eSports titles to be played at 2018 Online School Championships

Northcliff High School's 2017 winning 'VainGlory' team.

The 2017 MSSA Online Inter-schools Championships was no doubt the most well attended MSSA online championships ever.

The 2017 edition of the championships involved more schools than ever before from seven provinces, and many of the top private and public schools were represented.

Every year more-and more schools affiliate to MSSA, and many predict that within the next four years, the school online league shall involve more schools than any other sport.

Players were able to participate in CounterStrike: GO, DotA 2, FIFA ’17, HearthStone, League of Legends, StarCraft II, Tekken Tag Tournament II, and VainGlory.

MSSA believes that the Online School Championships remains an important foundation phase to the development of eSports as a whole. MSSA is too of the opinion that the winning winning teams and players will go on to rattle the cages off the older teams and successfully challenge the 'status quo' of the senior teams which will ultimately provide the competition needed for South African gaming to improve upon its current standards.

The winners of the 2017 championships are:

Title	Team name	Name of school
CounterStrike: GO	Spartans A	SAHETI
DotA 2	Parklands	Parklands College
FIFA'17	Mikhyle Naidoo	Northcliff High School
HearthStone	Gadi Friedman	Camps Bay
	Sheldon Arendse	Camps Bay
League of Legends	Fuga Dracones	Hoërskool Wonderboom
StarCraft II	Dylan van Heerden	Parklands College
	Adam Knoesen	Parklands College
Tekken Tag Tournament II	Connor Chaplin	Northcliff High School
	Nadine Swart	HTS Witbank
VainGlory	Pr0NHS	Northcliff High School

However, it is that time of the year when the member clubs of Mind Sports South Africa will decide upon which esports titles shall be offered for MSSA's 8th Online Inter-schools Championships.

The titles offered in 2017 were:

CounterStrike: GO

DotA 2

FIFA '17

HearthStone

League of Legends

StarCraft II

Tekken Tag Tournament II

VainGlory

The decision on the esports titles to be played in MSSA's 8th Online Inter-schools Championships will depend on:

• Nominations made by member clubs,
• Popularity of the esports title among entrants, 
• If the esports title will promote development and representivity,
• If the esports title will help produce future members for the Protea Esports Team, and
• The financial affordability of promoting such esports title.

Thus all those who think changes must be made, must please discuss such with your club chairmen/chairwomen.