{"id":91196,"date":"2019-03-31T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/nintendos_global_championships_for_splatoon_2_and_smash_bros_ultimate_take_place_this_june"},"modified":"2019-03-31T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:09:00","slug":"nintendos-global-championships-for-splatoon-2-and-smash-bros-ultimate-take-place-this-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/31\/nintendos-global-championships-for-splatoon-2-and-smash-bros-ultimate-take-place-this-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Global Championships For Splatoon 2 And Smash Bros. Ultimate Take Place This June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff1fcfb981d4e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff1fcfb981d4e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Splatoon Smash Bros\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff1fcfb981d4e\/splatoon-smash-bros.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff1fcfb981d4e\/splatoon-smash-bros.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Splatoon Smash Bros\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo will be hosting the global championships for both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> on 8th June in lead-up to this year&#8217;s E3. The Los Angeles-based finals will include players from North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia\/New Zealand. Below is the announcement from the Nintendo Versus Twitter account:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mark the date everyone, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmashBrosUltimate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SmashBrosUltimate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Splatoon2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Splatoon2<\/a> World Championships will take place on 6\/8! Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoNAO19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoNAO19<\/a> Champions will be representing the US in all the action. Stay tuned for more info in the future. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o6zLbHlsaq\">pic.twitter.com\/o6zLbHlsaq<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo Versus (@NintendoVS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoVS\/status\/1112006928341696512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the soon-to-be Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe will showcase some of the best players of some of our biggest games on a huge international stage,\u201d Whether you\u2019re cheering for a favorite player or you just love to watch top-level competitive play, you\u2019ll see how these events highlight the Nintendo community and bring people together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More details about this event, including how to attend or watch live online will be revealed in the near future on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/e3.nintendo.com\/\">Nintendo E3 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you follow competitive gaming? Will you be tuning to watch the top players duke it out? Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo will be hosting the global championships for both Splatoon 2 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on 8th June in lead-up to this year&#8217;s E3. The Los Angeles-based finals will include players from North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia\/New Zealand. Below is the announcement from the Nintendo Versus Twitter account: Mark the date everyone, the [&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-91196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91196","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=91196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}