{"id":114681,"date":"2020-06-26T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_first_bug-off_event_takes_place_tomorrow"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:30:00","slug":"animal-crossing-new-horizons-first-bug-off-event-takes-place-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-first-bug-off-event-takes-place-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons&#8217; First Bug-Off Event Takes Place Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3ac764c0a2e0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3ac764c0a2e0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Animal Crossing Bugs\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3ac764c0a2e0\/animal-crossing-bugs.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3ac764c0a2e0\/animal-crossing-bugs.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Animal Crossing Bugs\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already been promised some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_summer_updates_will_add_swimming_diving_and_more\">very welcome summer updates<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\"><strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong><\/a>, but this weekend brings even more fun in the form of the very first Bug-Off.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the summery Northern Hemisphere &#8211; and currently baking alive if you&#8217;re in the UK like us &#8211; then the next few months are about to get a little more interesting. On every fourth Saturday over the next four months (including tomorrow, 27th June) you&#8217;ll be able to take part in this cool competition hosted by none other than Flick.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For those of you in the northern hemisphere, tomorrow will be your first Bug-Off of the season! Yes, yes! I do hope you&#8217;ll be able to participate, but if you miss it, there will be Bug-Offs on the fourth Saturday of every month from now through September. Good luck! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l1PMO1tJya\">pic.twitter.com\/l1PMO1tJya<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Tom Nook UK (@AC_Isabelle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AC_Isabelle\/status\/1276425034278600704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of the Bug-Off before, it works in a very similar fashion to C.J.&#8217;s Fishing Tourneys, with players having to catch as many bugs as they can in a time limit. We have all the details you could ever possibly need in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-bug-off-event-date-start-time-flick-and-rewards-explained\">our Bug-Off guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Between this and the upcoming summer updates, life on the island is about to take a welcome turn for the better. Will you be diving in to all of this new content? Tell us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already been promised some very welcome summer updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but this weekend brings even more fun in the form of the very first Bug-Off. If you live in the summery Northern Hemisphere &#8211; and currently baking alive if you&#8217;re in the UK like us &#8211; then the next few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}