The Southern Barbarians began their E-Frag World Cup campaign last night taking on both Egypt and Libya in the preliminary stage of the competition. The group stage was divided into two groups, with South Africa being placed alongside Egypt and Libya. Never having faced any team before, the Southern Barbarians showed the rest of Africa that they are here to represent the continent. On the other side of the bracket Morocco topped things off drawing to Tunisia and defeating Algeria. Tonight the Southern Barbarians will take on Tunisia, second seed in Group A, for a spot in the Grand Finals which will decide who attends The World Cup.
The team now faces a single-elimination best-of-three bracket, which will be their toughest task yet. The team have never faced Tunisia, nor the other two hopefuls, but the team is arguably the strongest we have ever fielded, and last night’s results are testament to that statement.
The real Team South Africa?
On stream, on HLTV, and most forums, the Southern Barbarians have been referred to as Team South Africa. In the past we’ve all been subject to the storm which arrived when a team is referred to as Team South Africa without undergoing the “necessary” qualification process. We saw it with the original Southern Barbarians Battlefield 4 team, and again with Counter-Strike. In our hearts we know they’re Team South Africa, but legally we cannot call them that, yet.
The previous, official, Team South Africa took part in last year’s World Cup African Qualifiers. They subsequently got annihiliated – losing 16-6 (Libya), 16-1(Algeria), and 16-2 (Morocco). This was the team originally fielded by the MSSA, after a verbal showdown between members of the community and their representatives. None the less, this year a team of like-minded individuals led by Bravado Gaming owner Andreas Hadjipaschali took to the forefront of the selection process offering up the meanest team we could muster. Playing with roughly 140 ms ping is no easy task, but the Southern Barbarians played two effortless maps of CS:GO.
In our hearts we know that this is the real Team South Africa, a team worthy of representing our country and proof that a qualification process is not necessary, but rather a group of selectors (like in traditional sports) choosing the strongest players to form the team.
Tonight’s game begins at 18:00 CAT and will be live streamed once again to the E-Frag Azubu channel.
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Last Updated: August 5, 2016
Geoffrey Tim
August 5, 2016 at 13:07
NICE ONE, OKES.
Original Heretic
August 5, 2016 at 13:08
Doing us proud, lads!
Peet Luckhoff
August 5, 2016 at 13:08
Lekker Boys!
Admiral Chief - Check
August 5, 2016 at 13:08
Well done!
We are behind you 9000%
Geoffrey Tim
August 5, 2016 at 13:13
Maybe Someday Stupid Asses will select proper teams.
Admiral Chief - Check
August 5, 2016 at 13:25
Moerse Special Spelling Asian?
Spathi
August 5, 2016 at 13:15
Go team SA!
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
August 5, 2016 at 13:17
Lekker boytjies!
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
August 5, 2016 at 13:18
Oh so now they can use the flag, but they can’t be listed as South Africa?
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Aries
August 5, 2016 at 13:20
Well done
Aries
August 5, 2016 at 13:20
Mssa still wont admit that they causing this shit and holding us back
VampyreSquirrel
August 5, 2016 at 13:29
Nice one guys!
Original Heretic
August 5, 2016 at 13:30
This actually reinforces something on of my mates told me just earlier this week. He’s an avid WoW player and he says that whenever he gets asked where he’s from and he says “South Africa”, he gets a lot of respect.
Spy Master Tokashi
August 5, 2016 at 14:09
I hope MSSA just die and burn … screw them..
GO REAL TEAM SOUTH AFRICA!
HairyEwok
August 8, 2016 at 08:21
That Azubu channel was really horrible to watch the matches with. I have the line speed to watch streams at 720p no problem but it just buffers up every time and resets back to auto picture quality.