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Saturday, 15 November 2025

Nominations required by midnight,19 November 2025 for MSSA's Management Board Awards.

Jessica Greef (ZAG Gaming) was named as the 2025 Mind Sports Person of the Year as well as Esports Player of the Year.

Mind Sports South Africa's Management Board Awards are the longest running awards for gaming in South Africa. The awards take into account all the various disciplines being, board gaming, card gaming, esports, and wargaming.

It could even be argued that such awards are the longest running awards for rewarding such athletes in the world having started in 2009. Whereas the long running awards (like BAFTA) acknowledge the games themselves, MSSA's Management Board Awards acknowledge the contribution made by the very gamers/athletes themselves. 

MSSA's Management Board Awards were initiated in 2009 to reward excellence not specifically provided for in MSSA's Constitution.

When reading through the names of those previously honored, the reader is quickly reminded of MSSA's rich history. The names are not just names, these are the men and women who have made an incredible contribution to the various mind sports in South Africa and even beyond South Africa's borders.

The awards are now more representative of MSSA's membership, of the work being done, and of society as a whole.

It should be noted by the reader that the categories for Writer of the Year, Social Media Person of the Year, and Sponsor of the Year are open categories and apply to anyone that has given their 'all' to the development of boardgames, card games, esports, and wargames as a sport.

The awards now take into account the following categories:
  • Mind Sports Person of the Year
  • Board Gamer of the Year
  • Esports Player of the Year
  • Wargamer of the Year
  • Team of the Year
  • Volunteer of the Year
  • Umpire of the Year
  • Coach of the Year
  • Educator of the Year
  • Writer of the Year
  • Social Media Person of the Year
  • Sponsor of the Year
MSSA's Management Board requests all members to make submissions by midnight 17 November 2025.

The names of previous winners may be seen on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Sports_South_Africa#Management_Board_Awards

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Wednesday, 30 July 2025

IESF's African Regional Championships - FINAL RESULTS - Tuesday, 29 July 2025.

Richard Henry (Captain) lead the South African Protea Esports Team for the PUBGM title to a very credible fourth place finish. The  final day of play can be seen on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQq6ZuoouYU

Even though Egypt lead from star to finish and triumphed over all, the South African Protea Esports Team for the PUBGM title battled on determined to give their best and uphold the honour of South Africa in this tough international championship. Seventeen African countries participated in total.

However, the standard of play of Egypt, Algeria and Morocco is just on a different level. Even though the three countries were disadvantaged by bad latency (ping), the skills that the three countries have honed by being able to effectively play on European servers meant that the three countries are almost untouchable by the rest of Africa.

Game 10 results!
Nevertheless, South Africa finished in a very credible 4th place.

The South African Protea Esports Team for the PUBGM title team managed to win game 10 in a championship where the majority of the 12 games were won by Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco. Winning game 10 was thus no small feat!

South Africa winning game 10, and finishing 4th overall, establishes South Africa  as the strongest African team barring the juggernaughts of  Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco.

The South African Protea Esports Team for the PUBGM title has thus improved on its 2024 position where it finished in fifth position.

There is obviously a lot more work that South African PUBGM athletes and coaches must do in order to raise their standard of play to equal, or hopefully better, the standard of play of Egypt, Morocco and Algeria.

The full South African Protea Esports Team for PUBGM is:

NameClubNickProvince
Richard Henry (Capt.)Team ENVReverbEastern Cape
Jaden MoonsamyTeam ENVMLKKwaZulu Natal
Clayton LeakTeam ENVLinksWestern Cape
Dylan PrattenTeam ENVSneaxKwaZulu Natal

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Tuesday, 29 July 2025

African Regional Championships - Day 2 - Tuesday, 29 July 2025 at 17H00.

 

IESF's African Regional Championships resume on Tuesday, 29 July 2025 at 17H00 and are streamed on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQq6ZuoouYU

MSSA's predictions are so far holding true. Egypt, and Morocco (now joined by Algeria) are dominating the field of play even with the ping disadvantage due to the server being hosted in Nigeria.

In online games, "ping" refers to the delay (latency) between your device and the game server.

  • Measured in milliseconds (ms)
  • Lower ping = smoother gameplay
  • High ping = lag or delay in your actions being registered
Bad ping in gaming—typically anything above 100 ms—can significantly affect your experience. 

Thus, although Somalia, Mauritius and Madagascar  are not in the top five, these countries must be commended for their high standard of play as they are battling with the worst ping compared to many of the other contenders.

It is therefore surprising to see the lacklustre performance of Ghana and Nigeria considering that their ping is very low as compared to the majority of other participating nations. See https://esportscommentator.blogspot.com/2025/07/south-africa-takes-to-field-in-pubgm-on.html

However, the South African Protea Esports Team for the PUBGM title is currently sitting in fourth place.

There is a great deal of hope within MSSA's team that the team can still finish in the top three. The lead that Egypt has created is almost unassailable and it seems as though Egypt will win IESF's African Regional Championships - unless there is some sort of disaster that overtakes the 2024 Champions...

Johan van Breda, National Team Manager, stated, "The team is performing  as expected, and although we are besting many African countries, there is still much to do in order to reach the international standard."

IESF's African Regional Championships resume on Tuesday, 29 July 2025 at 17H00 and are streamed on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQq6ZuoouYU

The full South African Protea Esports Team for PUBGM is:

NameClubNickProvince
Richard Henry (Capt.)Team ENVReverbEastern Cape
Jaden MoonsamyTeam ENVMLKKwaZulu Natal
Clayton LeakTeam ENVLinksWestern Cape
Dylan PrattenTeam ENVSneaxKwaZulu Natal

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