The best gaming schools in the country

While many of us grew up playing traditional school sports like cricket and rugby at high school, today’s teenagers are trying out for a regular space in their school’s eSports team.

As a result, it should come as no surprise that when the MSSA revealed its latest rankings for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the majority of competitors comprise of high school teams.

Out of the 26 ranked teams, there are no less than 18 teams are school teams, which include teams from such prestigious schools as St John’s College, Parklands College, Jeppe Boys, DF Malan, Parktown Boys, Rondebosch, Fairmont High, St Conrad’s College, Pretoria Boys, Hoerskool Generaal Hertzog, Maritzburg College and Northcliff High.

Out of those school’s DF Malan, Northcliff High, and St John’s College has all regularly provided athletes to the Protea eSports Team.

You can check out the full rankings below:

CounterStrike: GO Rankings
Position	Name of Player	Club
1	WRG	White Rabbit Gaming
2	Tera – Qube	Anteria
3	VOID	St John’s
4	PORAXYSM	All Stars
5	VIGILANTES	TV
6	flikadawist	DF Malan
7	VOID	St John’s
8	DELTA	All Stars
9	Rondebosch Boys High	RBHS
10	Phantom Troupe – Branden	Fairmont
11	PG – 18	Parklands
12	Pride	Parktown Boys
13	QUANTM	St Conrads
14	PFU	Fairmont
15	Fairmont High School	Fairmont
16	SPEARR	St Johsn
17	Tesseract	Jeppe Boys
18	PBHS red	Pretoria Boys
19	HGH	Hoerskool Generaal Hertzog
20	All Stars	All Stars
21	PRONHS	Northcliff High
22	LAGSTEPS	BNKR
23	PG16	Parklands
24	VGR146	Lofdal
25	PBHS white	Pretoria Boys
26	Maritzburg College	Maritzburg College