Individual Battle Honours: Are you up to the challenge?

Jason van Wyngaard considering his options at the 2012 IWF World Championships.

MSSA has finally changed the Super League back to the very successful Individual Battle Honours.

The holder of the Individual Battle Honours may be challenged at any time by any MSSA Registered Player, as long as the notice period is adhered to, and is fought using the Handicap system.

The Handicap System is a proven developmental system which makes it possible for newcomers to have a fighting chance, pun intended, against the older and more experienced players.

Players enter with a handicap of 3, where older and more  experienced players may have a handicap of 10.
All Handicap games are played on a 32 - 0 scoring system.

However where a player with a handicap of 3 takes on a player with a Handicap score of 10, the player with a Handicap score of 3 gets 14 points, out of a possible 32, off his/her opponent before the game even starts.

Currently, the current holder has a Handicap score of 10. Everybody thus gets an advantage - it is going to be so much fun!

Thus the competition is up for grabs.

Pos	Name of Player	Club	Points
1	Webster, Colin 91	OE	10
2	Schoeman, Garth 02	KMSC	7
3	Barry, Sean 09	RPS	6
4	Batzofin, Jason	SJC	5
5	Holliday, Carl 09	PBHS	4
6	Allwright, Terence	OE	3
7	Retief, Elishia 14	OE	3
9	Burger, Erasmus	TUKS	3
10	Mullany, Donald	OE	3
11	Bouwer, Abie	OE	3
12	Havenga, Duane	WAR	3
13	Beuken, Leopold	RPS	3
14	Hervey, Simon	PBHS	3
15	Louw, Adam	PBHS	3
16	Retief, Ewan 14	OE	3
17	Getzner, Jacques	TKMSC	3
19	van Vuuren, Marius	WAR	3
21	Bouwer, Nathan	OE	3
22	Groenewald, Zenadia	WAR	3
23	Retief, Michael	OE	3
24	Love, Dorian	OE	3
25	Schoeman, Alex	KMSC	3

I would encourage gamers to make use of this opportunity, win the trophy and then play as hard as possible to retain it.

Previous holders of the Individual Honours Trophy are:

YEAR	ANCIENTS	CLUB
2016	Colin Webster	OE
2015	Garth Schoeman	KMSC
2014	Colin Webster	OE
2013	Colin Webster	OE
2012	Colin Webster	OE
2011	Dr David Vannucci	WITS
2010	Colin Webster	OE
2009	Colin Webster	OE
2008	Colin Webster	OE
2007	Edward van Trotsenburg	BWC
2006	Ingo Haferung	OE
2005	Ingo Haferung	OE
2004	Matthew Strachan (Jul)	MG
	Eugene Burger	OE
2003	Eugene Burger (Dec)	PEN
	Angelo Stathoussis (Dec)	OE
	Richard Ligault (May – Dec)	PEN
	Prof. David Davidson (Jan – April)	MG
2002	Prof. David Davidson	PEN
2001	Kevin Hoyle	OE
2000	David Webster	OE
1999	David Webster	OE
1998	David Webster (June – Dec)	OE
	Richard Gordon	PWC
	Christo Steenkamp (Jan-May)	WHAM
1997	Christo Steenkamp (Aug-Dec)	OE
	Pavel Rabiner (May '97 - Aug '97)	OE
	Pavel Rabiner	PWC
1996	Pavel Rabiner	PWC
	Christo Steenkamp (Jan – May)	OE
1995	Pavel Rabiner (Aug – Dec)	OE
	Colin Webster (Aug 95)	OE
	Dorian Botsis (Aug 95 - Aug 95)	OE
	Christo Steenkamp (Aug)	PWC
	Ben Fouche (Jan – Aug)	PWC
1994	Ben Fouche	PWC
1993	Ben Fouche (June – Dec)	PWC
	Colin Webster (Jan – May)	OE
	Grant Casey	OE
1992	Colin Webster (March – Dec)	OE
	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE
1991	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE
1990	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE
1989	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE

Please direct queries to: Sean Barry, 072 710 1286, nizzybarry@gmail.com

LAYING FIRM FOUNDATIONS

Maryke Kennard in action

The foundations laid by the IeSF are indeed proving to be the sort of stuff upon which great works are built.

From humble beginnings in 2008, the IeSF has consistently improved upon itself as visible seen through the annual IeSF World Championships.

If the growth of the membership is not enough, then certainly the way in which the IeSF instituted the Member Review System, handled its changes to its Statutes, and have continually hosted its World Championships bear further testimony to the readiness for the IeSF to take its place among all the other sporting codes at SportAccord and to further develop eSports as a true sporting discipline.

From a South African point of view, the only point that requires further emphasis is that of events dedicated to, and for, women. It has long been a treasured belief by the MSSA that you simply cannot exclude women from mainline gaming, and that everything that can be done, must be done to make sure that gaming is available to female gamers.

The ability for South Africa to send two women to the 2012 IeSF World Championships as part of the normal team, helped the MSSA create a far deeper awareness of eSports in South Africa. 

Since then, MSSA has ensured that females always are included in the South African Protea eSports Team.

The media coverage received from the female section of the team was truly phenomenal and reached the Ministry of Sport itself.

As a result of the much increased coverage, the MSSA is now able to further help develop eSports within the continent of Africa and build on its successes that it has already achieved over the past few years.