MSSA has announced that 10ten Gaming are hosting the 2013 MWEB Online Dota 2 Championship, which will offer local Dota 2 players the opportunity to qualify for the National Team trials.
Dota 2 players in South Africa will have the opportunity to get full Protea Colours for the game and represent the country in an official Test Match against Romania.
“With Romania ranked 3rd out of 33 countries in the IeSF world rankings (SA is ranked 16th), we’re going to need the best players to answer the challenge,” said Colin Webster, MSSA president.
Tournament Structure
MSSA rules
- If less than six teams, the championship shall be a Round Robin Championship
- If 6 to 10 teams the championship shall be four rounds as played to the Swiss System
- If 11 to 30 teams the championship shall be five rounds as played to the Swiss System
Eligibility
- Any player who is a Registered Player affiliated to a MSSA member club may enter.
Entry fee
- Entry is free to all full-paid-up Registered Players.
- Only fully-paid-up Registered Players may participate in this event.
Entry date
- Entries need to be submitted by no later than Tuesday, 16 April 2013.
Medals
- PREMIER: Medals shall be awarded to the first three teams.
- UNIVERSITY:Medals shall be awarded to the first three teams that have not won a Premier medal and which are comprised entirely of students currently registered at any officially recognised University.
- SCHOLARS: Medals shall be awarded to the first three teams of learners currently registered at any officially recognised school, provided they have not received any Premier medals.
- WOMEN: A Medal will be awarded to the first woman’s team that did not receive any other medal.
Colours
- Protea Colours: Only Players that are selected to represent South Africa in International Championships may earn National Colours if the Protea Colours Board’s criteria are met.
- National Colours: All Players that win all of their Matches at a National Championship will earn National Colours.
- Provincial Colours: All Players that win all of their Matches at a Provincial Championship will earn Provincial Colours. All Players who score within the top 50% in a specific Period at a Provincial Championship, and who also score within the top 50% at a National Championship in the same period and in the same year, will earn Provincial Colours.
When and Where
- 20 April 2013
- The first round will start at 14H00. Players shall be given 90 minutes to complete each round.
- The tournament will run via the MWEB server
Accreditation
The championship is accredited as being of the same status as a provincial championship. This means that the championship shall be used for the following:
- The awarding of provincial colours;
- The awarding of medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in Premier, Under 24, and School categories;
- The ability to qualify for National Team Trials.
Please note that the MSSA shall be selecting a team to officially represent South Africa in a test match against Romania. From such championships, invites shall be sent out to the Registered Players of the teams that finish in the top three or the top 20% (whichever is greater) as per the Regulations. As per the Regulations all such players who qualify from the genre as a whole shall be invited. However, the Trials shall be held after the championship on 6 April 2013.
The Registered Players that enter the Trials shall organise themselves into teams that:
- All come from the same area. In other words everybody in the team must reside within 50km’s, as the crow flies, to each other, or
- Any team that does not comply with point 1 above, will have to undertake to get the players in their team who are not in the same area to the venue for the test matches at their own expense.
As usual Trials shall be done at a LAN venue, and the team that can best represent South Africa shall then be selected.
Shout casting:
- The MSSA shall decide who may shout-cast the games.
- Anybody wishing to be appointed as a Shout-Caster must apply in writing to [email protected]
- For further information, please go to: http://e-sport.co.za/index.php/Online
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Well I attended the MSSA competition last Sunday ( ON EASTER ) and we were told that we would be playing from 9am … So after getting up early and missioning out to WITS we only started our first game at 10:30am …. We ended up leaving at 6 pm after playing a whole 4 games…. 4 games from 9 am to 6pm … If they told us to just play every team at the venue and give the results we all would have been home with our families by 2pm with more games played as well… Also the swiss system is a joke, Why cant they just do a double elimination bracket like everywhere else in the world.
Pathetic waste of time competition.