{"id":857589,"date":"2025-06-23T19:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/geoguessr-pulls-out-of-the-esports-world-cup-after-a-community-protest\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:12:22","slug":"geoguessr-pulls-out-of-the-esports-world-cup-after-a-community-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/geoguessr-pulls-out-of-the-esports-world-cup-after-a-community-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoGuessr pulls out of the Esports World Cup after a community protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind GeoGuessr is withdrawing the location-guessing game from the Esports World Cup (EWC) after fans protested its decision to participate in the event. Community members pulled many popular custom maps from the game after it emerged the game&#8217;s publisher, GeoGuessr AB, was going to hold a tournament at the EWC&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/geoguessr-pulls-out-of-the-esports-world-cup-after-a-community-protest-151138984.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Kris Holt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind GeoGuessr is withdrawing the location-guessing game from the Esports World Cup (EWC) after fans protested its decision to participate in the event. Community members pulled many popular custom maps from the game after it emerged the game&#8217;s publisher, GeoGuessr AB, was going to hold a tournament at the EWC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":857590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143206,1366,192],"tags":[143205,7458],"class_list":{"0":"post-857589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geoguessr","8":"category-pulls","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-geoguessr","11":"tag-pulls"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}