In a slightly surprising announcement, Bravado Gaming has revealed that they will not be participating in the 2017 Telkom DGL Masters. While the Telkom DGL Masters offers South Africa’s largest cash prize pool, Bravado have decided to focus their attention internationally after a successful 2016 in terms of the number of international visits. Bravado will rather be making use of…
Telkom Digital Gaming League (DGL) | DotA2 Masters Preview 23 January – 26 March 2017 | Leg 1 The Telkom Digital Gaming League (DGL) DotA2 Masters 2017 season officially gets underway this week. The DGL Masters DotA2 Leg 1 commences on Monday the 23rd of January and ends of the 26th of March 2017. The invite only league has been expanded from 8 to…
Telkom Digital Gaming League (DGL) | DotA2 Emerald Genesis Proving Grounds 17 January 2017 | Round 2 Results The Second Round of the DotA2 Emerald Genesis Proving Grounds played out last night and saw 8 teams eliminated from the tournament. Tonight Round 3 will commence, but all the teams playing have already progressed through to the Emerald Showdown held from the 30th of January 2017. If you want…
Telkom Digital Gaming League (DGL) | DotA2 Emerald Genesis Proving Grounds 16 January 2017 | Round 1 Results The First Round of the DotA2 Emerald Genesis Proving Grounds played out last night and saw 10 teams eliminated from the tournament. Tonight Round 2 will commence, with the winning teams securing their spots in the Top 8. If you want to see the entire tournament…
Telkom Digital Gaming League (DGL) | DotA2 Emerald Genesis Qualifier 16 – 22 January 2017 | Emerald Genesis Proving Grounds Qualifier At the beginning of 2017 Telkom announced massive changes to the South African esports scene in the form of their new qualifiers structure. These series of convoluted tournaments massively impact which teams will be attending DGL Masters Cups (of which there are two)…
The final week of scheduled matches for Prem Div. Leg 4 (and the Telkom DGL 2016 calendar league year in general) in the 2016 Telkom DGL – DotA2 League were concluded on Sunday the 4th of September. The DGL DotA2 League continues to grow, with a staggering 220 active DotA2 teams currently registered and competing. While the majority of these teams compete in the Ladder, the…
You might have missed it on your news feed recently, but Ballistix Masters is currently hosting a DotA2 online tournament that boasts a casual R20 000 prize pool. If you’re wondering why you might have never heard about the Ballistix Masters tournaments before, it’s because you probably knew them when they were still called the Crucial Cup back in 2015. The rebranded…
So it’s the weekend of EGE and, well, a few other things too. But EGE mainly. If you’re looking to sign up for EGE events you can find all the links right here. Meanwhile, this is what happened around the local internet about local gaming while you weren’t (possibly) looking: Zombiegamer: SA eSports | Scheduled Matches 25-31 July 2016 Zombiegamer: UPDATE |…
This week, we’re a little behind schedule, but we’re still going to bring you the local news because that’s what we do. We would like to take a moment to honour a local eSports fallen hero. Liam ‘Pontofalax’ Lehle (a Dota 2 player for Damage Control) passed away earlier this week due to liver failure. Our thoughts go out to his family and…
Each week we gather together the DotA 2 results from various pro matches from around the local RSA competitive scene. DGL Masters Carbon eSports 2 vs 0 Damage Control Bravado Gaming 2 vs 0 Flipsid3 Tactics No surprises here as the top team in Masters faces off against the new F3 Tactics squad rotated in from Premier Division, who are easily defeated. While a predictable outcome, F3 will…