{"id":113762,"date":"2019-10-09T01:50:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/09\/hong-kong-professional-gamer-banned-from-tournament-over-pro-democracy-comments\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T01:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:50:57","slug":"hong-kong-professional-gamer-banned-from-tournament-over-pro-democracy-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=113762","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong professional gamer banned from tournament over pro-democracy comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chung \u2018Blitzchung\u2019 Ng Wai was expelled from Hearthstone eventOrganizers announce one-year suspension and pull prize moneyChinese holding company Tencent owns stake in maker BlizzardA leading professional gamer from Hong Kong who was expelled from an international esports tournament after showing support for the city\u2019s protest movement has said he has no regrets.Chung Ng Wai, who represents the Asia-Pacific region under the name Blitzchung, had just won a crucial match at the Hearthstone Grandmasters tournament hosted in Taipei when he exclaimed in Mandarin \u201cLiberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u201d during a live-streamed interview. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/oct\/08\/blitzchung-hearthstone-blizzard-banned-hong-kong-protests\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong professional gamer banned from tournament over pro-democracy comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chung \u2018Blitzchung\u2019 Ng Wai was expelled from Hearthstone eventOrganizers announce one-year suspension and pull prize moneyChinese holding company Tencent owns stake in maker BlizzardA leading professional gamer from Hong Kong who was expelled from an international esports tournament after showing support for the city\u2019s protest movement has said he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}