{"id":6588,"date":"2019-01-16T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T05:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2019-01-16T05:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T05:19:05","slug":"kfc-announces-call-of-duty-tournament-golden-membership-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/kfc-announces-call-of-duty-tournament-golden-membership-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC announces Call of Duty tournament, golden membership prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFC and video games \u2014 it&#8217;s just a match made in heaven, right?<\/p>\n<p>The top brass at the global fried chicken franchise seem to agree, after Colonel Sanders announced this week it would host a <a title=\"Call Of Duty betting guide\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/call-of-duty\/\">Call of Duty tournament<\/a> on January 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Call of Duty tournament, using the <em>Battle Royal, Blackout<\/em> mode, will be fought for a \u00a350,000 prize pool, as well as some delicious extras.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will feature 16 popular content creators with twitch and Youtube followings.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important prize on offer is KFC&#8217;s &#8216;black card&#8217; \u2013 a special edition membership which would allow its winner to eat for free.<\/p>\n<p>KFC, <a title=\"Puma signs on as esports apparel partner\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/puma-teams-up-with-cloud9-in-first-esports-sponsorship-deal\/\">like many of the world&#8217;s biggest global brands<\/a>, have been able to foresee the tremendous growth in eSports and is actively looking to target new demographics within the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-food franchise is a sponsorship partner with ESforce and also sponsors Chinese Dota 2 franchise, Royal Never Give Up.<\/p>\n<p>KFC has clearly caught on to its deep, emotional connection with gaming \u2014 it has a gaming-focused Twitter account and even released its own, bizarre video game last year, which was met with much laughter and shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFC and video games \u2014 it&#8217;s just a match made in heaven, right? The top brass at the global fried chicken franchise seem to agree, after Colonel Sanders announced this week it would host a Call of Duty tournament on January 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}