{"id":97382,"date":"2016-07-01T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97382"},"modified":"2016-07-01T07:27:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:27:38","slug":"south-africas-cs-go-and-league-of-legends-captains-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/97382-south-africas-cs-go-and-league-of-legends-captains-announced","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s CS: GO and League of Legends captains announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The captains that will be leading South Africa&#8217;s CounterStrike: Global Offensive and League of Legends teams at this year&#8217;s IeSF World Championships have been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The two selected to lead the CounterStrike: GO and League of Legends Protea eSports teams are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Counter-Strike: Global\u00a0Offensive<\/strong> &#8211; Jessie Joubert<\/li>\n<li><strong>League of Legends<\/strong> &#8211; Matthew Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Jessie Joubert:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is currently in Matric in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rondebosch.com\/high\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rondebosch High<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for which he plays in school championships. In other games, Jessie represents\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/anteriagaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anteria Gaming<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Jessie earned High School Western Cape Colours, Senior Western Cape Colours, High School National Federation Colours as well as Senior National Federation Colours for CS: GO.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 2016, Jessie received re-awards of High School Western Cape Colours and Senior Western Cape Colours.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie has an unbeaten record in MSSA competition play having never lost a match.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Matthew Smith:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew competes for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/970831249649816\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuks Mind Sports Club<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; an official club based at the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.up.ac.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Pretoria<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Matthew earned his Senior Western Cape Colours and was selected to represent South Africa in the Protea Team that officially represented South Africa at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/esportscommentator.blogspot.co.za\/2015\/10\/mssa-announces-mweb-protea-esports-team.html\" target=\"_blank\">IeSF&#8217;s 7th World Championships<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Seoul. The team came up against very stiff opposition, yet performed better than any other previous South African team.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew also\u00a0has an unbeaten record in MSSA competition play, having never lost a match.<\/p>\n<p>It is in Jessie and Matthew, upon whose broad shoulders, the leadership, inspiration, and skill, that the MSSA put their trust to deliver a great team to participate in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/esportscommentator.blogspot.co.za\/2016\/03\/8th-e-sports-world-championship-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">IeSF&#8217;s \u00a08th World Championships &#8211; Jakarta<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>South Africa, despite its poor infrastructure, punches above its weight in the world rankings, currently being <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ie-sf.com\/en\/record\/rank.php\" target=\"_blank\">ranked <\/a><\/strong>12th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Thus\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mindsportssa\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSSA<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is currently in the process of selecting its various other teams.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazing gaming and tech specials\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97232-amazing-gaming-and-tech-specials-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazing gaming and tech specials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why your driverless car could try to kill you\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/96503-this-is-why-your-driverless-car-could-try-to-kill-you.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why your driverless car could try to kill you<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to ASUS and MSI reveal aftermarket Radeon RX 480 graphics cards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97314-asus-and-msi-reveal-aftermarket-radeon-rx-480-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">ASUS and MSI reveal aftermarket Radeon RX 480 graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captains that will be leading South Africa&#8217;s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends teams at this year&#8217;s IeSF World Championships have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97386,"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":[31,20014,19601,631,2070],"class_list":["post-97382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-captain","tag-counterstrike-go","tag-league-of-legends","tag-mssa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97382","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=97382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97390,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97382\/revisions\/97390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}