{"id":3773,"date":"2025-07-25T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/uk-esports-player-makes-history-with-team-vitality-win-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:58:20","slug":"uk-esports-player-makes-history-with-team-vitality-win-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/uk-esports-player-makes-history-with-team-vitality-win-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UK esports player makes history with Team Vitality win | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Umb_isH7eT8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>William &#8220;mezii&#8221; Merriman has made history by becoming the first Brit to win a Counter-Strike Major.<\/p>\n<p>New dad Mezii was one of the Team Vitality players who won the BLAST tv Austin Major in the US, a win which netted the team $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>He sat down with BBC&#8217;s Newsbeat to discuss how he got into playing video games professionally, what it was like to compete in a Major final and what it was like to make history as the first Brit to win.<\/p>\n<p>(Credit: BLAST Premier)<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BLAST #Esports #TeamVitality #CounterStrike #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Umb_isH7eT8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William &#8220;mezii&#8221; Merriman has made history by becoming the first Brit to win a Counter-Strike Major. New dad Mezii was one of the Team Vitality players who won the BLAST tv Austin Major in the US, a win which netted the team $500,000. He sat down with BBC&#8217;s Newsbeat to discuss how he got into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[356,15,169,1748,565,368,1749,354,1750,496,162],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-india-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news","tag-world","tag-world-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}