{"id":22672,"date":"2018-11-21T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22672"},"modified":"2018-11-21T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:24:47","slug":"rockers-back-league-of-legends-team-in-nfl-style-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22672","title":{"rendered":"Rockers back League of Legends team in &#8216;NFL style&#8217; revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A storied NBA team, a leading Bundesliga side and a rock band are some of the major sport and entertainment brands that are involved in the rebranding of an online game which has more than 100 million global players.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Riot Games &#8212; publisher of online phenomenon League of Legends &#8212; has unveiled 10 long-term partners that will take part in its remodeled European league next year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Starting from 2019, the league will adopt a franchise-style structure similar to the NBA and NFL. It&#8217;s hoped the new system will build on esports&#8217; increasing popularity and secure a sustainable future with a &#8220;brand new identity.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A storied NBA team, a leading Bundesliga side and a rock band are some of the major sport and entertainment brands that are involved in the rebranding of an online game which has more than 100 million global players.Riot Games &#8212; publisher of online phenomenon League of Legends &#8212; has unveiled 10 long-term partners that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}