Showing posts with label protect. Show all posts
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Friday, 16 September 2022

How MSSA treats prize-money.

At all times MSSA attempts to protect athletes.

Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) is nothing but fair. Being an association for its members, run by its members, and catering to the needs of its members, MSSA;s Rules and Regulations take into account the best possible outcomes.

Since, in international competition, prize money always comes into play, MSSA is cognizant of the efforts of its team members in fighting for the honour of the country and inwinning such prize money.

Thus, even though the prize money in international events is paid to the national federation, MSSA remits 80% of such prize money to the team members who were responsible in winning such.

The remaining 20% MSSA holds for development purposes. The members of the team responsible for winning such prize monies then decide on the development programme into which the 20% is paid. Such team members have full access to the accounts to ensure that such monies are spent wisely and in accordance with their wishes/

There too are many forms of development ranging from grass root programmes all the way up to elite.

Obviously, even though it is at the wishes of the players, MSSA always hopes that such funding is channelled into grass-root programmes in order to continue to grow the sport.

However, where members of a MSSA team are also members of a professional team, the payment of such winnings will be dependant on the contract between the professional team and the player. In some cases, professional teams are entitled to all earnings from participation, and in such cases, it is the athletes duty and responsibility to remit his/her share to the professional team.

In conclusion, all of MSSA's Student Team Esports South Africa shall earn 60% of the prize money to which they are entitled.

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Monday, 17 April 2017

Stamping out abuse in gaming.

Abuse must be stamped out of gaming to protect the player.
Recently it was brought to my attention that a gamer came under criticism for questioning the abuse by gamers on the basis of gender, race, and sexual orientation.

A 'so-called' prominent member of the CounterStrike: GO community, in my opinion, seemed to defended the actions wherein he claimed that sporting codes do not care about the lower leagues, and that in esports such behaviour is acceptable in most of the privately owned events.

For a start, every sporting code is absolutely concerned about abuse at every level - especially at the lower leagues where athletes develop within the culture of the sporting code.

Thus IeSF and its affiliates, like MSSA, also differ from the privately owned events that allow such abuse.

IeSF and its affiliates stand for 'clean' sport where any form of bullying, harassment, and doping is not acceptable.

Should private events not clean up their acts and start taking action against such types of abuse, my prediction is that sponsors will leave the private events in favour of the 'clean' events.

The reason for such prediction is that according to the Safety at Sport and Recreation Act, sponsors may also be held liable for any harm.

Such abuse may be seen as harm, and the person responsible for such harm, the event owner, and the sponsor may, in terms of the Safety at Sport and Recreation Act all be held to be liable.

More importantly, such abuse, as described above, is of a criminal nature, and the offended party may well lodge a criminal charge against those involved.


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