Results: 21st North West Provincial Championships

Sinister5 with their Provincial Colours certificates.

As the year continues with its relentless march forward, players frantically scramble for a place in MSSA's National Team Trials.

Thus MSSA's 21st North West Championships is the third last championship in which players may qualify for such Trials.

For those teams that have qualified, the work has begun in earnest in order to hone their skills for Trials, while some players are still desperately trying to qualify.

MSSA's 21st North West Provincial Championships were hosted by Curro Klerksdorp.

Thanks must be extended to Curro Klerksdorp and especially Hannes Esterhuizen.

The championship attracted players from the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, North West, and Mpumulanga.

Players battled it out to earn the various titles of North West Champion, and the right to fight for a place in the 2017 National Team Trials that will ultimately deliver a team to the IeSF's 2017 9^th World Championships later in 2017.

The  standard at MSSA's north west Championships has certainly improved, and the championship was  characterised by some very fierce competition.

DotA 2 was dominated by Sinister5. The newly affiliated team dominated their opponents in order to take first place and secure their berth in the National Team Trials.

The winners are:

Title	Name of player/team	Club	Colours awarded
Ancients (DBM) (female)	Elishia Retief	North West University	Provincial
Ancients (DBM)	Jason Batzofin	Old Edwardian Wargames Club
Counterstrike: GO	Soviet UZ	Midstream College	Provincial
Counterstrike: GO (High School)	Quantum	Curro Klerksdorp
DotA 2	Sinister5	Sinister5	Provincial
FIFA '17	Jade Appels	Curro Klerksdorp	Provincial
FIFA '17 (High School)	Lesedi Motale	Curro Klerksdorp
Mortal Kombat X (female)	Doreen Els	Teutonic Knights Mind Sports Club
Mortal Kombat X	Theunis van der Merwe	Curro Klerksdorp	Provincial
Mortal Kombat X (High School)	Tumelo Sesinyi	Curro Klerksdorp
PES 2017	Ryan Gathita & Mpumi Madeou	Curro Klerksdorp	Provincial – Mpumi Madeou
PES 2017 (High School)	Alessandro Sacca	Curro Klerksdorp
StarCraft II (female)	Dominique Magon	Blue Dragon	Provincial
StarCraft II	Stefan Morris	Blue Dragon	Provincial
Street Fighter V (female)	Doreen Els	Teutonic Knights Mind Sports Club
Street Fighter V	Theunis van der Merwe	Curro Klerksdorp
Tekken Tag Tournament II (female)	Doreen Els	Teutonic Knights Mind Sports Club
Tekken Tag Tournament II	Mark Morobane	Curro Klerksdorp	Provincial
VainGlory	Pr0NHS	Northcliff High School

In total 17 players earned the right to wear provincial colours.

Photographs of the event may be found on: https://www.facebook.com/146018324007/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10155891702889008