Freedom of association.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) received the following question:

"Is it possible for a team within an unaffilated MGO to affiliate with MSSA and not the whole MGO?"

If a team is a member of a MGO (Multi Gaming Organisation), and such MGO does not want to affiliate, but the team within such MGO wishes to play in MSSA events in order to take advantage of MSSA events and to hopefully be selected for the South African Protea Esports Team.
Any team may affiliate itself to MSSA as a private club. A club only needs at least three individual members in order to constitute itself as a club, as, according to South African law, multiplicity of membership is required.

The biggest stumbling block, for some, may be that their current MGO has a contract in place which specifically prohibits the person from representing another club. All gamers should be aware that the South African Constitution (Chapter 2, section 18) enshrines the individual's right to freedom of association. This extends to esports as much as it does to anything else. Thus, such contracts, may very well be illegal as such contracts may very well be in conflict with the rights afforded to an individual by South Africa's Constitution. Should any athlete have any questions in this regard, please contact mindsportscorrespondence@gmail.com  

Also read:

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Latest MSSA rankings for League of Legends

The Tuks first team at MSSA's 2015 S A National Championships

Not surprisingly the Tuks University team, which produced most of the players that were in the 2015 Protea Team, dominates the rankings.

The  team is 'head and shoulders' above all the other teams.

However, again, it is pleasant to see so many school teams. The school teams are the future of gaming in South Africa.

It is not hard to believe that the Fairmont and Sasolburg High school  teams will soon be giving Tuks a run for their money.

The latest rankings are:

Pos	Name of Player	year	Club	Points
1	First team	16	Tuks	372.2
2	Stonze	14	Fairmont High School	190
3	Team Vapor	16	Sasolburg High	180
4	Gryphons	16	KMSC	173.4
5	Senior Team	14	St Conrads	150
6	Knights	15	KMSC	150
7	White Rabbit Gaming	16	WRG	148
8	St Conrads	16	St Conrads	145
9	Plasticdivision1	14	Fairmont High School	125
10	Silver and Friends	16	WOERIES	124.5
11	STS 1	16	St Stithians	105
12	Pride	16	Parktown Boys	105
13	Tygers in the Jungle	14	HTS Witbank	100
14	PR0NHS	15	Northcliff High	100
15	lofdal	16	Lofdal	100
16	CCS Shadow Hunters	16	Crawford Sandton	97.5
17	Junior Team	14	St Conrads	80
18	Second team	15	Tuks	80
19	Winorfeed	14	Fairmont High School	75
20	Fairmont	15	Fairmont High School	75
21	BISH	16	BISH	75

Results: MSSA's MWEB 2014 Gauteng LAN Championships - 29 & 30 March 2014

Sent out by the MSSA:

The MSSA was faced with doing a venue change just three weeks before the event due to certain connectivity problems being experienced by the host club. Anyone who has ever organised a LAN will know the problems that having to change a venue at short notice pose to the organisers and more importantly the participants. However, the membership rallied, and a new venue was found in the form of HTS Tuine in Pretoria. Special thanks must be extended to the school for accommodating the event, and to all those individuals that made it happen. The school proved itself by having all the requirements to host a successful championships, and thus, the championships were held without a hitch on 29 & 30 March 2014.

The support given by MWEB again proved to be invaluable to the MSSA, and as a result of such support members were able to enjoy the benefits of participating in an official LAN championship. It is through the official championships that gamers are able to qualify for colours and for national team trials. In other words, the official championships form part of a year year  long qualification process for gamers to  prove their worth in order to be selected to finally, and officially, represent South Africa in international competition.

Nine member clubs from three provinces contested the championships. However, there was not the turnout in female gamers as experienced in North West, but it was pleasing to see the number of mixed female and male teams in the team events. Certainly, compared to 2013, there was a greater number of female participation at the Gauteng championships. Obviously the emphasis that the MSSA is putting on the development of females in gaming is starting to bear fruit. It is hoped that the 2015 championships will see even more female gamers especially now that the MSSA makes provision (in accordance with IeSF rules) to hold competitions in all titles for both female and male teams and/or players.

The championships saw the newly formed Tuks Mind sports Club take the lion's share of the medals, but also saw the Mpumalanga based All Stars Gaming Club assert its dominance in the CounterStrike GO and OSU titles.

The winners of the different titles are:

BOARD GAMES

Checkers

Male – Premier
Pos	Team	Club
1	Lubabalo Kondlo	Dr Niederhoffer Memorial Club

Morabaraba

Male – Premier
Pos	Team	Club
1	Morne Snyman	Tuks Mind sports Club

eSPORTS

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Male – Premier (PC)
Pos	Team	Club
1	Team Pink	Tuks Mind Sports Club

Male – Premier (PS3)
Pos	Team	Club
1	PR0NHS	Northcliff High School

Male – High Schools
Pos	Team	Club
1	Woeries	Verwoerd High School

CounterStrike GO

Male – Premier
Pos	Name	Club
1	Delta 5 Gaming	All Stars

FIFA '14

Male – Premier
Pos	Name	Club
1	Corbin Duvenhage	Northcliff High School

League of legends

Male – Premier
Pos	Team	Club
1	Senior Team	Tuks Mind Sports Club

OSU

Female – Premier				Male – Premier
Pos	Team	Club		Pos	Team	Club
1	Lucille Brown	HGH		1	Thomas Brown	All Stars

StarCraft 2

Male – Premier
Pos	Team	Club
1	Pieter Piek	VnR

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Male – Premier
Pos	Name	Club
Tie 1	Ruan van Staden	Tuks Mind Sports Club
Tie 1	Brandon van Rensburg	Northcliff High School
Tie 1	William Rawlings	Northcliff High School

Male – High Schools
Pos	Team	Club
1	Bevan Stukise	Northcliff High School

FIGURE GAMES

Ancients

Male – Premier
Pos	Team	Club
1	Garth Schoeman	Knights Mind Sports Club

In total, 23 gamers earned the right to wear Provincial Colours. A further 11 students were awarded Student provincial Colours and 10 learners were awarded High School Provincial Colours. All those that were awarded the various Provincial Colours were immediately given both their certificates and a high quality 195gsm golf shirt to indicate that they had received such colours.

It should also be noted that Lucille Brown was awarded Provincial Colours for OSU. Lucille is the first female to earn provincial colours for the title, and it seems as though she will be most competitive in the game.

The MWEB championships too saw a total of 73 gamers qualify for National Team Trials. With so many gamers qualifying for trials, there is no doubt that the MSSA will have sufficient teams in order to select teams to represent South Africa.

Photographs can be found on https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152714719854008.1073741875.146018324007&type=3

Upcoming events:

12 & 13 April 2014 - Gauteng Schools Championships for Board gaming and Figure gaming
19 April 2014 - MWEB Online Dota 2 Championships
24 & 25 May 2014 - MWEB Mpumulanga Championships