AFRICAN QUALIFIER SET TO START

The MWEB Team eSports South Africa has its work cut out for itself when the qualifier rounds for the spot to represent Africa at the 2015 World Championships for CounterStrike: GO begins on 10 August 2015.

Egypt, Morocco, Lybia, Algeria, Tunisia and South Africa are all located in the same group where they will play each other in a best-of-one format while after each team play five group stage matches only one will qualify for Global Finals in Belgrade, Serbia. Travel and accommodation costs are covered by E-FRAG.NET. 

Although the qualifying rounds for Africa begin on 10 August 2015, it is not until 13 August 2015 that South Africa will take to the field.

Thus South Africa will play all four of its matches on only two days!

Thus while some may argue that the MWEB Team eSports SA have an advantage in that they can see how the other four countries play, there is a great deal of concern in the South African camp apropos the effects of fatigue among the team members.

A full list of all five African nation's teams participating in the African Qualifier are:

Egypt	Lybia
Rami 'Dare_Dev1L' Rahman	Auos 'Frosty' Alojaly
Ahmad 'Ahmad' Khaled	Abdullah 'Josh4tw' Albarsha
Seif 'STK' Tarek	Ali 'Espio-Fed-' Sallak
Wael 'LogaN' Mahmoud	Abdullah 'dA-DvL' El Gallal
Amr 'GreWolf' Assem	Mohammed 'Crocodile' Farina
Rafeef 'Hunter' Natiq	Muhimen 'nONOLINHO' Battor
Ahmed 'AbuFasT' Mohamed	Abdelrahman 'MeryDith' Tarbah
Ehab 'Mickeykatze' Mohamed
Rami 'Dare_Dev1L' Rahman - (M)	Auos 'Frosty' Alojaly - (M)

Algeria	Tunis
Toafek 'Hydromeister' Hayder	Bahaeddine 'Attiaz' Attia
Walid 'ColdNess' Haddou	Mohamed 'torr' Hamdani
Nacim 'GGta' Khalfi	Alaeddine 'Potei' Chaari
Achraf Sami 'Nier' Serrai	Mehdi 'edge' Zouaghi
Racim 'MvRiK' Boumalit	Oussama 'Reina' Khediri
Anis Fawzi 'Blaq' Abdelaziz	Yessine 'Vins' Hammami
Bilal 'Atilla' Ghemari	Najd 'w33dh4x' Khemiri
Akram 'Saylar' Zeghimi	Hakim 'SHOGUN' Ben Tanfous
	Adel 'Remind' Guermassi
Chakib 'Cursed' Boudjakdji - (M)	Hatem 'SHEVA' Guermassi
	Oussama 'MTLC' Reguez
	Salim 'moNster' Mansouri
	Bahaeddine Attiaz Attiaz - (M)

Morocco	South Africa
Yolussef 'razoR' Bousetta	Johan 'Zaphire' Heymans
Nadir 'vespeR' Laroussi	Wilmar 'Invert' Krügel
Ali 'Alislak' Hibatallah	Cornel 'Random' Venter
Tarik 'SaAtaN' Naciri	Michael 'Swagrid' Boucher
Youssef 'cactu' Ait Amghar	Duncan 'Paratex' Smale
Mouhamed 'yoshy' Ouarid	Bastiaan 'MellowPanda' van Wamelen
Hakim 'haks' Tadlaoui	Jason 'Jay' Batzofin
Salah 'Salah' Moujeb	Thyle 'CyberTron' Nortje
Amine 'poggY' Benbada	Thomas 'Chippy' Brown
Oussama 'Almighty' Barazzouk
Salah 'Salah' Moujeb - (M)	Ryan 'Snowflake' Boyes - (M)

The schedule of games from August 10-14 is:

Algeria	vs.	Morocco	Aug 10	14:00 CEST	(BO1)
Morocco	vs.	Lybia	Aug 10	15:00 CEST	(BO1)
Lybia	vs.	Egypt	Aug 10	16:00 CEST	(BO1)

Tunisia	vs.	Algeria	Aug 11	14:00 CEST	(BO1)
Morocco	vs.	Tunisia	Aug 11	15:00 CEST	(BO1)
Egypt	vs.	Morocco	Aug 11	16:00 CEST	(BO1)

Lybia	vs.	Algeria	Aug 12	14:00 CEST	(BO1)
Tunisia	vs.	Lybia	Aug 12	15:00 CEST	(BO1)
Algeria	vs.	Egypt	Aug 12	16:00 CEST	(BO1)

Egypt	vs.	Tunisia	Aug 13	14:00 CEST	(BO1)
South Africa	vs.	Egypt	Aug 13	15:00 CEST	(BO1)
Tunisia	vs.	South Africa	Aug 13	16:00 CEST	(BO1)

South Africa	vs.	Morocco	Aug 14	14:00 CEST	(BO1)
Algeria	vs.	South Africa	Aug 14	15:00 CEST	(BO1)
South Africa	vs.	Lybia	Aug 14	16:00 CEST	(BO1)

Entire tournament will be streamed on multiple languages on Hitbox.tv including English on E-Frag TV so tune in on time to watch best African players in battle for Global Finals of $100,000 The World Championships 2015. In addition, all matches will show up on the right side of the E-FRAG.NET homepage with all information including starting lineups, maps, result, time and date.

CS:GO get to go!

bvd_russian and bvd_dimi preparing to play against SK Gaming at the 2008 African Continental Championships

Without doubt South African gamers are having better than ever before. This is largely due to the incredible partnership that exists between MWEB and the MSSA.

The MWEB sponsorship of the MSSA has freed up the MSSA to concentrate on delivery both in South Africa and on an international stage and to take advantage of the many opportunities that are being offered.

Under the MWEB sponsorship, the national Protea eSports team that has attended the IeSF World Championships has increased in size from only being four members in 2012 to being 10 members in 2014. The team is expected to grow to fourteen members in 2015.

Of course a lot of this has to do with the continued, and steadfast growth, of international gaming competitions which concentrate on national teams.

It is now well known that the Asian Olympic Committee has included eSports into its line-up, and it is a lessor known fact that TAFISA has included eSports into the Sport for All Games to be held in Jakarta in 2016.

This greater activity of national teams battling it out for national and international honours and prestige has meant that there are more and more championships that cater for official representative teams.

Practically all major competitive titles are benefiting from this surge in interest.

The CounterStrike: GO title is benefiting more than most.

The MSSA has already committed itself to participate in CSGO in the 7^th IeSF World Championships to be held in Lodz.

However, the MSSA is also committed to participating in the World Championships for CS:GO being hosted by E-Frag.net, together with hitbox.

U$100,000+ will be given out to the finest players of the world, each of them representing not themselves, but principally their mother country. Amongst other things, crowdfunding will be available and every contribution will be rewarded with official merchandise.

Apart from all the matches being broadcasted by E-FragTV live fwith guests from the CS:GO scene and community, broadcasts in foreign languages will be available as well on hitbox.

“As a successor of ESEC, we are bringing you The World Championships – a new tournament based on nations, that will have a huge impact on the Counter-Strike:Global Offensive scene worldwide. This is something the CSGO Community needs. It is going to be really exciting to watch some not so well known players and teams compete against the best players in the world for glory and a big prize.”
Petar Marković, CCO E-Frag.net

“Last years ESEC and the upcoming World Championships bring something unique to the CS:GO scene. A true nations based tournament, uniting some of the best players from around the globe. Extraordinary match-ups will be a regular occurrence, with line-ups you previously only were able to see in fantasy drafts. It goes without saying that we are enormously excited to see all this action live and exclusive on hitbox.”
Daniel Leberl, CCO hitbox

There will be qualification rounds for each continent – Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Oceania which will be held throughout the year . The sixteen very best nations will then be invited to attend The 2015 World Championship.

As is tradition, the players and managers of the 16 LAN qualified countries will be competing in Belgrade, this year in Sava Centar, during the 8th – 11th October, 2015. To eliminate further issues, all of the qualified nations‘ travel and accommodation costs will be covered by our fund. With the announcement, we are also calling out to people who are experienced in the field of eSports. We believe that every team shall have a proper manager and supervisor, who will, in cooperation with us, ensure the welfare of the team during the whole tournament.

The MSSA sees this championship as a vital step to further developing South Africa as a competitive eSports nation.

Of course, gamers need to follow the the usual path to selection, that is, the gamer must be a Registered Player and needs to qualify for Trials through an official MSSA championship.