Reminder: Elections for a new Athletes' Representative

 

Amanda Pakade (left) was MSSA's first Athletes' Representative, and Amoné Bekker (right) was MSSA's most recent.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) was way ahead of the curve when it created its Athletes' Representative position to sit on the Board way back in 2005.

The person who holds this position has to represent the aims, wishes, and desires of the gamers in order to ensure that the players are not overlooked in the decision-making process. Such Player Representative, must therefore owe greater loyalty to the players than to any club affiliation.

Those who have held, and excelled in such office are:

• Amoné Bekker (Valhalla)
• Jason Batzofin (Old Edwardian Mind Sports Club)
• Jonathan Newman (Maritzburg Griffins)
• Amanda Pakade (nee Kwaza) (University of Johannesburg)

Amanda went on to become MSSA President, and Jason Batzofin, went on to become Chairperson of International Esports Federation's Players' Committee.

The position can thus be seen as a stepping stone to greater things.

It is the athletes that participate in MSSA's 2020 SA National Championships that elect the representative. 

The criteria to stand for the position of Athletes' Representative are:

• The Player's Representative shall have Protea Colours, and
• The Player's Representative shall have represented South Africa in an International Competition, and
• The Player's Representative shall not be over 30 years of age at the time of such election.

MSSA therefore requests all those interested in standing for such position to please submit a nomination to mindsportscorrespondence@gmail.com by 8H00 on 5 December 2020.

Also read:

• MSSA elections allow change and growth.
• MSSA remains a dynamic institution.
• Preventing dominance by any one club.
• Advantages of affiliation
• Calendar of  Events: 2020
• Upcoming events: South African National Board Games Championships - 12 December 2020.
• Upcoming events: South African National Online Championships
• Upcoming events: South African National Wargames Championships - 5 & 6 December 2020.
• Affiliation: Schools
• Affiliation: Private clubs
• Esports titles selected: MSSA's School Championships.
• Esports titles selected: MSSA's Premier Championships.
• Results of MSSA's 10th Annual Online Championships for High Schools
• Results of MSSA's Western Cape Online Provincial Championships.
• Results: MSSA's 11th Provincial Online Championships
• Results: Gauteng Online Provincial Championships.
• Test Match results: South African Protea DotA 2 team rises triumphant.
• Test Match results: DOTA2: South Africa vs Azerbaijan
• New National Team Selection Criteria
• Selecting the national Protea teams for Mind Sports South Africa.

Agenda for MSSA's 33rd National Convention

Mind Sports South Africa's National Convention which is its Annual General Meeting is always held immediately after the end of play of the South African National Championships and at the same venue.

The way  in which  the National convention is run is clearly spelt out in MSSA's Constitution, which reads as follows:

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL: All National Conventions and Special General Meetings shall be open to all affiliated members. The National Convention, of which twenty-one days notice in writing shall have been given by the General Secretary to all affiliated members, shall be held during the month of December, at which the following business shall be transacted:

1. To confirm the minutes of the previous National Convention.
2. To receive and adopt the Annual Report of the Executive Committee.
3. To receive and adopt the Reports of the Sub-­committees.
4. To receive the National and Provincial Tournaments Management reports.
5. To consider and deal with any notices of motion to amend the Constitution.
6. To consider and deal with any notices of motion to amend the Regulations.
7. To elect the Executive Committee as per Rule 8.3 bearing in mind Rule 8.4 and Rule 8.5.
8. In the event of insufficient nominations being received, the Executive Committee may fill vacancies that may exist. However, once an individual has assumed a position, he may not stand for, or be elected to another position.
9. To consider applications for affiliation.
10. Approval of the Calendar of Events.
11. No business shall be discussed at a General Meeting that does not appear on the Notice for such meeting.