National League of Legends Ladder.

MSSA's dynamic 2017 BOO! Protea League of Legends team.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA), South Africa's largest membership based gaming organisation has just released its latest ladder rankings for the League of Legends esports titles.

The ladder has shown growth from year-to-year and is testament to the growth of the game of League of Legends, and the enthusiasm to the true competitors who wish to represent South Africa at IESF's World Championships.

Players have represented South Africa in the League of Legends esports title at no less than four world championships, being Bucharest (2013), Seoul (2015), Jakarta (2016), and Busan (2017).

If IESF announces that League of Legends will be played at its 10th World Championships - Kaohsiung (Chinese Taipei), no doubt a South African team will also be present there.

The full ladder is as follows:

MSSA's National League of Legends Ladder
League of Legends – Senior
Pos	Name of Player	year	Club
1	Genx Nightwalkers (17)	17	Generation X (17)
2	Genx Prominance	17	Generation X
3	Yenex	17	THS Tom Naudé
4	White Rabbit Gaming	16	White Rabbit Gaming
5	VxP Goon Squad	17	VexxedPhoenix
6	Team Vapor	16	Sasolburg High
7	Team Try Hard	17	FRAGCON
8	St Stithians	17	St Stithians
9	St Conrads	16	Curro Klerksdorp
10	Oathbreakers	17	Valhalla
11	Liquad unknown	17	Non members
12	Limbros A	17	FRAGCON
13	Legion of Shadows	17	We are Legion
14	Gryphons	16	Knights Mind Sports Club
15	Fuzz Logic	16	VexxedPhoenix
16	Fuga Dracones	17	Hoërskool Wonderboom
17	First team	17	Tuks Mind Sports Club
18	Eternal	17	VexxedPhoenix
19	Dark Phoenix	17	VexxedPhoenix
20	MoMs	17	Masters of Mind Sports
21	Valkyrie	17	Valhalla
22	Pride	17	Parktown Boys
23	Silver and Friends	16	WOERIES
24	WBHS/LoL	17	Westville Boys
25	HS Parys	17	HSP
26	Dota 4 Lyf	16	Northcliff High
27	PR0NHS	17	Northcliff High
28	STS 1	16	St Stithians
29	9th Phanax	17	THS Tom Naudé
30	Virtual Desire Gaming	17	Hoërskool Wonderboom
31	Team Elusium	17	Hoërskool Wonderboom
32	lofdal	16	Lofdal
33	Empangeni lol	17	Empangeni High School
34	GWH LoL	17	Glenwood House
35	Genx Checkmate	17	Generation X
36	CCS Shadow Hunters	16	Crawford Sandton
37	Dark Phoenix	17	Generation X
38	fantacy storm	17	HTS/HGH
39	Death Squad	17	THS Tom Naudé
40	BISH	16	BISH
41	K1IIJOYS	16	Hoërskool Generaal Hertzog

Other National ladders are:

• Senior CounterStrike: GO
• Senior League of Legends
• Senior Tekken 7
• Schools CounterStrike: GO
• Schools Tekken 7

What if the entire team cannot attend National Team Trials?

MSSA's 2013 Protea DotA 2 Esports Team

The schedule for National Team Trials is demanding.

However, what if the entire team cannot attend National Team Trials?

From-time-to-time not all the players in a team that qualifies for MSSA's National Team Trials are able to all attend such Trials.

What happens then, does that disqualify the others from participating for a place in the national esports team?

The answer is that it does not as it is not the team that qualifies, but the individuals whom the team that so qualify.

Thus in 2013 when teams from both Bravado (Bvd) and Energy eSports both qualified, but found that not all their players  could attend such Trials, the teams combined in order to make a 'super' team which comprised the best of both.

In a way, this placed the selection of the teams in the hands of the players themselves.

Instead of having crusty old administrators chopping up working teams the players found that they themselves could take the initiative in creating a working national team.

Needless to say MSSA's 2013 Protea DotA 2 Esports Team was one of the most successful teams ever fielded by MSSA. The team may have lost to Romania in an exciting online test match, but a couple of months later, convincingly beat Mexico.

Thus the answer to the question raised is that a team that enters National Team Trials may consist of players from more than one club. That is should the clubs to which the players are affiliated agree thereto.