{"id":97834,"date":"2016-07-06T13:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97834"},"modified":"2016-07-06T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:55:40","slug":"south-africas-best-counter-strike-players-are-aiming-for-the-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97834-south-africas-best-counter-strike-players-are-aiming-for-the-world-championships","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s best Counter-Strike players are aiming for the World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An all-star lineup of South Africa&#8217;s best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players are set to enter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twc.e-frag.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The World Championships<\/a><\/strong> qualifiers in August.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas &#8220;cent&#8221; Hadjipaschali was chosen to select the team composition for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/southernbarbarians\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Southern Barbarians<\/strong><\/a>, who will represent the best South African Counter-Strike players that the country has to offer, including players from <strong>Bravado Gaming<\/strong>, <strong>Carbon eSports<\/strong>, <strong>Aperture Gaming<\/strong>, and <strong>eNergy eSports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hadjipaschali stated clearly that the team does not represent the official South African Counter-Strike team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This team or opportunity DOES NOT IN ANY WAY represent the official South African Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team and in no ways represents \u2018Team South Africa\u2019 \u2013 the players, managers, coaches &amp; team is simply a squad from South Africa who will represent The Southern Barbarians brand &amp; will be partaking in the TWC qualifiers as a team FROM South Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A panel of local, experienced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players was created to decide the lineup of the international squad. The panel included the following community members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andreas &#8220;cent&#8221; Hadjipaschali<\/li>\n<li>Daniel &#8220;spoof&#8221; van Wyk<\/li>\n<li>Riaan &#8220;style&#8221; van Niekerk<\/li>\n<li>James &#8220;zerochance&#8221; Wyjnberg<\/li>\n<li>Dane &#8220;racno&#8221; Friedman<\/li>\n<li>Sharon &#8220;shzzchk&#8221; Watson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Southern Barbarians CS: GO Lineup<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As per E-Frag: TWC rules, a maximum of three players from one\u00a0MGO may be selected for the core squad.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the official Southern Barbarians Lineup for The World Champions 2016:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Core Lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruan &#8220;Elusive&#8221; Van Wyk &#8211; Captain<\/li>\n<li>Rieghardt &#8220;Flexee&#8221; Romatzki &#8211; Multi-Fragger<\/li>\n<li>Rhys &#8220;Fadey&#8221; Armstrong &#8211; Entry-Fragger<\/li>\n<li>Dimitri &#8220;Detrony&#8221; Hadjipaschali &#8211; Lurker<\/li>\n<li>Robby &#8220;Blackpoison&#8221; da Loca &#8211; AWP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reserves:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aran &#8220;Sonic&#8221; Groesbeek<\/li>\n<li>Dominic &#8220;Domster&#8221; Sampaio<\/li>\n<li>Stefan &#8220;Nefan&#8221; Smit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Coach:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel &#8220;spoof&#8221; van Wyk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The World Championships<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Southern Barbarians will compete in online qualifiers against Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco for a spot in the grand finals.<\/p>\n<p>The online qualifiers will be held in August, and the grand finals will take place from <strong>12-16 October<\/strong> in Belgrade, Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>Find more details about the Southern Barbarians team lineup\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/southernbarbarians\/posts\/1119199814804573\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Are Nvidia\u2019s new Pascal cards really as powerful as we think?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/95913-are-nvidias-new-pascal-cards-really-as-powerful-as-we-think.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Are Nvidia\u2019s new Pascal cards really as powerful as we think?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Intel Core i5 versus i7 processors \u2013 which is better for gaming?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/96615-intel-core-i5-versus-i7-processors-which-is-better-for-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel Core i5 versus i7 processors \u2013 which is better for gaming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Man builds R760,000 computer to play Tetris\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/97766-man-builds-r760000-computer-to-play-tetris.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Man builds R760,000 computer to play Tetris<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An all-star lineup of South Africa&#8217;s best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players are sent to enter The World Championships qualifiers in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":97838,"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":[20,3],"tags":[31,16685,11428,18673,2290,2811,20144,18787,20142,2163,20140,18917],"class_list":["post-97834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pc","tag-active","tag-aperture","tag-bravado","tag-carbon","tag-championships","tag-counter-strike","tag-energy","tag-global","tag-offensive","tag-south-africa","tag-southern-barbarians","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97834","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\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97890,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97834\/revisions\/97890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}