National Schools' League of Legends Ladder:

Hoërskool Wonderboom.

Fuga Dracones () successfully fended off assault-after-assault on their position by other high schoolsin the League of Legends esports Ladder during the 2017 season.

Thus, Fuga Dracones successfully held on to their position as the 2017 National School Ladder Champions. 

The ladder has again shown growth and is testament to the concept that and true development starts at school level. It is such development, that will in time, provide athletes that will eventually represent South Africa at IESF's World Championships and other international competitions..

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.

All gamers wishing to participate in the Ladder are requested to fully acquaint themselves of the rules (https://esportscommentator.blogspot.co.za/2017/12/inter-club-ladder.html)

The full ladder is as follows:

MSSA's National League of Legends Ladder
League of Legends – Schools
Pos	Name of Player	year	Club
1	Fuga Dracones (17)	17	Hoërskool Wonderboom
2	EHS LOL	17	Empangeni High
3	Virtual Desire Gaming	17	Hoërskool Wonderboom
4	Pr0NHS	17	Northcliff High School
5	Team Vapor	16	Sasolburg
6	Grey High Gaming	17	Grey High School
7	Northwood LOL	17	Northwood High
8	WBHS/LoL	17	Westville Boys
9	PRIDE	16	Parktown Boys
10	4 Dwarfs and a Giant	17	Hoërskool Wonderboom
11	Underwater Squad	17	Hoërskool Wonderboom
12	SSES LOL	16	St Stithians
13	GWH LoL	17	Glenwood House
14	RBHS LOL	17	Rondebosch Boys

Other National ladders are:

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

MSSA's VP Adele Janse van Rensburg to write for SASCOC.

Adele umpiring at MSSA's 2017 Mpumulanga
Championships.

Adele Janse van Rensburg is enjoying many of the benefits of membership.

In 2016 Adele received Mind Sports South Africa's Sportsmanship Award - the Dorian Love Trophy.

Then in December, Adele was elected to the position of Vice-President in MSSA's Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Adele too has earned herself Provincial Colours and has also been inducted as an official Provincial Umpire.

It seems as there is no stopping Adele as she takes on hurdle-after-hurdle, and all this while still holding down a job as well as running the club Generation X.

Well, Adele is not to be stopped as she has now become a guest columnist for SASCOC's magazine. Adele will be writing specifically about esports and the development of the code.

This is not the first time that esports has appeared in SASCOC's magazine.

Although the magazine is largely dedicated to the Olympic Sports, SASCOC has always been fair in giving coverage to all of its members' activities.

Thus in 2013, SASCOC gave extensive coverage in the magazine to the StarCraft II test match between South Africa and Romania in which Silviu 'NightEnd' Lazar and Robert 'PandaTank' Botha hammered it out against each other.

Now with Adele writing a guest column, esports will be even further thrust into the limelight by such august body.

Dorian Love Award for Sportsmanship - 2016

Adele ‘Nitebabe’ Janse van Rensburg.

2016 has seen huge changes in esports and in Mind Sports South Africa as a whole.

Even though, for decades, women have made a significant contribution, 2016 will long  be remembered in South Africa as the year when women stood up and took control of mind sports in South Africa.

One of the prime movers of that change is none other than Adele ‘Nitebabe’ Janse van Rensburg who has impressed all by her dedication, abilities  in the field of administration, and more importantly, in the field of play.

There is not a registered player that does not speak highly of Adele. Adele is generous in spirit in both victory and defeat. I have not yet heard a gamer that has heard a disparaging remark escape her lips.

Adele epitomises the type of gamer to which all gamers should aspire.

Thus MSSA's Annual General Meeting awarded the Dorian Love Trophy to Adele. This makes Adele the first woman to earn the award since its inception in 1987.

The full list of registered players who have been awarded the award since 1987 is as follows:

YEAR	DORIAN LOVE AWARD – SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
2016	Adele ‘Nitebabe’ Janse van Rensburg	VexxedPhoenix
2015	JessieJoubert	Rondebosch Boys
2014	Ion Todd	Knights Mind Sports Club
2013	Kyle Rhoodie	Knights Mind Sports Club
2012	Wouter Smit	HFW
2011	Baber Abbas	Tekken Guru
2010	Gregory Laycock	Pretoria Boys High School
2009	Dominic Aphane	WITS
2008	Tim Cruise	Peninsula Wargames Group
2007	Ramsey Louw	Paul Roos Gimnasium
2006	Greg Pullin	Peninsula Wargames Group
2005	Alexis Roodt	Pretoria Boys High School
2004	Ingo Haferung	Old Edwardian Wargames Club
2003	Nicholas Clare	OE
2002	Michael Karstens	Peninsula Wargames Group
2001	David Davidson	Peninsula Wargames Group
2000	David Davidson	Peninsula Wargames Group
1999	Bobby Stathoussis	Jeppe Quondam
1998	Ben Fouche	Pretoria Wargames  Club
1997	Jabulane Mazibuko	Gauteng Draughts Association
1996	Garth Schoeman	Jeppe Quondam
1995	David Smith	Old Edwardian Wargames Club
1994	Richard Pullin	Peninsula Wargames Group
1993	Dickon Jayes	Old Edwardian Wargames Club
1992	David Kitkat	Eastern Province Wargames Group
1991	Derek Murrell	Northcliff Wargames Club
1990	Shawn Comrie	Eastern Province Wargames Group
1989	Craig Nevin	Peninsula Wargames Group
1988	Stuart Rosenberg	Old Edwardian Wargames Club
1987	Steven Meskin	WITS