A huge congratulations to Craig Nicholson who has become the first Microsoft MVP for Xbox in Africa.
As many of the people in the gaming community know, Craig has always been around doing his best to help out anyone with a problem and really pushing the Xbox cause in South Africa.
Becoming an Xbox MVP is no small feat and it takes a lot of dedication and a third party nomination before even being considered. Very few people are ever chosen.
Hopefully this will also go a way to helping us get recognised as a true Xbox 360 territory with all the benefits that come with that.
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Last Updated: January 3, 2008
doobiwan
January 3, 2008 at 15:46
Awesome! Well done dude that’s fantastic!
Now sort out Live! damn it. 😉
Burns ZA
January 3, 2008 at 16:17
Yeah well done Craig!
Can someone go into some more detail as to how this happened? What exactly does CraigN do? Etc.
doobiwan
January 3, 2008 at 16:27
An MVP award is a peer award given by Microsoft to those who excel in a particular field, whether it be technically, from a community building standpoint or whatever. Typically it’s bestowed on specialists in a particular field, like Windows development, SQL server, ASP.NET, C# etc etc.
There’s no “way of earning it”, you have to be nominated by another MVP, then the panel decides whether you should be recognised.
Craig Nicholson
January 3, 2008 at 16:49
@doobiwan: Thanks. You’ll be surprised how many people have asked me about Xbox LIVE for South Africa in the last few days. 😛
@Burns ZA: Thanks. What do I do? Eish, now that would be telling. 😉
LazySAGamer
January 3, 2008 at 17:06
Well done Craig…. now about this Live thing.. (oh has someone mentioned that already?)
j4nr1k
January 3, 2008 at 17:57
Congrats mate.
ManesanZA
January 4, 2008 at 12:39
Nice one Craig, well done
ODLANER69
January 4, 2008 at 22:37
Well done , I think its hight time that someone in SA is recogised anyway …What about XBOX LIVE??
That should be nr 1 on the priority list ,…please!!
ODLANER69
January 4, 2008 at 22:39
Craig you said a lot of people asked you about Live ….you need to bring it under their attention we need someone like you to talk to these guys to realise we need Support / server / live acces at a SA price …Please help us out.
Thanks
Renaldo
Frank
March 21, 2008 at 20:14
craig i would just like to say gongrats and please try to sort this xbox live problem out as soon as possible
Peench
October 9, 2008 at 18:53
I had the honor of meeting Craig at the MVP Summit in April of 2008. He’s a great guy and a great addition to the MVP program! 🙂