{"id":105579,"date":"2016-03-14T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=105579"},"modified":"2016-03-11T23:26:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:26:27","slug":"iium-e-sports-club-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=105579","title":{"rendered":"IIUM E-Sports Club launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Muhammad Firdaus Roslan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">GOMBAK, 5 March 2016: The newly established E-Sport club held a launching ceremony at Kulliyah of Information Computer Technology (KICT) which was attended by Deputy Rector (Student Affairs), Datuk Dr. Mizan Hitam and E-sport Malaysia Secretary-General, Rinie Ramli. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">The launching ceremony was officiated by the Deputy Rector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">A big number of participants attended the launching ceremony, including the alumni and students of IIUM. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">The event started at 11 a.m with a recital of a surah from the Quran. This was followed by a speech from the co-founder of the club to welcome the guests to the launching ceremony. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">The club&#8217;s objective was based on 3E which are \u0153explore, educate and encourage\u009d. He added that IIUM E-sport club is not only about playing games but to make IIUM students explore new things in this world as well as to educate IIUM students on how to be a great gamers as Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">E-sport Malaysia Secretary-General, Rinie Ramli stated that he was &#8220;stunningly amazed that Islam and gaming can be together.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">He also added that soon Malaysia will be hosting ASEAN E-sport and he wanted IIUM students to be the representatives for the IIUM. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373e4d;\">In his speech, Datuk Dr Mizan said he was happy that a big number of students have come to the launching ceremony. Moreover, he gave advice to the students to use the social media to advertise and help make E-sport known to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;We must not become a keyboard warrior but a warrior in the real world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The co-founder of IIUM E-sport club gave the honour to Datuk Dr Mizan to cut the ribbon as a symbol of the launching of the IIUM E-Sport club.***\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Muhammad Firdaus Roslan GOMBAK, 5 March 2016: The newly established E-Sport club held a launching ceremony at Kulliyah of Information Computer Technology (KICT) which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105774,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105579\/revisions\/105774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}