Incredible Connection 2009 MSSA LAN Championships
by Greg Blyth, Do Gaming journalist
Tags: Incredible Connection, MSSA, Mind Sports South Africa, ESWAT, 80’s, AT, Daud Akhtar, Mark Dennison, Dimitri Hadjipaschali, Andreas Hadjipaschali, Suhail Botha, Jean Theron, Mitchell Vermeulen
The Incredible Connection 2009 Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) LAN Championships took place this last weekend at Northcliff High School.
In the Call of Duty (CoD) competition ESWAT took first place. The team is made up of Fernando Vermeulen, Dennis Janse van Rensburg, Riaan Latsky, Markus Khuhne, Jandre Janse van Vuuren and Frans Brewis, all of whom have been awarded national colours.
Pieter 'Cyrus' Venter, Colin Webster and Richard 'DeMoNiK' Sjoberg. (Picture from KZN LAN Provincial Championships).The DotA competition saw a tie between 80’s and AT, which 80’s then won in the tie-breaker.
In the FIFA 09 competition, played on PlayStation 3, Daud Akhtar beat Xola Magwaza in a tie-break, while on the Guitar Hero front, played on Xbox 360, Mark Dennison won and was awarded national colours.
Two brothers were also awarded their national colours: Dimitri Hadjipaschali for winning the Quake 3 competition; and Andreas Hadjipaschali for winning the Starcraft competition.
Gamers at the national LAN Championships.Suhail Botha, Jean Theron and Mitchell Vermeulen were the winners of the TrackMania Nations Forever competition. The reason a tie-breaker was not held in this case was that the Swiss system used in MSSA competitions does not account for a three-way tie. Hence all three players were awarded first place.
Verbatim have teamed up with Incredible Connection by adding incentives to the gamers who competed. These include 640GB HDD Media Station Pro’s, Verbatim Rapier V1 Gaming Mouse’s or Verbatim Storage bundles which include eight Gig Micro Flash Drives.
Trevor Henry, from Incredible Connection, awards Mitchell Vermeulen, one of the TrackMania Nations Forever winners.| Article Comments | |||||||||
| Good times  | ||||||||
| all those coca-colas cant be gud for their teeth | ||||||||
| I sense armpit rash | ||||||||
| "In the Call of Duty (CoD) competition ESWAT took first place." No offence ............... but ROFL  | ||||||||
| ESWAT yeah not to be rude...... Thats like being the best at a game you made up? Anyway congrats on supporting a MSSA when most of the COD4 community said they wont support them. Its like getting gold when your the only person in the running. But what ever blows your hair back. Enjoy..... oh and........ok then ROFL(but LM*0 is better). Bwhahahahahahahahah! | ||||||||
| Guys no swearing on the forums please. I have again removed something swearing from a post. We don't allow acronym swearing either like LM***. To read the story on our rules, click here | ||||||||
| The event was well run and there was no major hassles throughout the weekend. If the community chooses not to support then that is the communities choice, but please do not take a win away from the ESWAT guys, they played well against the competition and won fair and square. The event will be televised on The Verge this thursday evening and I hope that some of the guys will tune in to watch it. Well played to the winners and I look forward to the next event. | ||||||||
| Hmmmm, craigish, 1v1? No offence.........but ROFL | ||||||||
| Yeah im sure Norhtcliffs Chess club gave them a good run for there money ,GG WP ESWAT Myself-Luci (LURVED) it.O please can we also get a traffic Cone Shirt?Kthx | ||||||||
| Atleast they win something ? | ||||||||
| "Hmmmm, craigish, 1v1? No offence.........but ROFL" Lol, im guessing you took offence  | ||||||||
| "Atleast they win something ?" LOL! ziiiing.... | ||||||||
| Call of Duty 4 (PC) |
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| Warcraft III: DotA (PC) |
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| Guitar Hero World Tour (Xbox 360) |
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| FIFA 09 (PS3) |
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| TrackMania Nations Forever (PC) |
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