Calling all women who promote women in esports globally.

Amanda Pakade, MSSA President, is determined to nominate a woman who promotes other women in esports.

In 2013, Mind Sports South Africa's (MSSA) own Morizane Boyes won the Volunteer of the Year at the GSport Awards.

The Awards now has a category for: 

Global Woman in Sport [NEW AWARD]

• This new award seeks to honour a woman, who is impacting sport globally, and going the extra mile to put women’s sport on the map internationally.  

In the interests of continuing to promote esports as an accredited sport, MSSA requests any/or members who have candidates that they wish to propose to advise MSSA before 30 June 2020.

It is at the 2020 Momentum Gsport Awards women in sport are being put first as Momentum and the gsport Trust partner once again to stage the 2020 Momentum gsport Awards. The awards celebrates 15 years of the country’s longest running women’s sport recognition platform.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) shall be making nominations, and, in order to ensure that no stone is left unturned, MSSA is appealing to all clubs and Registered Players to submit their suggestions to the Board before 30 June 2020.

All details may be sent to mindsportscorrespondence@gmail.com

Also read:

• MSSA to make nominations to prestigious 2020 Momentum Gsport Awards.

TWO MSSA BOARD MEMBERS TO TALK.

Johan van Breda and Colin Webster are to talk in the Esports Africa Conference.

African Sports Tourism Week is holding a Zoom meeting featuring two panel sessions, being:

• Session 1: WHAT CAN ESPORTS DO FOR AFRICA?
• Session 2: WHAT'S IN ESPORTS FOR BRANDS AND GOVERNMENTS?

Colin Webster shall be a panelist in Session 1.
Colin Webster served as President of Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) from 1985 to 2013. Since 2013, Colin has served as MSSA's General Secretary. MSSA ran its first esports championships in 1998, and has since then run esports events every single year. It was through MSSA's efforts that esports became an accredited sport in South Africa in 2005. Colin was also incvolved in the founding of Confederation of African Esports in 2008, where he served as President from 2008 until 2013. In 2013, Colin stood down to accept the role of Secretary General.

In 2013, Colin was then elected onto the Board of International Esports Federation (IESF). In 2018, during his second term on the Board, Colin was then elected as President of IESF which lasted until 2020 and still serves as a Board Member.

Johan van Breda shall be a panelist in Session 2. Johan van breda is experienced as an international esports athlete, administrator, coach, umpire, official, team manager and entrepreneur - it is fair to say that Johan has experience in every asset of the esports industry. For the last demi-decade, his primary focus has been to address the issues at grassroots esports athlete development with a focus on scholastic and collegiate esports. In his efforts, he has co-founded ZAG Academy and the United States Esports Academy. Currently, he serves as the Vice President of Mind Sports South Africa and as a board member for the Confederation of African Esports.  

Redhill High School holds onto its lead.

Team LBSA (Oakhill School) from Knysna are now the South African School Champions for the Counter-Strike: GO esports title.

With the results of Mind Sports South Africa's (MSSA) South African High School Online National Championships having been published, the rankings have too now been updated for the Counter-Strike: GO esports title.

In such South African High School Online National Championships, Team LBSA (Oakhill School) -previously known as Team X - triumphantly won the championship, and in doing so, earned themselves High School National Federation Colours.

However, even though Team LBSA (Oakhill School) won the championship, Team HBS (Redhill High School) has managed to hold on to their pole position in the rankings. The members of Team HBS (Redhill High School) has already won the Online Inter-School Provincial Championships in February, the 11th Provincial Online Championships in April, and the GAUTENG Online Championships in May to earn themselves Gauteng High School Provincial Colours and Senior Gauteng Provincuial Colours. It is therefore expected that the competition will intensify between these two teams in the coming months, and certainly in the NWU MSSA Online School League which will start in July and run for five months.

The full South african rankings for the Counter-Strike: GO esports title are:

Pos	Name of Player	year	Club	Points
1	HBS	20	Redhill High School	327.1
2	Team X	20	Oakhill School	318
3	GUANTAP	20	Hoërskool Randburg	237.4
4	Redhill CS:GO	20	Redhill High School	207.3
5	Eclipse CS:GO	19	Eclipse Esport	140
6	PRG V	19	PRG	140
7	ZAG CS:GO	19	ZAG Academy	140
8	HackStack	19	Paul Roos Gimnasium	140
9	Oasis	19	Edenvale High	140
10	FF Gaming	19	Hoërskool Randburg	140
11	RISINSons	19	Helpmekaar Kollege	140
12	RKTF	19	Royal Knights	140
13	SOUTHERN5	18	SOUTHERN5	140
14	TcR CS:GO	18	Taccor Gaming	140
15	Genx Carpe Noctem	18	Generation X	140
16	Choke 9	18	Empangeni High School	140
17	The Pretenders	18	eThekwini Regional	140
18	Limbro's A	18	Fragcon	140
19	GHS CS:GO 1sts	18	Grey High School	140
20	Deity	18	Paul Roos Gimnasium	140
21	PreZtige	18	eThekwini Regional	140
22	Abstract	18	Paul Roos Gimnasium	140
23	Team Sidious	18	Team Sidious	140
24	ZAG Fearless	18	ZAG	140
25	RKTF	19	Royal Knights	140
26	Cyrex	18	Vereeniging Gimnasium	140
27	Monty Pythons	19	Fairmont High School	140
28	Curro CS:GO	19	Curro Aurora	140
29	PRONHS	20	Northcliff High	128
30	District_Zero	18	Protea Heights Academy	125.1
31	Cyrex	18	Vereeniging Gimnasium	122.6
32	NHS	19	Northcliff High School	122.5
33	Monnas ‘A’	18	Monument High School	120.5
34	Orion	18	eThekwini Regional	112.5
35	Voltaic	18	Paul Roos Gimnasium	111.3
36	SHS002	19	Sasolburg High School	106.9
37	CS GO: Outcast	20	Protea Heights Academy	100
38	Team FiB	19	Monument Park High School	100
39	GOTU	18	Hoerskool General Hertzog	100
40	Knights	18	Northwood High	100
41	Hyde Park	19	Hyde Park High	99.4
42	Normies CS B	19	NHHS	90.3
43	PEPPS	17	PEPPS	85
44	G3NTS	18	Northcliff High	82.8
45	Heron Bridge College	20	Heron Bridge	81.5
46	Boneles	18	Northwood High School	75
47	Monnas ‘B’	18	Monument High School	75
48	Team Palace	18	Knights Mind Sports Club	75
49	Team Sidious	19	Team Sidious	75
50	Normies CS A	19	NHHS	71.3
51	Bishop's CS:GO	19	Bishop's	67.8
52	Limbro's B	18	Fragcon	63.2
53	No Scopes	18	eThekwini Regional	56.3

Also read:

• Upcoming events: Limpopo Online Championships - 27 June 2020
• Upcoming events: Northern Cape Online Championships - 4 July 2020
• Upcoming events: NWU MSSA Online School League - Friday, 10 July 2020.
• Upcoming events: South African Schools' Online National Championships
• Calendar of  Events: 2020
• Affiliation: Schools
• Affiliation: Private clubs
• Esports titles selected: MSSA's School Championships.
• Esports titles selected: MSSA's Premier Championships.
• Results of MSSA's 10th Annual Online Championships for High Schools
• Results of MSSA's Western Cape Online Provincial Championships.
• Results: MSSA's 11th Provincial Online Championships
• Results: Gauteng Online Provincial Championships.
• Test Match results: South African Protea DotA 2 team rises triumphant.
• Test Match results: DOTA2: South Africa vs Azerbaijan
• New National Team Selection Criteria
• Selecting the national Protea teams for Mind Sports South Africa.
• Qualifiers: Clash Royale
• Qualifiers: Counter-Strike: GO
• Qualifiers: Dota 2
• Qualifiers: League of Legends
• Qualifiers: Paladins
• Qualifiers: Pro Evolution Soccer
• The road to Eilat
• IESF announces first three titles for 12th World Championships
• Rankings: Clash Royale
• Rankings: Counter-Strike: GO.
• Rankings: DotA 2 rankings
• Rankings: FIFA '20.
• Rankings: Hearthstone.
• Rankings: League of Legends.
• Rankings: Paladins
• Rankings: PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER (PES) rankings
• Rankings: Street Fighter V
• Rankings: Tekken 7 rankings