Winners of MSSA's 33rd S A National Championships.

Charlize Seremak went straight from MSSA's SA National Championships to IESF's 11th World Championships.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) held its 36th South African National Championships at Fakkel School of Skills on 7 and 8 December 2019.

As usual, the school was a superb host, and the championships ran smoothly and without a hitch.
MSSA's SA National Championships is the last event of the year, and is without doubt, the most important championships on the South African calendar as any player witshing to qualify for selection to the South African National Squad, from which the South African National Protea Team, shall be selected must participate at such SA National Championships. Of course there are exceptions in certain cases, but in such cases, MSSA must be contacted prior to the event. 

Having run for 36 continuous years, MSSA's SA National Championships is breaking records. However, not all the various disciplines have been played for the full 36 years. Wargames heads the bill at having been played at all 36 National Championships, with Board games (in the form of Morabaraba) having been included in 1996. Shortly thereafter, in 1997, checkers made its debut. It was only in 2005, even though MSSA had been running Provincial Esports events since 1998, that Esports made its way into the SA National Championships.

Despite the pedigree of the other disciplines, it is now esports that contributes the largest amount of participants, and has more games (periods) being hosted than any othe discipline.

Even with esports only having been represented at MSSA's SA National Championships since 2005, it makes the esports portion possibly the oldest running esports national championships in the world!

Eleven (11) games (periods) were played, of which one (1) was a wargame, two (2) were board games and the remaning eight (8) were esports titles.

It must also be stressed that only titles that are played at SA National Championships, qualify to have teams selected that will earn Protea Colours. There are exceptions to the rule, but they are exceptions...

The championship was hard fought, and the standard exhibited showed a marked improvement over previous years.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Title	Name of player/team	Club	Colours awarded
Ancients (DBM)	Terence Allwright	Old Edwardian Mind Sports Club	National Federation Colours
Checkers	Melikaya Nonyukela	Vultures	National Federation Colours
Clash Royale	Dale Spolander	Northcliff High School
	Daniel Lombard	Monument Park High School
	Wesley Pachai	Curro Klerksdorp
Counterstrike: GO	Team FiB	Monument Park High School	National Federation Colours
DotA 2	Pr0NHS	Northcliff High School	National Federation Colours
FIFA '19	Zuko Nomaqhiza	Curro Klerksdorp
FIFA '19 - High School	Kagiso Moagi	Curro Klerksdorp
Hearthstone -- Female	Vicky van Der Merwe	ZAG Academy	National Federation Colours
Hearthstone	Grey Craven	Curro Aurora
Morabaraba - Female	Saudah Bhaimia	Curro Klerksdorp	National Federation Colours
Morabaraba	Aidan Voster	Curro Aurora
Paladins	BOO Implode	BOO Gaming	National Federation Colours
Street Fighter V	Theunis van der Merwe	Hoerskool Klerksdorp
	Leonard Loftus	Masters of Mind Sports
Tekken 7 - Female	Charlize Seremak	ZAG Academy	National Federation Colours
Tekken 7	Shaun Claudio Lopes	North West University - Vaal	National Federation Colours
Tekken 7 - High School	Cilliers Swanepoel	Curro klerksdorp

Also read:

• Esports titles selected for all MSSA's Premier Provincial and National Championships

• Esports titles selected for all MSSA's School Championships.
• Esports titles selected for all MSSA's Student championships.
• 2020 Calendar of Events
• The various events held by Mind Sports South Africa.
• Why schools and universities should invest in esports.
• New National Team Selection Criteria
• Selecting the national Protea teams for Mind Sports South Africa.
• MSSA's umpiring course - 25 January 2020.