{"id":34498,"date":"2012-03-20T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T13:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34498"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:27:26","slug":"mweb-mw3-championship-is-sas-biggest-ps3-tournament-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34498-mweb-mw3-championship-is-sas-biggest-ps3-tournament-ever","title":{"rendered":"MWEB Clan Connection MW3 Championship is SA’s biggest PS3 tournament ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

In South Africa, the competitive gaming scene is generally dominated by PC<\/a> gamers, with the likes of Battlefield 3, Call of Duty 4, CoD: Black Ops, StarCraft II, HoN and others being well supported.<\/p>\n

However, local console gamers typically avoid getting too serious when it comes to online gaming.<\/p>\n

MWEB<\/a> Clan Connection’s MW3 PS3<\/a> tournament, which kicked off over the weekend, bucked that trend, with 32 teams signing up in around 6 hours. That\u2019s double the amount of teams that signed up for the Xbox 360<\/a> version of the tournament.<\/p>\n

The event was so well received that Kalahari.com<\/a> doubled the prize purse to R10,500 in Kalahari vouchers.<\/p>\n

The weekend saw the first 3 rounds play out, consisting of Search and Destroy, Capture the Flag, and Domination.<\/p>\n

The tournaments follows the MLG based rule set. According to MWEB, the event was well organized and smoothly run from the MWEB MCave.<\/p>\n

Teams showed up on time and the first round narrowed the participants down by half. According to MWEB, the Capture the Flag round was a \u201cmessy affair, with sharp tactics narrowing down the teams even further.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 8 teams currently remaining in the tournament are F34R Elite, D3ATH Ang3ls, DICE1, D2U, xR8D, Lost Elite, F34R Delta, and F34R F34R.<\/p>\n

These teams will battle it out this week in Domination to reach the semi finals.<\/p>\n

Source: MWEB GameZone<\/a><\/h5>\n

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