{"id":15358,"date":"2017-05-19T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15358"},"modified":"2017-05-22T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T10:30:25","slug":"in-e-sports-location-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/in-e-sports-location-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"In E-sports Location Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051917_1148_InESportsLo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adrianne Jeffries wrote about E-sports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>League of Legends is the most popular E-sports game, and the servers that power it are located in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>This means that it takes computers in Hawaii \u2013 6,700 km away \u2013 120 milliseconds longer for their actions to register.<\/li>\n<li>This has hamstrung Hawaii&#8217;s e-sporting professionals who have struggled to make the big leagues.<\/li>\n<li>The physicality of the internet helps explain why tournaments are hosted in big stadiums \u2013 keeping everyone on the same network in the same location evens the playing field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/1424\/hawaii-s-online-gaming-curse\">The Outline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrianne Jeffries wrote about E-sports: League of Legends is the most popular E-sports game, and the servers that power it are located in Chicago. This means that it takes computers in Hawaii \u2013 6,700 km away \u2013 120 milliseconds longer for their actions to register. This has hamstrung Hawaii&#8217;s e-sporting professionals who have struggled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051917_1148_InESportsLo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15361,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions\/15361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}