Showing posts with label CSGO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSGO. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 June 2023

South Africa's females take on Namibia in CSGO.

Team Captain, Karla Grewar, is upbeat about SA's chances in their match against Namibia.

South Africa's all female team takes to the field today, 14 June 2023, in IESF's African Regional Qualifiers against Namibia in the CSGO esports title.

South Africa has much to prove after 2022 where South Africa was unable to enter its female team due to athletes withdrawing from the team at the last minute.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) is hopeful that the experienced 2023 team under the expert leadership of Karla Grewar has had the ability to lead South Africa to victory and to earn its place at IESF's 15th World Esports Championships in Lasi, Romania in August this year.

The National Protea Female Esports Team for the CSGO esports title consists of: 

Game titleName of athleteClub
Counter-Strike: GOKarla GrewarWhite Rabbit Gaming
Kaylee LudickWhite Rabbit Gaming
Rochelle Elizabeth NoortmanWhite Rabbit Gaming
Roelien van DykWhite Rabbit Gaming
Jessica Eleez GreeffWhite Rabbit Gaming

The match may be watched on:
🔴 twitch.tv/iesf_tv
🔴 youtube.com/watch?v=84PGfi


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Friday, 3 February 2023

Kazan to host Phygital Games

The Phygital games melds physical sports with esports...

Esports in a brand-new format? Sounds intriguing.

On February 5-11 Kazan will host the Phygital Games, an innovative new international sports event. CS:GO, Warface, MLBB, Dota 2 and Speedrun are all on the menu.

To the surprise of both esports fans and players, the organizers have decided to utilize a phygital format.


What does it mean? As the name suggests, “phygital” means a combination of both physical and digital. All the competitions will follow this formula, combining popular titles such as Dota 2, CS:GO, MLBB and Warface with laser tag. In the future, this exciting new format will evolve further with the physical aspect involving other activities, especially for MOBA.

This LAN tournament serves as a qualifying event for the Games of Future that will take place in Kazan next March.

Speedrun comes on track

Dates: 5-8 February 2023

Four teams, containing three athletes from the speedrun underground community, will showcase their skills and how they can hack the video games. Each run consists of three stages, on three different platforms – retro console, modern PC and retro PC – with the fastest overall team emerging as the winners. The competitors are set to compete in classic adventure games such as "Super Mario Bros.", "Comix Zone" and "Chip'n'Dale", horror games "Resident Evil 2 Remake", "Little Nightmares", "Mirror's Edge", along with "Hitman: Codename 47", "Quake" and "Serious Sam: The First Encounter".

  • February 5 – group stage
  • February 6 – semi-finals
  • February 7 – finals
  • February 8 – laser tag show match
In MOBA we trust: Dota 2 vs. MLBB winners compete in laser tag

Dates: 6-8 February 2023
Dota 2 teams: One Move, Alpha, Keyd Stars, Matreshka
MLBB teams: FREAK FIVE, Genius Esports, Team Max, Rose Noire

Several famous MOBA games are also on the agenda for the Games of Future disciplines. The event organizers elected the laser tag as the physical discipline for the first edition, but in the future they are contemplating to create a competition closer to the games’ own universes and concepts.

The teams will compete according to the Olympic system adhering to the rules of esports. Once the e-competitions are over, much like with Speedrun, the teams will take on one another in a laser tag show match.
  • February 6 – semifinals
  • February 7 – finals
  • February 8 – laser tag show match
Tactical Challenge

Dates: 9-10 February 2023
CS:GO teams: Websterz, HOTU, WINDINGO, 9 Pandas
Warface teams: Repulse, Awinaw, MementoMori, Winstrike

While Speedrun and MOBA contestants compete in laser tag in the exhibition format, those teams vying for the Phygital trophies in tactical challenge will get an even more authentic phygital experience. These e-players will battle it out in the cyber arena first, playing CS:GO and Warface, before carrying their scores over to the laser tag field for the conclusion of the contest. The team winning a round in CS:GO or Warface gains 1 point, while the victory in laser tag earns a further 2 points.
  • February 9 – semi-finals
  • February 10 – finals
The series of tournaments will be broadcasted on the Games of Future channels on YouTube, Twitch, Trovo, as well as on VK Play and VK.

Phygital Games are held ahead of the international tournament Games of Future, which will take place in Kazan in 2024. The first Phygital Games were successfully held in Kazan in September 2022 and included four disciplines - phygital football (FIFA + futsal), phygital basketball (NBA + streetball), Beat Saber and drone racing. In November and December there were Phygital Games including racing (Assetto Corsa + karting), martial arts (Mortal Kombat 11 + MMA) and hockey (NHL 22 + 3*3 hockey). Teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Turkey, Bulgaria and Iran have already taken part in the tournaments of the new format.

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Games of Future consists of five challenges: sports, tactical, battle, speedrun and technically assisted challenge. Disciplines of Games of Future currently include 16 innovative, carefully selected and sorted by popularity with youth sports. For example, if you take phygital football – one team playing against other first in FIFA cyberfootball, and right after - same team - same athletes - come on the physical pitch, where they play 5X5 footsal. It is important to note that both traditional sport and cybersport parts are played by the same athletes - these are the modern type of sportsmen that have both physical and digital skills.

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Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Calling all female esports athletes.

Gabriella Isaacs remains South Africa's top female esports achiever. Gabriella finished in second place at IESF's 2012 WEC in the StarCraft Female division - second only to South Korea's Kim "Aphrodite" Young.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) has always endeavoured to ensure gender equity in all levels of gaming.

Even when the gaming community was slow to accept such gender equality, MSSA held firm to its principles and ensured that there were females as part of all levels in South Africa.

MSSA has more females on its Board than any other esports federation, and has sent more females than any other national esports federation to compete at IESF's World Esports Championships (WEC). In fact, MSSA, in the form of Marisa Van Der Westhuizen, has had the first-and-only female Team Captain and Flag Bearer at an IESF event.

MSSA's current policies dictate that, where possible, half of all National Team Squads, from which the National Team, is selected, shall be female.

However, in 2022 MSSA did not fare so well. The Female CSGO team was unfortunately unable to attend IESF's 14th WEC and as a result the Namibian team snuck through the African Qualifiers to end in fourth (4th) place in Bali and scoop US$5,000.00 prize money.

There is though, a second chance for South African CSGO female esports athletes. IESF shall be hosting a CSGO event for females at its 15th WEC in Lasi in August 2023.

All that a female esports athlete needs to do to be considered for selection is to:

  • Be a member of an affiliated club,
  • Participate, and win, a MSSA Regional Championship and/or Derby event,
  • Participate, and finish in the top three or top 20% (whichever is greater), of a MSSA Provincial and/or National Championships, and
  • Be ranked in the top 20 places of the official ladder for females.
Lasi awaits those who are not of faint heart. The benefits of merely being selected for the National Squad and earning National Federation Colours is of huge benefit in everyday life.

Take advantage of the opportunity - you know you want to!

For further information please contact SSA on mindsportscorresspondence@gmail.com or on WhatsApp - 079 069 3089.

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Saturday, 21 January 2023

Armand van der Colf to talk on SAFm.


Protea Counter-Strike: GO Team member, Armand van der Colf to talk on esports and international competition on SAFm at 19H15 tonight. You can listen to SAFm on http://listen.safm.co.za/listensafm/


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Friday, 2 September 2022

IESF advises the prize money distribution for Bali 2022


Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA ) has been a member of International Esports Federation (IESF) since 2009. IESF has announced a total prize pool of $500,000 to be awarded at the upcoming 14th WE Championships Finals, taking place in Bali, Indonesia from 27 November to 9 December. The WE Championships prize pool has seen an unprecedented increase in just one year, from $55,000 in 2021 to $500,000 this year. 

Mind Sports South Africa's (MSSA) President, Colin Webster (also Past President of IESF) stated, "This is a welcome development which is the fruit of many years of hard work by successive IESF Boards. The increase in prize money will further enable the growth of esports as a mainstream sport and is greatly welcomed by MSSA."


"However," Webster continued, "MSSA will continue to lobby for parity for prize money for females."


The WE Championships remains the sole international Esports event where athletes compete by representing their countries. Bali was awarded hosting rights in September 2021 and was handed over the hosting duties during a special ceremony following the 2021 WE Championships Finals in Eilat, Israel, which united the World Esports Family for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The total prize money and distribution thereof, is as follows:

PC GAME TITLES: 

Counter-Strike: GO (CSGO)             1st - $50,000 // 2nd - $30,000 // 3rd $20,000 

DOTA 2                                         1st - $50,000 // 2nd - $30,000 // 3rd $20,000 

MOBILE GAME TITLES: 

MOBILE LEGENDS Bang Bang        1st - $50,000 // 2nd - $30,000 // 3rd $20,000 

PUBG MOBILE                                  1st - $50,000 // 2nd - $30,000 // 3rd $20,000 

SINGLE GAME TITLES: 

eFOOTBALL                                      1st- $12,000 //   2nd - $8,000   // 3rd - $5,000

TEKKEN                                      1st - $12,000 //   2nd - $8,000   // 3rd - $5,000

CSGO FEMALE                     1st - $20,000  // 2nd - $15,000 // 3rd - $10,000 // 4th - $5,000

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Monday, 29 August 2022

MSSA selects its SA Student team to journey to Russia

Johan van Breda will be managing South Africa's Student Esports Team.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) has accepted an invite from the Russian Esports Federation to enter its SA Student DotA and Counter-Strike: GO teams into a four way test match to be played in the Yota Arena, Moscow Russia from 15 to 17 September 2022.

There will be a total prize fund of 1,500,000 Rubles, which equates to ZAR422,927.33, per game title.

The prize fund is broken down as follows:

1st place ­– 800 000 rubles
2nd place – 400 000 rubles
3rd place – 200 000 rubles
4th place – 100 000 rubles

Since there are only four countries participating, the other four are, Russia, Serbia, and Kazakhstan, it means that all the teams are guaranteed of walking away with a healthy purse.

The trials for the team to journey to Moscow were held at MSSA's annual North West Online Championships. With students from six (6) institutions of higher learning fighting for a place in the team, the standard of play was of the highest standard.

As soon as the championship was over, MSSA swung into action and selected its National Student Esports teams for the Counter-Strike: GO and DotA titles.

The team selected is as follows:

Esports titleName of playerInstitution of higher learning
Counter-Strike: GO
Joshua ChapmanUniversity of Cape Town (UCT)
Simon ZandstraUniversity of Stellenbosch (MATIES)
Sebastian PelaezUniversity of Cape Town (UCT)
Robert ButlerUniversity of Cape Town (UCT)
Armand Pierre van der ColfUniversity of Pretoria (TUKS)
DotA
Christian UysUniversity of Stellenbosch (MATIES)
Lennard KoekemoerUniversity of Pretoria (TUKS)
Nathan BeckUniversity of Pretoria (TUKS)
Suhail KhanUniversity of Pretoria (TUKS)
Tameer ChicktaySWPS Uniwersytet

The team shall be managed by veteran Team Manager - Johan van Breda.

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Thursday, 25 August 2022

Fighting for a share of ZAR844,000.00.



While not every University, like Wits, NWU, Tuks, and Maties, have esports clubs properly affiliated to Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) a number of students are concerned that they miss out on the massive opportunity offered in respect of representing South Africa in Moscow against Russia, Serbia, and Kazakhstan.

To recap, there is prize money of 1,500,000 Rubles, which equates to ZAR422,927.33, per game title.

The prize fund is broken down as follows:

1st place ­– 800 000 Rubles

2nd place – 400 000 Rubles

3rd place – 200 000 Rubles

4th place – 100 000 Rubles

To ensure maximum participation, where a student is not a member of a tertiary institution club affiliated to MSSA, such Registered Player may play for his/her own club.

Should a player not be a Registered Player affiliated to a member club, and still want to try to be selected at MSSA's North West Online Esports Championships to be held on 27 August 2022, all such athlete need do is:

It is incredibly easy to constitute a club and to affiliate.

MSSA shall assist every applicant every part of the way, but time is of the essence, and all such applications must be submitted by 17H00 on Friday, 25 August 2022.

Additional reading:

  • 2022 Calendar of Events
  • Affiliation: Private Clubs
  • Affiliation - School
  • Notices: Student DOTA and CSGO teams off to Moscow, Russia with1,500,000 Rubles at stake.
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