{"id":88237,"date":"2016-04-07T18:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88237"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T08:04:12","slug":"schools-provincial-board-game-championships-kick-off-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88237-schools-provincial-board-game-championships-kick-off-this-weekend","title":{"rendered":"School’s Provincial Board game championships kick off this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MSSA’s\u00a0School’s Provincial Championships for Board games and Wargames will commence this weekend, 09 and 10 April in Mpumalanga and Gauteng. The venues for the event are:<\/p>\n

Gauteng<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0The Blue Room, Old Edwardian Society, 11 Ninth Avenue, Lower Houghton<\/p>\n

Mpumulanga<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0HTS Witbank, Witbank<\/p>\n

The event will commence at 09:00 AM on both days with registration required at least half an hour before. Entry and registration into the event are free.<\/p>\n

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Saturday
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Game<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nTime<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nNo of rounds<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ancients<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Backgammon<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Checkers (8 x 8)<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Draughts (Brazilian)<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Draughts (International)<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Diplomacy<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Horse & Musket<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morabaraba<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SesothoMorabaraba<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pike & Shot<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
World War II<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sunday
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Game<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nTime<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nNo of rounds<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ancients<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Diplomacy<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Horse & Musket<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pike & Shot<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
World War II<\/td>\n09H00 – 17H00<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A complete list of the rules and regulations governing the various games can be found on the MSSA’s website, here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Participants are eligible for a number of awards including medals and the opportunity to earn School Provincial Colours in Board games.<\/p>\n

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The MSSA’s School’s Provincial Championships for Board games and Wargames will commence this weekend, 09 and 10 April in Mpumalanga and Gauteng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":88239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,8577,17737,2163,17805],"class_list":["post-88237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-board-games","tag-schools","tag-south-africa","tag-wargames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88241,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88237\/revisions\/88241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}