{"id":211001,"date":"2025-10-23T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-youth-revolution-rocks-kenya-esports-as-nakuru-crowns-new-champions\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:22:51","slug":"kenya-youth-revolution-rocks-kenya-esports-as-nakuru-crowns-new-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-youth-revolution-rocks-kenya-esports-as-nakuru-crowns-new-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Youth Revolution Rocks Kenya Esports As Nakuru Crowns New Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>A new generation of gamers announced their arrival in emphatic fashion at the opening leg of the Kenya Esports Series, with fresh faces stealing the spotlight at the Flamingo Series held at the Old Nakuru Town Hall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">What was expected to be a stage for veterans turned into a showcase of emerging talent, as underdogs dominated across multiple titles to secure qualification for the National Finals set for December 12, 2025, in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In the eFootball final, 19-year-old Daniel Kibiwot&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230643.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 A new generation of gamers announced their arrival in emphatic fashion at the opening leg of the Kenya Esports Series, with fresh faces stealing the spotlight at the Flamingo Series held at the Old Nakuru Town Hall. What was expected to be a stage for veterans turned into a showcase of emerging talent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":211002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,14490,17780,30634,4688,430,11400,257,14191,12816,254,6276],"class_list":["post-211001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crowns","tag-esports","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nakuru","tag-news","tag-revolution","tag-rocks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}