{"id":2396,"date":"2021-02-22T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/blast-premiere-donate-12-5k-for-our-work"},"modified":"2021-09-23T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:52:01","slug":"blast-premiere-donate-12-5k-for-our-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/blast-premiere-donate-12-5k-for-our-work","title":{"rendered":"BLAST Premiere donate $12.5k for our work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worldwide Counter-Strike tournament organiser\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blastpremier.com\/\">BLAST Premier<\/a>\u00a0has pledged $12,500 to our life-changing work.<\/p>\n<p>BLAST Premier started putting fines aside that were deducted from teams during the 2020 Fall Season and Global Final and pledged to give these to a charity of choice. We simply can\u2019t thank the team at BLAST enough for choosing us to receive such a wonderful and innovative gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Haworth, Commissioner for BLAST Premier, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be able to donate last season\u2019s BLAST Premier Fall Season team fines towards such an important and worthy cause in the form of SpecialEffect\u2019s life-changing work. We know first hand the good gaming and esports brings to millions of lives around the world, but not all of us are fortunate enough to be able to readily access it and that\u2019s where their brilliant work comes in, by ensuring those with disabilities don\u2019t miss out on the good gaming can bring to their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blastpremier.com\/news\/donation-specialeffect\/\">The full announcement from BLAST Premiere can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2637 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/blastlarge.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worldwide Counter-Strike tournament organiser\u00a0BLAST Premier has pledged $12,500 to our life-changing work. BLAST Premier started putting fines aside that were deducted from teams during the 2020 Fall Season and Global Final and pledged to give these to a charity of choice. We simply can\u2019t thank the team at BLAST enough for choosing us to receive such a wonderful and innovative gesture.nAndrew Haworth, Commissioner for BLAST Premier, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be able to donate last season\u2019s BLAST Premier Fall Season team fines towards such an important and worthy cause in the form of SpecialEffect\u2019s life-changing work. We know first hand the good gaming and esports brings to millions of lives around the world, but not all of us are fortunate enough to be able to readily access it and that\u2019s where their brilliant work comes in, by ensuring those with disabilities don\u2019t miss out on the good gaming can bring to their lives.\u201dnThe full announcement from BLAST Premiere can be found here.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundraiser"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BLAST Premiere donate $12.5k for our work - SpecialEffect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/blast-premiere-donate-12-5k-for-our-work\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BLAST Premiere donate $12.5k for our work - SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The worldwide Counter-Strike tournament organiser\u00a0BLAST Premier has pledged $12,500 to our life-changing work. 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