For the past few months I've spent some time chatting to friends in the South African Gaming and Esports industry and tossing ideas around. My biggest frustration, personally, was that in my line of work I have the incredible opportunity to come across amazing stories and smaller scenes doing rad stuff, but I'm not always able to share it all on the platforms available to me.…
I work in esports. Granted most of my work involves swinging a mic on stage and not really dealing with the nuts and bolts of how things work behind the scenes, but I think starting out in the extremely tiny and relatively new scene that is South African Esports means I've had slightly more involvement in the behind the scenes stuff. For the most part, South…
Buckle up, this is going to be a long post. Earlier this year, Blizzard announced that any country that could field a committee and team could compete in the 2019 Overwatch World Cup, which was held at Blizzcon this past weekend. I was nominated and voted in by the South African Overwatch community as General Manager. I've written numerous posts before regarding the journey to this…
There's a lot of things on the internet lately and if you're an esports and gaming fan like me there is a good chance you might have missed a few updates over the past few weeks. These are three esports and gaming stories that grabbed my attention and I thought I'd share them with you: Kaspersky launches esports anti-cheat Following the StarLadder Berlin Major earlier this…
It's time for Comic Con Africa. Running from the 21st to the 24th of September at Gallagher Estate there is a whole stack of stuff to get excited about. There's going to be a LOT of gaming and esports fun going down throughout the weekend and I'll be running around making sure I'm completely involved in all the awesomeness. This is quick post to let you…
Hopefully by now you know about Team South Africa. A collection of South Africa's best Overwatch Players attempting to get to Los Angeles at the end of October to compete at the Overwatch World Cup happening at Blizzcon. If you don't, here's a quick recap: I was voted in, by the community, to be general manager of Team South Africa. We were invited to compete at…
My name is Sam, though I'm also known as Tech Girl. I'm an esports host and shoutcaster. I work around the world on rad esports competitions. I've worked on PUBG Europe League, Overwatch Contenders and a bunch of fun Nintendo Europe events. I also create content around tech, gaming and esports. Links to all my various platforms are here on the blog. You can find out more in the about section (you'll also find ways to contact me there). I'm a giant nerd and secretly wish I could be one of the X-Men!
