On 16 and 17 March 2019, GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World played host to a slightly different version of the third Afresports event, while MWEB joined as sponsors for the third time in a row. This year saw the UCON event by the UCT Genshiken Society join us to offer a wider variety of geek culture elements alongside our more casual tournament experiences. Over the course of…
On 16 and 17 March 2017, ACGL, Zombiegamer and the Genshiken Society of UCT will bring gaming and geek culture to GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World in Cape Town. Afresports | UCON sees ACGL’s Afresports standalone event and the Genshiken Society’s UCON event join forces. The gaming will feature tournaments, casual competition and random giveaways while geek culture will be…
Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of gaming and geek expos happening around the country. However, the smaller events which set up the current status quo have begun to struggle with some stalwarts all but gone. So to ensure your favorite expo or event doesn’t become a footnote in the future, make sure…
This past weekend saw us hosting the second edition of Afresports at the GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World in Cape Town. The big focus of the event was the Fortnite Festival which brought the first custom lobby experience to Africa. As the dust settled on the weekend, there were the usual winners and losers across all titles, but we hope that for all attendees…
This coming weekend at Afresports at GrandWest in Cape Town, we will be hosting Tekken 7 and Dota 2 (1v1) tournaments with cash prizes up for grabs. There will be a standalone tournament for each title per day, with R1,200 in cash up for grabs per tournament. Entry will cost R50 per player per day. Each tournament will have a 32-player entry…
We are pretty excited to announce our Fortnite Festival at Afresports, and in doing so, we reveal that it will be the first custom lobby event for the title in Africa. On 1 and 2 September 2018 at GrandWest in Cape Town, 64 PlayStation 4 competitors and 64 PC competitors will compete at once on their chosen platform for their share…
Registrations for the Football Championship (played on FIFA 18) and Call of Duty: WWII at AfrEsports September are now live. This time around we will be hosting both 1v1 (FIFA) and free-for-all (COD), as well as 2v2 tournaments. Securing your ‘Early Bird’ (online) pass before 28 August for the main tournaments will see you paying less than at the door. We will be…
We are pleased to announce the details of event two in our AfrEsports series. This follows on the first event we hosted in February at Sun Exhibits in GrandWest. As with the first event, we will be bringing a variety of tournaments to life over the first weekend of September with cash and products up for grabs. Attendees can also expect to…
The second season of ACGL tournaments came to an end at Electronics & Gaming Expo (EGE), around two weeks ago. We now look forward to Season 3 which is changing up the formula and refining the overall ACGL experience. Season 3 (August – 31 October) In Season 3, we have some exciting new additions which will see the community pages rebuffed and the…
Get yourself a little acquainted with what’s been happening around the local gaming scene once a week with our wrap. It’s tasty. It’s nutritious. It’s wholesome. It’s… we’re running out of superlatives and opening paragraph ideas as we close in on edition 250 of our weekly love-letter to the local scene. But let’s kick you to other local news you…