and amidst fans of over 10,000 that gathered at the Nimibutr National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u201cEspecially in the Pan Asia-Pacific Region, Acer provides a stage for young eSports athletes to display their gaming talents not only through exceptional hardware but also through the eco-system and industry,\u201d said Andrew Hou, President of Pan Asia Pacific Regional Operations, Acer Inc. \u201cWe hope that the athletes this year keep on as active members of the eSports community, and we will be glad to play with them again in 2020 in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfreecaFreecs\nFatal for PUBG and TNC Predator for DOTA2 emerged as the winners out of the 26 grand final teams that bested a whopping total of 3,530 eSports\nteams across Asia-Pacific to battle it out for the Predator League throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winners\nof the Asia Pacific Predator League 2019 are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PUBG<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Champion: AfreecaFreecs Fatal from The Republic of Korea, USD$ 75,000 prize money and Predator Helios Notebooks for each\nof the team members<\/li><li>First Runner-up: Purple\nMood from Thailand, USD$ 30,000 prize money<\/li><li>Second Runner-up: Team\nImmunity from Australia, USD$ 15,000 prize money<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOTA2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Champion: TNC Predator from Philippines<br>\nUSD$ 75,000 prize money and Predator Helios Notebooks for each of the team\nmembers<\/li><li>First Runner-up: BOOM ID from Indonesia<br>\nUSD$ 30,000 prize money<\/li><li>Second Runner-up: GeekFam\nfrom Malaysia<br>\nUSD$ 15,000 prize money<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s tournament that the Asia-Pacific Predator League in 2020 will be held in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[34,5603],"class_list":["post-34479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-headlines","tag-gaming-2","tag-predator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}