SA team selected for Battlefield 3 Nations Cup tournament

The groups have been announced for the ClanBase Nations Cup Battlefield 3 tournament.

The event kicks off on Monday 23 January 2012, and a total of 24 countries qualified to take part from the initial pool of 39.

Team South Africa will face off against some staunch competitors from Australia, Belgium, Finland, Portugal and Russia.

The group stage begins on 23 January 2012, with four groups of six teams facing off against each other. The top three in each will advance.

Team South Africa, is in Group C, competing against some staunch competition from the nation of Australia, Belgium, Finland, Portugal and Russia.

The full group stage match line-up can be found on the ClanBase website.

Battlefield 3

Clan FiB

Team South Africa are being represented by clan FiB, making them the official South African Battlefield 3 team, falling under the jurisdiction of Mind Sports South Africa.

FiB qualified during an online competition organised by Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) and hosted on MWEB servers, which took place on extremely short notice this past weekend (15 January 2012).

Colin Webster, MSSA President, said that while the team couldn’t be awarded Protea Colours, they have received National Federation Colours and will be an official South African team.

“Clan FiB performed very well in the competition, winning all their rounds except one against Clan ASF. We’ve got a strong set of Battlefield 3 players in Team South Africa to represent us at the Nations Cup and we wish them the best of luck,” said Webster.

“MSSA would also like to give special thanks to MWEB GameZone for hosting the competition on their Battlefield 3 servers at such short notice, after Clanbase on Friday confirmed we had two only days to enter a South African team,” said Webster.

Battlefield 3

Team South Africa

Below is the list of FiB players officially representing South Africa.

• [FiB]Assassin – AJ Herbst – player
• [FiB]BloodSlug – Chris Hart – Vice Leader
• [FiB]Chaotic – Helgard van Rooyen – player
• [FiB]Crincler – Daniel Towse – player
• [FiB]Cromedome – Kyle Burton – player
• [FiB]Jalgorty – Ricky Schlenk – player
• [FiB]Lt-Mat – Matt Lennox – player
• [FiB]PeStil3nc3 – Reinhardt van Rooyen – BF3 Team Captain
• [FiB]Sabrefox91o – Renier van Rooyen – player
• [FiB]Vermaak – MJ Vermaak – Leader
• [FiB]Zaarehs – Sheraaz Nunnian – player
• [FiB]EasyKill – Riaan Vrey – Manager

Battlefield 3

Nations Cup Battlefield 3 tournament

Players will not be travelling for the tournament, and all games will be played online.

The match format consists of one game played on each team’s home servers.

In each match team South Africa will play a round on a locally hosted server, and then a round on a server hosted in their opponent’s home country.

Naturally, latency will be an issue with which local players will have to contend when playing on distant servers.

MWEB is supplying team SA with a TeamSpeak server, a local game server, and a server in the UK on which to practice.

Sadly, there will not be any live feeds of the event due to the fact that Battlefield 3 does not have a theatre mode. MWEB said that it is investigating other ways to stream the games live.

Desmond Kurz, MWEB online gaming manager said: “GameZone wants to help South African gamers compete on the international stage, so we will continue to work closely with MSSA to get more teams involved in the other games offered for the NationsCup. Hopefully, we can have an even bigger national representation next year.”

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