For possibly the one person out there who doesn’t know yet I’ll be clear up front. I am not a fan of the MSSA (Mind Sports South Africa). I find them overbearing, annoying and an impediment to the improvement of eSports in South Africa.
Now don’t get me wrong, the idea of being able to receive national colours for gaming I think is a great thing. If they’d keep their fingers out the actual running of tournaments and simply give guidelines and award colours where they are deserved, we would be a good example to the rest of the world.
But no they insist of stupid rules, regulations and ideas that there really is no need for and this latest example has my blood boiling again. The following message was posted on Facebook in the local DOTA group
Yes your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Maryke really does say she wants 4 other females to join her to make a national side so they can go on free trips overseas. And hey you don’t even need to be good at the game because the MSSA wants to send females overseas so anything with boobs and a vagina will do.
I’m pretty sure looking good will help get the chaperoned overseas trips as well.
Now any national body worth their salt would have something to say about this and thankfully our MSSA has a very fanatic Facebook stalker in Colin Webster so it didn’t take long for him to join the conversation.
Colin Webster Again a lot of misstatements and factually incorrect comments made about the MSSA.
The MSSA is absolutely committed to promoting gamers in their quest for international recognition.
To qualify for the Nation Team Trials, you do need to play in a MSSA championship such as the one advertised on:http://esportscommentator.blogspot.com/…/2014-mweb…
I do like how he now directly refers to the anonymous eSports blogger as his go to website for facts. That’s amazing.
So no argument on just allowing 5 women to pretend to be DOTA players so they can get free holidays. No attempts at clearing the air and stating they won’t send people overseas who are clearly incapable of actually competing. Colin loves going on and on about how important they are and how they are part of SASCOC but even SASCOC doesn’t send people overseas if they are clearly not in the same league as the competitors.
But hey a free trip is a free trip is it not, who cares about making your country the laughing stock of the eSports world as long as they feed you and give you a free t-shirt.
Speaking of which, my friend over at the eSports blog thinks charging R300 for a cheap silk screened shirt is a rip off, I guess he missed the point where the price is only so high because we need that legal fund to defend ourselves from Mr Webster.
In conclusion, we don’t need the MSSA yet because the rest of the world isn’t in the position where national bodies exist for eSports. Leading the way is one thing but when we are being led away from the world into obscurity maybe we should rather give it a skip.
Last Updated: April 14, 2014
Lardus-Resident Perve
April 14, 2014 at 11:06
Nice header image (header of the week in my humble opinion). But that Faceboob post is disgusting…ummm Facebook
Hurrdurr
October 29, 2014 at 09:29
She makes actual female dota players look like a joke.
hairyknees
April 14, 2014 at 11:07
Wtf its 4pm already? 😛
Lardus-Resident Perve
April 14, 2014 at 11:09
It is Bonus Monday!
hairyknees
April 14, 2014 at 11:16
I feel like there is a hidden pun in there somewhere xD
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:20
That’s a 6X multiplier bonus too 😉
Alien Emperor Trevor
April 14, 2014 at 11:10
sigh
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:20
LE?!
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:22
You trying to say that the Emperor’s sighs are Limited Editions?
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:25
I was wondering if it’s a pink-hair levelled Sigh.
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:11
*puts eyeliner on and calls Tanya
Hammersteyn
April 14, 2014 at 11:12
Hahahaha
Sk3tz0
April 14, 2014 at 11:12
I’m Pulling a Mrs Doubtfire will dress up in drag for a free trip overseas 😛
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:13
With my street cred in the gaming community you don’t have a chance 😉
Sk3tz0
April 14, 2014 at 11:15
why u saying u look convincing in drag.. ?? Like John Leguizamo
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:16
If you’ve frequented this site you’d know me differently. But for my own safety I will not disclose the details.
HvR
April 14, 2014 at 12:52
Somebody can probably send you a video but it involved JJ, some eyeliner, a couple of handsome pirates, a boat and a good time.
Sk3tz0
April 14, 2014 at 13:27
Sounds like a Fun weekend on the Vaal Dam..
Hammersteyn
April 14, 2014 at 11:13
Maryke does it for the lulz.
*Takes selfie #Yolo
Hammersteyn
April 14, 2014 at 11:15
Too be honest. I’ve competed in two sports where provincial colours isn’t so much about the best players being pick than those who can afford the trip. So if you have the cash you get your colours. Plus it counts triple for National colours.
Jonah Cash
April 14, 2014 at 11:21
I have been in the same boat. And my dad was always juts like I don’t pay money for the school so you can be in the first team so enjoy the “Kaas and wyn” team…. Came to Tuks and played for a hostels first team and played Tuks Njalas and almost none of the okes in the first team ever played rugby again… Funny that
Tarisma
April 14, 2014 at 11:25
What sports are these? I’ve competed in provincial sports as well and if you couldn’t afford it tough shit no one would compete then.
Hammersteyn
April 14, 2014 at 11:43
Not gonna name them obviously. But take my word for it.
Tarisma
April 14, 2014 at 11:44
Retrospectively thinking about it, for team sports it kinda makes sense, no point stopping the whole team from going because one person is less fortunate.
Hammersteyn
April 14, 2014 at 11:46
LOL, yes it’s team sports
Rags
April 14, 2014 at 11:28
^This, I’d like to know where the money is coming from. That is where the problem is, not the MSSA.
Sk3tz0
April 14, 2014 at 11:17
I can Imagine my Parents laughing if i had to ask them to cough up cash for a trip to get provincial colors in Video Games … my 15yr old self be crying in a corner from the humiliation..
Alien Emperor Trevor
April 14, 2014 at 11:18
I especially like the part, “no matter how shit you are”. Way to look serious about taking part in competitive alternative sports 😛
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:20
” cheap silk screened shirt” WTF?! I want my money back! When are they going to arrive anyway? I am running out of shirts…
Gavin Mannion
April 14, 2014 at 11:32
I followed up on Friday.. they said they would get back to me.. and yet they didn’t. Will follow up again
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:34
Just teasing bro.
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:39
I think we should riot. Mostly just for the fun of it.
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:39
Throw the poo!
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:44
Only if I can wear plastic gloves and a full has-mat suit.
Alien Emperor Trevor
April 14, 2014 at 12:27
*haz-mat ROFL
Hammersteyn
April 14, 2014 at 11:23
At least their website is back up. Still looks kak though.
Tarisma
April 14, 2014 at 11:24
I still can’t understand why we need to have gender based gaming leagues. Surely there is nothing favoring males over females or vice verse in gaming?
Jonah Cash
April 14, 2014 at 11:24
They will probably say they were disadvantaged in the era where they only played with a stove….. 🙂
Rags
April 14, 2014 at 11:25
Because of white male privilege. #somegendersmoreequalthanothers
Mew
October 29, 2014 at 13:05
You sir, I like you.
Jonah Cash
April 14, 2014 at 11:24
Oh boy we must look like complete idiots oversea, send a SA team full of English players and then send woman who can’t play the game at all…. WTF???? Worst run organisation ever!!! Can we do a “Poo” award??? MSSA would win it hands down!!!
Lardus-Resident Perve
April 14, 2014 at 11:25
They would own such an award! And brag on their WIKI page about winning awards!
Jonah Cash
April 14, 2014 at 11:25
Landslide of Poo….. I can see it now!!! Hahaha
Rags
April 14, 2014 at 11:24
Who pays for the trip? MWEB? Where is your ROI? Why not sponsor Ph4ntom et al instead?
oVg Errorist
April 14, 2014 at 11:25
Can Brenda enter?
Admiral Chief in Space
April 14, 2014 at 11:28
Oh snap!
VampyreSquirrel
April 14, 2014 at 11:42
Well we’ve got Brenda, Tanya and Cleo so far
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:43
lol
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:43
Yea you do!
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:26
I really have to give it to the MSSA, they are consistent in how bloody incompetent they are.
Tarisma
April 14, 2014 at 11:28
Also just followed that link. Who the fuck wants an embroidered organisational golf shirt? Seriously how many people do you see walking around on the weekend/ at braai’s/ at bars/ at nightclubs/ at lans/ chilling at home wearing embroidered golf shirts?
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:29
Don’t be mean. There are several men in old age homes and coffins that wear embroidered shirts. 😉
Gavin Mannion
April 14, 2014 at 11:32
my Lazygamer work shirt is an embroidered golf shirt 🙁
Tarisma
April 14, 2014 at 11:32
So is my work shirt, but I don’t rock that badboy on the weekends
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:33
See. Work shirt.
:/
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:40
Cough* That was awkward
Jedi JJ
April 14, 2014 at 11:43
Wanted to say that, but figured Tarisma started it. I just like adding fuel. 🙂
Rince Striving Abomination
April 14, 2014 at 11:41
PS. I am actually wearing my LG Shirt right now, nice being in Comms, get to act like geeks and people think it’s normal…
Mossel
April 14, 2014 at 13:13
I’m an engineer, I can wear what I want because engineers don’t have fashion sense. I can even wear Jenakkies (jeans+tekkies).
Matthew Holliday
April 14, 2014 at 11:38
But theyr giving them out for free man, the MSSA are so gracious.
Tarisma
April 14, 2014 at 11:42
I can imagine what does through the receivers head. Oh cool a shirt, I guess I’ll wear this to the mandatory event then put it in my cupboard and subsequently forget about it till 2018 when I have collected enough old shit to justify a proper spring clean and I can toss it out/give it away to someone.
Matthew Holliday
April 14, 2014 at 11:49
or just a simple “oh wow…” and forget to pick it up from under your chair when you leave the venue.
Matthew Holliday
April 14, 2014 at 11:33
the Southern Barbarians battlefield team are wrecking face, you know, the team the MSSA didnt want to have participate and JoinDota talks about a dedicated African/South African tournament depending on local response.
Meanwhile, MSSA looks to send over the most incompetant team it can put together?
/logic.
Brendyn Zachary
April 14, 2014 at 13:31
Is joinDOTA really talking about an SA league? Man what I wouldn’t give to have Tobiwan casting a game live in SA
Matthew Holliday
April 14, 2014 at 14:24
the tournament theyr currently busy with has a section for south african teams, with a few participating, not sure on the details, hasnt been covered well, but there was news recently about something more official coming soon.
Doug
April 14, 2014 at 14:33
I need more information on this
Matthew Holliday
April 14, 2014 at 15:41
TBH, the coverage has been pitifull, only came upon this by accident a while back.
heres the thing thats currently or was running:
http://www.joindota.com/en/leagues/europe/9-season-1/group/611-south-africa-s-1
Cant find anything on the other thing that i mentioned, but it went along the lines of “we might host something, if we get enough response from you guys, we might make it a legit thing.”
Matthew Holliday
April 14, 2014 at 15:46
sorry, got it, theyr both the same things, we’re listed under Europe, this is talking about getting us our own section in the league and options to use the SA servers.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=558907010648&set=gm.615158725225408&type=1
Ultimo_Cleric N7
April 14, 2014 at 12:27
What a joke.
Colin, I hope you get to read these next words: YOU ARE KILLING OUR COUNTRY’S E-SPORTS.
That is all……
janseng
April 14, 2014 at 12:33
LOL, i must add Maryke Ykie Kennard is actually a league of legends player and quite good at it,
She is playing in the DGL Premier League and placed 5th in the summer Leg.
janseng
April 14, 2014 at 12:34
4th*
sachin
April 14, 2014 at 12:41
lotus greens square
Slangzn
April 14, 2014 at 12:59
Damn you Lazygamer! Im tired of hearing about these clowns but you have a pic of half naked babes and a story about…*blah, blah, blah* it doesnt matter, click… Doubt Maryka even knows how much damage a statement like that does to the image of Female gamers. Probably doesnt care, dumbass!
Mew
October 29, 2014 at 13:03
She doesn’t. She thinks Dota is a joke, that’s why she said that, except, she doesn’t even realise how much damage its doing to girl gamers as a whole.
FreddyBear
April 14, 2014 at 13:30
It’s interesting how that last article still refers to Mr. Webster as the president of the MSSA…
“Issued by:Colin Webster President
Mind Sports South Africa … etc”
Jackofall1987
April 14, 2014 at 14:53
Wow to be honest yes the MSA is a rather large joke but I think the author of this article is really taking a massive poke at the MSA at the expense of this poor girl (grounds for defamation case seem pretty decent here? What was implied with the chaperone comment?). Really what it boils down to is that SA Gamers cry for support to fly off to these events yet have the MSA and varying other people creating competitions and then don’t pitch but cry wolf at first chance they get. Both parties are in the wrong but Lazygamer WTF??????? And encouraging women to join eSports takes another blow by some chauvinist, proudly brought to you by Lazygamer….
Chip
April 14, 2014 at 16:30
Don’t be surprised.. Gavin likes to dabble in defamation every once in a while. Kind of feel sorry for this girl who’s innocent comment has been blown massively out of proportion. Whats so terrible about enjoying free overseas trips as a perk of one of your hobbies? Or maybe Gavin is “reading between the lines” as he often does and has identified that this girl falls into that stereotype of the typical girl who can’t actually be interested or any good at gaming.
Anthony Nell
April 14, 2014 at 18:02
colin stop talking to yourself, its embarassing
Chip
April 14, 2014 at 19:07
Ask Gavin to check my IP so that he can confirm how completely wrong you are. Surprising as it may seem, there are people who don’t by default agree with everything that Lazygamer says.. now run along and go be a good Lagz groupie.
Gavin Mannion
April 15, 2014 at 14:41
Sorry didn’t see this… This is not Colin unless he’s posting from an entirely different ISP and location.. whcih is HIGHLY unlikely.
As for the girl, I think she’s a good player but is making a morally bankrupt decision by posting this
Mew
October 29, 2014 at 13:00
Innocent comment?
She knows perfectly well what she’s saying. Her comments following up prove that just as much. She thinks any games other than her beloved LoL is a joke.
Clueless
April 14, 2014 at 16:08
I love how people take things out of context… I guess some people dont understand sarcasm :/ OH WELL:D
Jackofall1987
April 14, 2014 at 16:42
Did a cheap personal shot at the MSSA trump this jurnous impartiality, NEVER! Wonder if he ever contacted this poor women for her side of the story?
Charl van der Merwe
April 15, 2014 at 08:33
Yep, another storm in a teacup.
Greyscale
April 15, 2014 at 08:40
Interesting opinion, uninformed, unconsidered and incorrect, but interesting, considering that it seems based on a pre-conception that MSSA is a state funded monolithic organization that unilaterally prescribes to the gaming community how where, when, how and why they are allowed to game.
It is my opinion that if you really cared as much for competitive gaming as you claim, that constructive engagement is less adversarial, and well, duh, more constructive.
Constructing a facebook post, in my opinion is simply poor form. I would suggest that the author confirm his facts before spewing forth the vitriol that he seems to enjoy.