The Call of Duty Celebrity Challenge will mark the close the eSports Branding Summit and usher in the start of the MAG Cup, and will see two celebrity teams face each other in a battle for glory.
Team Red will feature musician Jack Parow, comedian Jason Goliath and rugby player Rohan Janse van Rensburg, with team captain being Ismail “Jakez” Jacobs from eN_Astra.
Team Blue will be led by Insane Gaming’s Kaelin “Tanker” Govender and will feature journalist Pippa Tshabalala, musician AKA and comedian Deep Fried Man.
The match will be played out in front of a live audience on the MAG Cup stage at rAge on 7 October 2016 from 1:30pm, and will also be streamed live to those not able to attend the expo at the Ticketpro Dome.
What you can win
To celebrate this epic battle of celebrities – and to get you to pick a side – there will be a chance for supporters to win an exclusive hamper sponsored by Monster Energy, ASTRO Gaming, KontrolFreek, Always On and NAG.
To stand in line for a chance to win this great bundle of bounty, supporters will need to voice their support on Twitter and Facebook by announcing their allegiance as follows:
“I want to win the exclusive MAG hamper, so I’m supporting #MAGCupRED / #MAGCupBLUE (choose your team) in the #MAGCUPZA Celebrity Challenge.”
The winner of the hamper will be chosen via a lucky draw after the competition closes on Thursday 6 October 2016 at 14:00.
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Old school CoD fan here. Call of Duty is dying and needs drastical changes as soon as possible. Celebrities will not change anything.
Yes, Call of Duty franchise can be revived. Make the new game more mature, realistic, complex and less violent (enormous amounts of violence don’t make video games mature). Make sure it’s finished and bugs/errors are fixed. Developers should not be rushed. Content plans are a must. Bring back the Second World war and old multiplayer maps (Carentan, Foy, Harbor, Pavlov, Rocket, Toujane). Let us play as Germans, Finns, Italians and French of the French State (Vichy France) in the singleplayer and on dedicated servers in the multiplayer (plus LAN support). Find a talented scenarist who can write a decent story without Hollywood cliches and political correctness. Focus on gameplay and realism instead of graphics. Use appropriate music (no rap/rock/electronic/indie garbage) and simple graphical user interface (like in the very first game, but more conservative) instead of “modern” flashy ugliness. Make intro, credits, cutscenes and in-game videos skippable. Improve hit detection. Promote the purchase of the game (announce that you will release free content when X million copies of the game are sold). Reduce system requirements. Remove regional lockout, DRM, mandatory Steam requirement, modding support (most mods are hacks and unoriginal junk anyway), health regeneration, quick time events and zombie/survival modes. Do not use “modern” distorted audio effects, flashy visual effects, movie/video game references and Affirmative Action characters. The new game should not be featured in any “esports competitions” (playing video games is not a sport). Avoid paid content, microtransactions, pre-order bonuses, special game editions and anachronistic/unrealistic things (reflex sights in 1940s, Thompson M1A1 submachine guns with drum magazines).