Mettlestate are hosting a Counter-Strike event at the upcoming Cape Town 10s. However, before the two male and two female teams reach that point, there’s the matter of an online qualifying tournament. And registrations for that close on 11 January. Your time is running out teams. Online qualifying matches start on 14 January. The Cape Town 10s – “one of the world’s biggest and most…
Bravado Gaming‘s CS:GO team has taken a well-deserved second place at the recent Dreamhack Winter 2018. The tournament saw them face a number of well-known international teams including OpTic Gaming, G2 Esports and ENCE. Having won their first two (close-fought) matches on day one of the event, the Bravado team secured their spot in Sunday’s playoff rounds. Match one on Sunday was…
Energy Esports have become the fifth team to be invited to Power League Gaming’s Grand Slam tournament. The CS:GO tournament will feature a $100,000 prize pool and will be held at Abu Dhabi’s Du Forum. Energy Esports joins the four previously announced invited teams, with another three to be revealed. This will bring eight invitational (and international) teams to the event. Another eight teams will qualify…
ESWC Africa for CS:GO has (recently) been announced but it is only open to selected North African countries. Of course, the exclusion of South Africa has not gone down particularly well with some players in the community. Many have questioned why this exclusion occurred. Some have accused apparent missteps by Orena during the 2017 qualifiers as a reason. However, while Orena’s Luca Tucconi has officially admitted…
Come March 2019 a number of South African esports competitors will be in China competing for their share of $5.5 million in prize money. But before that, Mettlestate are hosting the qualifiers to determine who that will be. From today until Sunday (11 November 2018), registrations are open for the local qualifiers for Dota 2, CS:GO, Hearthstone and StarCraft II. On the…
Let’s dispense with the niceties and get right into it shall we? There’s still a little time left to pick up an Xbox One 1TB bundle for a discounted price. Details can be found here. Dota 2 teams also have very little time to get registered for the Mettlestate ASUS ROG Cup. Only today (7 June) until 12pm still in…
Counter-Strike, FIFA 18 and Fortnite all feature with over R150,000 in prizes up for grabs. The tournaments will be operated by Mettlestate and ACGL over the course of the 3-day event. VODACOM 4U FOOTBALL CUP The FIFA 18 tournament (operated by ACGL) features eight heats. The top four players per heat will return on Sunday to compete for the cash…
Another week, another South African Gaming News Wrap. We do it because we can and care. From today (31 May) at 2pm, you can catch a couple of local FIFA players strutting their stuff against the best in the world in the FIFA eWorld Cup Global Series Playoffs in Amsterdam. No, you don’t have to go to Holland to watch.…
If you’re into gaming and geek culture, then this coming weekend is the one for you. There is plenty on the horizon and it’s almost happening all over the country. Details can be found below, but let’s kick off with local articles you may have missed recently: Zombiegamer: Souzern Lions brings FACEIT to South Africa Zombiegamer: CS:GO Evetech Champions League and show…
Souzern Lions is the name of the FACEIT affiliated CounterStrike: Global Offensive pickup game service for the South African market. While this is not the first pickup service for CS:GO in the country (hello ESEA and Billosoft), it comes with arguably more prize incentives than the others. It also launches sans a true league system and is (according to an Esports…