{"id":45702,"date":"2023-03-15T04:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=45702"},"modified":"2023-03-15T04:45:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T04:45:48","slug":"the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=45702","title":{"rendered":"The Olympic Esports Series is a mess, and does Esports even need the Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the coveted guardians of the biggest multi-sporting event of the globe, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it was venturing into esports. The first IOC-sanctioned event is set to be the Olympics Esports Series 2023. The finals of the event will happen in Singapore from June 22 to 25&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/opinion\/olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-do-esports-need-the-olympics\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the coveted guardians of the biggest multi-sporting event of the globe, the International<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics.png",800,449,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics-300x168.png",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics-768x431.png",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics.png",640,359,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics.png",800,449,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics.png",800,449,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics.png",800,449,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics.png",800,449,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/45702-the-olympic-esports-series-is-a-mess-and-does-esports-even-need-the-olympics-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}