Last year I desperately wanted to showcase girl gaming in South Africa. I had this crazy mad idea that I handed over to Mettlestate. They asked Evetech for a venue, spent a stack of their own cash and made it happen. The Valkyrie Challenge is one of my proudest accomplishments to date. But they decided to not stop there. While I enjoyed a break in December,…
Oh here's a surprise: there's a female CSGO team heading to China for WESG AND there is a female CSGO player heading to China to play Hearthstone too! Wait what? Let's rewind a bit to earlier this year when the Valkyrie Challenge happened. All female CSGO challenge, prize money, Esports etc. You can read about that here. I'm the first to argue that males and females…
Real talk time: leading up to rAge 2017 I was fed up with South African esports. It might have been that an impossible to juggle schedule and chaotic year had finally taken its toll, but I'd had enough. Close on two years ago I wrote a blog post declaring that I'd use my small platforms to better highlight a local scene I loved and I went…
I’m a huge South African Esports fan. I live for our local community and desperately want us to achieve the same level of success that the European scene has achieved. Overseas, Esports is big business. I could throw a stack of numbers at you but I don’t need to. You’re a gamer - you likely know. However, in South Africa we don’t see the same success.…
Friends, today rAge 2017 kicks off. It is going to be a crazy busy weekend for me because I'm the ESL correspondent/behind the scenes interviewer for the ESL African Championship which is taking place at the expo and bought to you by Kwese. It is going to be a huge affair. I've just come back from rehearsals and the stage is so damn rad. rAge looks…
I got a rad shirt dropped off a few days ago along with a selection of PrimeSelf Supplements. The drop was to announce PrimeSelf Supplements of Big 5 Esports. Most of these names are probably unfamiliar to you so let me fill you in: Big 5 Esports is a player owned team that came about following a host of shuffles and changes with MGOs in SA.…
My name is Sam, though I'm also known as Tech Girl and this is my little space on the internet. My friends and I share our love for all things gaming, geek and gadgets here. I'm a South African Esports host and content creator. Links to all my various platforms are here on the blog. I'm a giant nerd, own far too many pairs of Converse and secretly wish I could be one of the X-Men!
