Organised Chaos was planning to host 1040 players at the MTN Expo Centre (Nasrec) from November 27th-29th 2009 to mark the beginning of their national footprint and expansion into other cities. The event was postponed until they have secured more sponsors and surplus infrastructure.
“To do the event by November, we’d be putting OC into a precarious financial position as we still need to purchase additional power and network infrastructure” says Rheeder-Kleist spokesperson for OC. “We are fully committed to going ahead into other city centres with the first planned event to be JHB seeing as though there are at least 4 times more gamers there, but we’d probably burn ourselves out physically as we personally build much of our kit and financially as the costs to get to JHB seem to be much higher than we originally budgeted for”
Organised Chaos has been running events in Cape Town since December 2001, and has recently smashed its previous year’s attendance record, with their June and July events hitting over 720 attendees. They currently have seating for 840 attendees in Cape Town and had planned for the JHB event in order to expand their national footprint as well as push their infrastructure to support 1000+ attendees.
“Seeing as though we aren’t going to JHB in the immediate future, we’re going to increase CPT’s capacity to 1000, maybe 1200 to the venue capacity which would mark our infrastructure readiness for JHB. We’re aiming to go to JHB by early 2010” says Rheeder-Kleist.
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