How games are chosen for eSports

Maryke playing League of Legends at IeSF's 8th World Championships - Jakarta

Every year the MSSA holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM)directly after the South African National Championships. 

It is at such AGM that the games to be played in the eSports Discipline are selected by the member clubs.

eSports titles played at 2016 Provincial and National Championships.

Saturday	StarCraft II	Pro Evolution Soccer	League of Legends	HearthStone	Tekken Tag Tournament II	Ultimate Street Fighter V
Sunday	CounterStrike: GO	FIFA '16	Mortal Kombat X	DotA 2

eSports titles played at 2016 Online School Championships

StarCraft II

League of Legends

HearthStone

Tekken Tag Tournament II

CounterStrike: GO

FIFA '16

DotA 2

eSports titles played at 2016 School LAN Provincial and National Championships

Saturday	StarCraft II	League of Legends	HearthStone	Tekken Tag Tournament II
Sunday	CounterStrike: GO	FIFA '16	DotA 2

23 Countries enter League of Legends - IeSF's 8th World Championships - Jakarta

IeSF's e-Sports World Championship is the sole international e-Sports competition based on nationality.

The 8^th edition, bears  greater weight than ever  before since it is being held at the same time, and at  the same venue, as The Association for International Sport for All (TAFISA) World Games.

Of course Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) has delivered teams in the  past to TAFISA events, for example, Thailand in 1996 and to Lithuania in 2012.

Who could forget that the 1996 Chef d' Mission was in fact Danny Jordaan  of SAFA fame?

When perusing all the names of the players, the reader should be struck by  the fact that  only South Africa has once again dared to send a mixed team.

Maryke 'Ykie' Kennard, once  again is the sole rose among the thorns.

With Matthew Smith as Team eSports South Africa's captain, there is no doubt that the South African team will upset just a few at the world championships.

IeSF will be supporting each nation with 200,000 USD for athlete travel according to the performance level of each National Federation and quality of qualifying procedures that each of them took to select their national representatives.

No.	Country	Team Name	Player name	Nick name
1	Australia	Omega	Vincent Lin	gunkrab
			Luke Duske	clown syndrome
			Paris Sitzoukis	YAC SOULI
			Jonothan Cannon	eLy bluz0r
			Stewart Riesenweber	eLy Flick
2	Azerbaijan	Legendary Gaming	Faraj Nasirli	F0rtun3
			Huseyn Nasirli	Dragy
			Tofig Huseynov	Merlin
			Mikhail Strepetov	Egruocs
			Nurlan Madatov	Godfather
3	Belgium	Team Belgium	Aaron Serneels	berrywhite
			Sander Schuermans	imheat
			Lenny Uyterrhoeven	lenny
			Brent De Laet	sigma
			Robbe Dobbeleers	Anthrax
4	Brazil	Team Brazil	Bruno Garcia	CWG Kennedys
			Diego Jara	CWG Sephis
			Douglas Dos Santos	CWG Vampyrus
			Samuel Assis	CWG Huxy
			Diego Pinhe Robalinho De Queiroz	CWG DLC
5	China	Team China	Fan shi
			Junxuan Zhou
			Zhi Ke
			Haoshun Wu
			Xin He
6	Costa Rica	Team Costa Rica	Josué Rodríguez Monge	7Aster
			Stiven Cordero Murillo	Choisix
			Alonso Reyes Morales	Sandroxx
			Esteban Matamoros Valverde	EstebanMegaK
			Andres Nunez Campos	Bazu
7	Egypt	Frost Guards	Kotb Amr
			Hamed Ramy
			Abo Galala Ahmed
			El Sayed Khaled
			Abdel Hamid Karim
8	Indonesia	Team Indonesia	Ananda Rizky
			Adi Riansyah
			Zainal Hakim
			Gerry Arisena
			Muhammad Naufal
9	Italy	Nazionale Personal Gamer League of Legends	Nicola Paolucci	Gnaff0
			Giacomo Manconi	CounterG0d
			Valerio Cepale	Valex
			Luca Incorvaia	Crashhh
			Stefano Passini	PsychoPas
10	Korea (South)	Team Korea	Haram Kim	HARAM
			Hosung Ryu	Hoit
			Jeongmin Yoon	yongsu
			Chanju Lee	Lion
			Min Cho	Ming
11	Macau (China)	G4ES	Ka Kin Leong	Eric
			Meng Chong Kou	Alex
			Chak Hou Wai	Jonhson
			U Son Yau	NH
			Fernando Delmundo Gabriel	Na
12	Macedonia	EON	Viktor Kordanovski	The Fallen Angel
			Martin Ivanovski	Kuon
			Valjmir Fejzula	GoldenTo4st
			Jane Vasov	Gizmawks
			Hristijan Blazheski	asyrh shrimp
13	Malaysia	Orange Esports	Seong Yoong	Yoong
			Wein Lee	Lee
			Song Chin	Chin
			Jye Lim	Lim
			Jerrel Hoe Wong	Wong
14	Netherlands	Dorans Alpha	Henricus Van Roestel	Snitsky
			Jasper Hermsen	Djep0
			Job Goossens	Slyv3r
			Philip Teunissen	Erudite
			Rudolf Brus	Dirco
15	New Zealand	eBlacks	Cameron Russell	Crunch
			Kevin Wu	KayWu
			Adam Mason	liberty
			Adrian Desilvestro	Opaque
			Huu Pham	Bobo
16	Philippines	Acion Arena	Jayson Dela Victoria	Jayson
			Robert Rey Tan	Rey
			Jason Clark Galang	Jason
			Neil Harold Gabriel	Neil
			Mark Wendell Perante	Mark
17	Romania	Nexus	Octav Cretu	Ang
			George Savu	Speedy
			Andrei Popa	Orome
			Cosmin Danila	Chevalier
			Laurian Avrigeanu	Khantos
18	Russia	Albus NoX Sidus	Ivan Nikolaev	Hi im Ratxi
			Konstantin Shubin	LaKostya solotop
			Dmitry Korovushkin	Dimonk0
			Daniil Klimanov	Shalnoy Lo1
			Daniils Vlasov	apmzero
19	Serbia	Team Serbia	Dorde Lapcevic	Baxauer
			Gvozden Moljkovic	zdengvo
			Jovan Jovanović	Demented Clown
			Luka Todorovic	kaLuGG
			Pavle Kostic	Yoppa
20	South Africa	Team eSports South Africa	Matthew Smith	Feno
			Johan Uys	Harlem
			Taylor Rose	Elis
			Johan Van Breda	Joe
			Maryke Kennard	Ykie
21	Sweden	Wyvern e-Sports	Lars Gabrielsson	Ripqq Mcfreezt
			Frank Norqvis	Swag
			Elias Edlund	Kakan
			Steven Keay Kridiotis	wazzari
			Anton Sten	Heatz
22	Switzerland	Dead Pixels	Seyed Ali Nasserzadeh	Lagily
			Seyed Mahdi Nasserzadeh	Pride
			Steffen Sinkwitz	Talosin
			Marin Pudic	GoldenGod
			Joshua Lim	Wild Joshy
23	Tunisia	Armoured Brothers	Ayoub Chamakhi	MYI Azra
			Ali Gaaloul	Gaaloul
			Aymen jedallah	AlphaG Lokmays
			Oussama Bousselmi	osmo
			Haithem Attia	Armoured Dean

Better than the Olympic kit....

Approved kit for MSSA's 2016 Protea eSports Team

As MSSA's Vice-President James Evans stated, "It looks a lot better than the Olympic and Paralympic kit." 
Indeed it does!

MSSA, has finally approved the kit for the 2016 Protea eSports Team, and although  the embroidery has yet to be done, the kit does justice to  the selected team.

The South african eSports team is always well-turned-out at World Championships, and the team at IeSF's 8th World Championships will be no exception.

As a result of the South African team always being well-dressed, foreign TV is always willing to interview South Africa's eSports team.

Interviews of the SA team were done by Romanian, Russian, and Azerbaijanian TV giving the teams sponsors more bang for their 'buck'.

Maryke Kennard giving the Athlete's Oath to IeSF president, Mr Byung Hun Jun.

There's one more angel...

'Ykie' and 'Aphrodite'

Maryke 'Ykie' Kennard who achieved so much at the 2015 IeSF World Championship - Seoul as part of the MWEB Protea eSports Team has departed our shores for even sunnier climes.

Yes, indeed, Maryke has left South Africa in favour of Bahrain. 

Maryke was interviewed by Gamezone about the move.

In such interview, Maryke dealt with the topics of: 

• Her achievements
• 2015 IeSF World Championship - Seoul
• Shoutcasting at the 2015 IeSF World Championship - Seoul
• Affiliation to MSSA, and
• Her future.

Certainly MSSA, and all its members, wishes Maryke all the best. 

Maryke leaves a huge gap in South Africa, and only the very best will be  able to fill her shoes.

South Africa ranked 12th in the world for eSports

MWEB Protea eSports Team: (L to R): Taylor Rose, Cameron Tilley, Matthew Smith, Wynand Meiring, Maryke Kennard, Nathan Anderson, Vasudev Stringer

Without doubt MSSA's 2015 MWEB Protea eSports Team that attended the IeSF's 7^th World Championships has had one of the best overall results.

While the team failed to get out of the group stages, the team showed solid growth in that the team has picked up more victories than any other team that has gone before.

The League of Legends team scored an impressive victory over Iran, but just lost to Thailand in what many consider to be one of the best matches of the championship. There is no doubt that the team played its heart out, and, at the end of the group stages, was utterly exhausted.

The members of the League of Legends team are:

South Africa (MSSA)

Maryke 'Ykie' Kennard

Taylor 'elis' Rose

Matthew 'Feno' Smith

Vasudev 'Paga' Stringer

Cameron 'SexyB' Tilley

In StarCraft, Nathan 'StatiC' Anderson won a match, and lost out to Joona 'Serral' Sotala in an exciting test match. Serral went on to win the World championships.

In HearthStone, Wynand 'ViViD' Meiring picked up two impressive victories. Unfortunately the victories were not enough to get Wynand out of the group stages.

However, all the victories that the MWEB Protea eSports Team obtained were enough to help South Africa claw its way up from 13^th place (2014) back into 12^th place overall.

Thus, what with the victories obtained, the impressive amount of media coverage received both in South Africa and abroad, and the final ranking of the team in 12^th place, the team has much to feel satisfied about.

Rank	Country	Name	Point
1	SRB	Serbia	147
2	KOR	Korea	132
3	CHN	China	113
4	FIN	Finland	111
5	THA	Thailand	67
6	PHL	Philippines	63
6	ROU	Romania	63
8	TPE	Chinese Taipei	48
9	CHE	Switzerland	43
9	RUS	Russia	43
11	ISR	Israel	38
12	ZAF	South Africa	33
13	SWE	Sweden	32
14	AZE	Azerbaijan	22
14	BEL	Belgium	22
14	GEO	Georgia	22
14	IDN	Indonesia	22
14	MNG	Mongolia	22
14	TUN	Tunisia	22
20	AUS	Australia	11
20	AUT	Austria	11
20	IRN	Iran	11
20	VNM	Vietnam	11

Photographs of the event may be found on: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154291404924008.1073741930.146018324007&type=3