Red Bull recently announced that the South African qualifier for the Red Bull M.E.O, hosted by ESL, would take place at Comic Con Africa 2018. Comic Con Africa takes place from 14 – 16 September 2018, and also features tons of esports tournaments already. The winner of this Clash Royale qualifier earns a spot to Germany, where they’ll be competing…
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…
Hi5 are not strangers to these pages. They have featured not once, not twice, but three times before. Considering they’ve been around for the better part of 11 years, that is quite understandable. It’s also pretty obvious that in being around that long, the team will have featured in a number of firsts. At least in relationship with us and…
The prize pools for the VS Gaming Championships have been made public. This is for all teams participating in the VS Gaming Championships at Comic Con Africa between 14 – 16 September at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and International Convention Center. This is probably the most anticipated local esports event of the year, outside of the VS Gaming Masters…
This week we get acquainted with “brand spanking new” Ladon e-Sports. The MGO is around two months old but already seem more mature than many more established brands. We chatted with MGO co-owner Christiaan du Plooy to find out more about the birth of the organisation and their plans going forward. Hello. Introduce yourself to the readers. Go on. Hi, my…
As much as we want this to be a weekly conversation with various local clans, players and industry bodies, we find it takes only the dedicated to actually reply. And one such dedicated clan is Calyx Clan who may be pretty new to the local scene, embody a passion that some more established teams can learn from. So let’s all…
It took six matches over the course of a day to determine the champion in Mettlestate’s first Call of Duty tournament. Energy Esports stood tallest, going through the double elimination playoffs undefeated to secure the lion’s share of the cash prize pool. The Energy Esports team faced their old rivals Bravado Gaming in the grand final of the R50,000 ASTRO CoD Championship.
We are proud to be bringing another great tournament to the fighting game community. Today GameFinity and ACGL are happy to announce the Injustice 2 Legendary Series. The event, consisting of three stages, will host the best Injustice 2 fighters in Southern Africa who will compete for over R12 000 in cash! The Legendary Series will consist of three stages of competition; The…
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…