Esports South Africa, and other games : South Africa ranked 12th in the world for eSports

Tuesday 8 December 2015

South Africa ranked 12th in the world for eSports

MWEB Protea eSports Team: (L to R): Taylor Rose, Cameron Tilley, Matthew Smith, Wynand Meiring, Maryke Kennard, Nathan Anderson, Vasudev Stringer

Without doubt MSSA's 2015 MWEB Protea eSports Team that attended the IeSF's 7^th World Championships has had one of the best overall results.

While the team failed to get out of the group stages, the team showed solid growth in that the team has picked up more victories than any other team that has gone before.

The League of Legends team scored an impressive victory over Iran, but just lost to Thailand in what many consider to be one of the best matches of the championship. There is no doubt that the team played its heart out, and, at the end of the group stages, was utterly exhausted.

The members of the League of Legends team are:

South Africa (MSSA)

Maryke 'Ykie' Kennard

Taylor 'elis' Rose

Matthew 'Feno' Smith

Vasudev 'Paga' Stringer

Cameron 'SexyB' Tilley

In StarCraft, Nathan 'StatiC' Anderson won a match, and lost out to Joona 'Serral' Sotala in an exciting test match. Serral went on to win the World championships.

In HearthStone, Wynand 'ViViD' Meiring picked up two impressive victories. Unfortunately the victories were not enough to get Wynand out of the group stages.

However, all the victories that the MWEB Protea eSports Team obtained were enough to help South Africa claw its way up from 13^th place (2014) back into 12^th place overall.

Thus, what with the victories obtained, the impressive amount of media coverage received both in South Africa and abroad, and the final ranking of the team in 12^th place, the team has much to feel satisfied about.

Rank	Country	Name	Point
1	SRB	Serbia	147
2	KOR	Korea	132
3	CHN	China	113
4	FIN	Finland	111
5	THA	Thailand	67
6	PHL	Philippines	63
6	ROU	Romania	63
8	TPE	Chinese Taipei	48
9	CHE	Switzerland	43
9	RUS	Russia	43
11	ISR	Israel	38
12	ZAF	South Africa	33
13	SWE	Sweden	32
14	AZE	Azerbaijan	22
14	BEL	Belgium	22
14	GEO	Georgia	22
14	IDN	Indonesia	22
14	MNG	Mongolia	22
14	TUN	Tunisia	22
20	AUS	Australia	11
20	AUT	Austria	11
20	IRN	Iran	11
20	VNM	Vietnam	11