{"id":22929,"date":"2018-06-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/reminder_the_mario_tennis_aces_pre-launch_online_tournament_begins_today"},"modified":"2018-06-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:00:00","slug":"reminder-the-mario-tennis-aces-pre-launch-online-tournament-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/01\/reminder-the-mario-tennis-aces-pre-launch-online-tournament-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: The Mario Tennis Aces Pre-launch Online Tournament Begins Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/reminder_the_mario_tennis_aces_pre-launch_online_tournament_begins_today\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/reminder_the_mario_tennis_aces_pre-launch_online_tournament_begins_today\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/reminder_the_mario_tennis_aces_pre-launch_online_tournament_begins_today\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_tennis_aces\"><strong>Mario\u00a0Tennis Aces<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; release just around the corner, Nintendo is giving fans the chance to try out the game in a pre-launch online tournament. In case you&#8217;d forgotten, or in case you hadn&#8217;t heard about the event at all, here&#8217;s a friendly reminder to show you when you can start playing.<\/p>\n<p>For European players, the event gets underway today (1st June) at 3pm BST, ending on Sunday 3rd June at 11:59pm BST.<\/p>\n<p>For players in North America, the tournament starts today (1st June) at 6pm PDT \/ 9pm EDT, ending at 11:59pm PDT Sunday 3rd June.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you&#8217;ll be able to choose from Mario, Bowser,\u00a0Peach, or Yoshi,\u00a0and can challenge the &#8220;online tournament&#8221; as many times as you like. More characters will unlock as you play, and you&#8217;ll be able to get your hands on the &#8216;Overalls Mario&#8217; costume for use in the full game if you take part. The software can already be downloaded directly from the Switch eShop.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be jumping onto the courts? Let us know if you&#8217;ll be serving up a few games in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] With Mario\u00a0Tennis Aces&#8216; release just around the corner, Nintendo is giving fans the chance to try out the game in a pre-launch online tournament. In case you&#8217;d forgotten, or in case you hadn&#8217;t heard about the event at all, here&#8217;s a friendly reminder to show you when you can start playing. For European [&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-22929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22929","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=22929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}