Picture the scene: You're up early, you decide to get some shopping done, and you head on down to ye olde supermarket, only to be met by a horde of fidgety dudes at the front door, hungry for a fresh drop of Pokemon cards which can then be scalped online for grossly-inflated prices. That's the reality which Instagram user tcg_grassi and Twitter user bigcards30 shared over the weekend, as a Walmart in Pennsylvania saw a small mob of folks rush inside the store to score some of that sweet poke-loot.

Update: The Rand Show and by extension RUSH has been postponed to a later date, so we’ll run this competition once again when a more concrete and safer date has been announced. It’s carnival time! And nothing spells out a festive feeling of excitement and fun better than the annual Jozi highlight that is the Rand Show. This year’s event …

The Rand Show 2020 will become the new home for RUSH, as well as the next step in hitting the big time of cosplay with the South African Championship for the World Cosplay Summit. Its being run by the fellas over at NAG, so its guaranteed to not be a train smash at least. Hi Tarryn! You’ll be able to get all your esports kicks there, with the action heating up amidst the hustle and bustle of the Rand Show.

The “excitable humans from NAG” as they so lovingly describe themselves are no strangers to hosting gaming events, especially considering they have multiple rAge expos under their belt. Rush has been going on for a couple of years now and was formed as the esports arm of rAge. This was my first year attending and whilst I only attended Day …

There’s a whole world out there to explore in Rage 2. Populated with hideous mutants, smelly bandits and fascist super-cyborgs, you’re quickly going to find out that you’ll need more than an assault rifle and a plucky attitude to survive. Fortunately, humanity was clever enough to bury high tech time capsules all over the land, stuffing them to the gills with experimental technology that were just waiting to be unlocked and used by a lone soldier looking to overthrow an oppressive regime.

Last year, I went to the second annualised Rush esports event. I have to be honest, in that I found it terribly underwhelming. That’s probably because I’m just not into esports, and that’s effectively all there was there. So I went through, and within 10 minutes I had seen everything I needed to see. That could be different in the year 2019, because this time the esports event has joined forces with Geek Fest.

Local tournament extravaganza Rush is looking to grow that mainstream appeal even further this year with a selection of tournaments that caters to the three biggest genres in the scene currently, but to do just that it looks like Rush will be moving to an even bigger venue.

Kaizer Chiefs and Orland Pirates are both set on esports, so who's next?