{"id":5672,"date":"2018-07-02T08:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitaldips.pk\/?p=5672"},"modified":"2018-07-02T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:38:43","slug":"pakistans-biggest-pc-gaming-tournament-gamebird-lan-clan-concludes-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/pakistans-biggest-pc-gaming-tournament-gamebird-lan-clan-concludes-in-lahore\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Biggest PC Gaming Tournament \u2018GameBird LAN Clan\u2019 Concludes in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s biggest PC gaming tournament <em>\u2018GameBird LAN Clan\u2019<\/em> has concluded in Lahore with teams from Islamabad and Karachi emerging as winners of DOTA2 and CS:GO respectively and taking home the prize money of PKR 500,000. The tournament was sponsored by Telenor Pakistan as part of its efforts to strengthen the local gaming community.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming enthusiasts from across Pakistan participated in the tournament. After the initial online and city-level qualifiers, the qualifying players travelled to Lahore for the final showdown playing two of the most popular PC games &#8211; DOTA 2 and CS:GO. Alongside the main tournament, there were also different console, arcade, and mobile gaming competitions for different participants. The competition was preceded by a trophy unveiling ceremony. Other sponsors of the event included Wowbox, Chowkey, Gamebox, Koyal, Goonj, and My Telenor App.<\/p>\n<p>GameBird is the first gaming brand of the country that connects developers and gaming enthusiasts to boost and vitalize the gaming ecosystem in Pakistan. In order to bring greater enablement to online players, GameBird recently introduced redeemable STEAM Wallet Codes in Pakistan through which users can make in-game purchases on STEAM through their mobile balance. The service is currently available for Telenor users only.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe congratulate teams Eximious Gold and Portal E-Sports on winning the country\u2019s biggest PC gaming tournament and taking home the coveted trophy,\u201d said Durdana Achakzai, Chief Digital Officer at Telenor Pakistan. \u201cBeing the top proponent of digital technology and innovation, we at Telenor Pakistan are supporting and nurturing Pakistan\u2019s unmatched talent in the online gaming space. To that end, we also recently hosted Pakistan\u2019s first game summit in Lahore where the top talent of the world\u2019s gaming community converged to share thoughts and learnings on game creation and monetization. Through more of such measures, we will continue to support the Pakistani gaming landscape while providing our youth with robust platforms to showcase their talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018GameBird LAN Clan\u2019 was the first installment of the series of tournaments GameBird is planning to organize for gamers in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s biggest PC gaming tournament \u2018GameBird LAN Clan\u2019 has concluded in Lahore with teams from Islamabad and Karachi emerging as winners of DOTA2 and CS:GO respectively and taking home the prize money of PKR&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,181,182],"tags":[1533,1532,632],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}