Results of 6th Online Inter-schools Championships

On 20 February 2016 MSSA held its 6th Annual Online Schools Championships.

The championships involved schools from seven provinces, and many of the top private and public schools were represented.

Every year more-and more schools affiliate to MSSA, and many predict that within the next five years, the school online league shall involve more schools than any other sport.

Players were able to participate in CounterStrike: GO, DotA 2, FIFA ’16, HearthStone, League of Legends, StarCraft II, and Tekken Tag Tournament II.

The Online Schools Championships is the breeding ground for the National Protea Teams, and the schools championships allows players to qualify for the coveted National Team Trials which are to be held on 4 June 2016.

MSSA believes that the winning teams and players will go on to rattle the cages off the older teams, and thus provide the competition needed for South African gaming to improve upon its current standards.

The results of the championships are:

Game title	pos.	Team name	Name of school
CounterStrike: GO	1	RBHS CSGO A	Rondebosch Boys
	2	flikadawisT	D F Malan
	3	PR0NHS	Northcliff High School
DotA 2	1	Maritzburg College A	Maritzburg College
	2	PC DOTA	Parklands College
	3	Mr Project	Oakhill
FIFA'16	1	Gareth van Straten (men)	HTS Witbank
	2	Gomo Ndlozi (men)	HTS Witbank
	3	Tristan Fisher (men)	HTS Witbank
	1	Sune van der Merwe (women)	HTS Witbank
HearthStone	1	Kelvin Yang	Northcliff High School
	2	Richard Visser	St Conrad's
	3	Kevin Plint	Northcliff High School
League of Legends	1	Sasolburg	Sasolburg High School
	2	SSES LOL	St Stithians
	3	PR0NHS	Northcliff High School
StarCraft II	1	Robert Storey	Bishops
	2	Darren Clark	Northcliff High School
	3	Matthew Rundle	Northcliff High School
Tekken Tag Tournament II	1	Justin Brown (men)	Northcliff High School
	2	Connor Chaplin	Northcliff High School
	3	Sean Menlo	Northcliff High School
	1	Nadine Swart (women)	HTS Witbank
	2	Sune van der Merwe	HTS Witbank

Photo's can be found  on: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154543713314008.1073741936.146018324007&type=3

Ghana beats South Africa in FIFA'16

Joline Bico, Kyle Turnbull and Bonge Zwane

On Saturday, 6 February 2016, South Africa took on Ghana at FIFA '16 at Hullabaloo, 72 Steenkamp Road, Witbank in an official IeSF accredited test match.

The South African team was considerably younger than their Ghanaian counterparts which falls in line with Mind Sports South Africa's policy of developing teams for international competition. Part of MSSA's development programme includes the inclusion of females into the national team in order to eradicate gender bias.

First up was Joline Bico, the only female currently serving in a national team for the FIFA '16 title. Joline fought fiercely against her opponent, never giving her opponent any chances. However, the Ghanaian proved tto strong for her and Joline finally lost both her games after a long struggle.

Bonge Zwane proved to be the unluckiest of the three South Africans. Bonge had more shots on goal than his opponent, had a far stronger attack than his opponent, but failed to capitalise on his strengths. Bonge too lost both his games.

Even the current South African champion, Kyle Turnbull, found that the matches were harder than he suspected. His opponents were shocked at just how good Kyle is. However, Kyle lost his first match, but quickly bounced back to win his second game.

Thus the South African team (all from Witbank) may have lost against Ghana, but as Kwezi Hayford of Ghana eSports Association stated, “ We did not think that the South Africans would be so strong. Already our players are talking about a rematch”.

Thus the SA team may not have had the results that they wanted, but they garnished the respect and friendship of their opponents.

Test Match between Ghana and South Africa

Team eSports Ghana (top) versus Team eSports South Africa (bottom)

On 6 February 2016 at 18H00, the South African Protea eSports  Team for FIFA '16 will take to the field against Ghana.

The match will be played online with  the Ghanaian team playing from Accra and the South African team from Witbank in Mpumulanga.

The venue for the South African team is:

Street address: Hullabaloo, Steenkamp Street, Del Judor, Witbank. (www.hullabaloo-tlf.co.za)
Telephone number: 072 582 4441 / 013 692 3757

The test match is  already receiving a great deal of interest amongst the gaming  communities in both country.

Although  there is a great deal of belief that  the South Africans  will win the Test Matches, the South African team is not taking  the  test match lightly. South Africa has already positioned itself to be in the forefront of gaming  in this title in Africa, so  there is  much to lose.

The Ghanaians  have a  reputation of being fierce competitors instilled with national pride, and as such have no intention of allowing South Africa to win.

The  teams are:
                           

Ghana	vs	South Africa
Frank Adotey Kpakpo		Kyle Turnbull
Yaw Boakye		Jolene Bico
Osbert Aidoo		Bonga Zwane