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ok today on the stream we're looking at a sports or competitive video game playing in africa now i have to attention it is typical or no for america asia or south europe to see big gaming torn immense as far as a sports are concerned as billions of dollars involved and need to pay as a league game was really really infused last take fans but could thout on the african continent and is our big question a strain or questions do you want to ask experts you can jump into the comments

section and you too can be part of this discussion but 1st let me give you a little taste of what it's like to be any sports tournament we join the 2018 fee for. global sirius in the playoffs that game has already begun. for every player that you could sort of have like. i don't feel pressure just bring it on show me what you've got i think i can beat you that's the side you should try and get in your head the confidence you give the beast if you go. pretty serious read a whole it's not a reason it's a lot of crazy i charge these feel right now let's take a look at this here's the reply now to. my good friend you'd have to dig that one out of your net earlier the beast sound check out and douglas joining us today to talk about sports on the african continent who they are what

happened in that game. good evening guys yeah a gave me goose bumps once again playing against a 2 time world champion. sponsored oakley one of the biggest names in freefall you study. among the glorious you know just like you saw the african flag are there for people who don't know who and in small scale introduce yourself tell them what you. could even promise on africa i'm a 23 year old. monte gaming organization in south africa called game and i specialize in a game called thief itself football is some people know when i stop simulate go again and that's what i saw you folks get sad reality douglas welcome to the stream introduce yourself tell us all what you. good morning.

everyone my name is douglas a ghetto moderate article useful championship which is africa's primary sports league we run tournaments across $24.00 african countries on the internet. and trusted to see how we can bring identify sports players sports like them and also we got them done to be professional players happy to be a happy dad he has sound interesting south so my name is sam i'm from south africa and i'm an east port shakara star which basically means i get to talk about players like to the art is being way too modest he's probably one of the best b. for players in africa right now so i'm going to say that because that's my job as a comment said it's a harp players like tear up so let's start with some basic sam for people who had a need to actually need to the concept of a sports kind of growing on the african continent where the good player has a more is the state of all sports right now. so i think from

a con for talking about africa as a continent to say we have the good players i think that's probably good play is in a lots of places i dart are just because the continents are big i know a lot of the incredible south african players i nor the most phenomenal fighting games plays in kenya as well so where all this play is all over the consonants i just think we're at the point where the richest of the world hasn't noticed it so when you mention ways e-sports right now in africa we know it's yeah it's starting to get bigger we're starting to see players like judy. in the world but i feel like the race the world doesn't even know that we're here they should be scared because when i praise cam we're going to take all the prize money douglas and his love in his head oh douglas what is the flavor that comes from the continent that we're not seeing in europe asian players a phenomenon because they are way ahead of the rest of the world but what is it that is coming from kenya nigeria south africa egypt what are you playing.

africa have a mix of just a family by brand mix of cultures across the continent i think that is what we bring to the table in is what the dynamic team the competitiveness and you know just a lot of the sport of the world as much as it is but we love sports or the traditional and what you see in from running our tournament from $29000.00 is you know the people lucky for the people outside in games and also now you know also reefing simitian racing is something that is growing strongly are we for example in the past year started with 34 taken street fighter and last year even with a pandemic you know we were able to expand into 3 for tech and again up to mobile. and league of legends so we had a mix. of the tree but also the not all this. or display or also

growing professionally within the specific love or title that is our. what i loved in that little clip that we played there was just beforehand consult lost as the commentators or is this guy is what south africa i did wasn't even expecting to be bitten by south africa is just this thing that is your secret weapon that the secret sauce is that player is international i'm not expecting them to be brilliant players from south africa kenya or nigeria and you kind of creep up on. yeah on the bus and i can agree with you on that i've watched that clip over and over and i listen to the commentary just like you mention and i'm not just going into that game i knew i had no page on me or know i had the whole globes or the whole continent support obviously not just product to come but all my fellow

africans supporting the i felt no place you know coming up against the biggest name seen in the world and obviously there was no audio expectation from my side but more from this side and i just went into it with ease and now they're like 2 minutes and i didn't expect me to do to be that they miss world champion and i think there's so many incredibly talented players in freefall especially is wrong that i can speak. out of the experience from you know like it's like egypt i they go senegal south africa as well and kenya as well so i yeah it's all about getting the opportunity having the critical infrastructure that you went. at 1st and you know and just being able to to get ourselves to do a platform or 2 a level to do to get to the international states and i'm under essential we have ability rapid ellen to have become a nation and education to compete like we've shown on the un previous occasions in

multiple games you know like counter-strike as well and and it can and study. exit so it's all about getting out in proving ourselves when wind up you know you know and so i'm saying this put your head and it's incredible that you know during this professional and that this is grown into a job and this is only of the last 4 or 5 yes for instance festival set the scene what are you doing what would you say of rounding a tight as into this tournament. so right there i'm actually just having the best time because my job is kind of cool i have no pressure i mean i do i'm on live i'm alive during the brokaw so this particular picture was taken in berlin in germany in 2019 i got to work on the pipe to europe which was the biggest league in europe with the best pub suppose you pay pepsi and rochester talking to team they quit which is a very famous organization around the world they have some of the best east coast players they just won the competition as i was interviewing them and having

a loss with one of the players because i'd like to make a couple of jaxtr a laxity one and i've actually got to travel the world doing this job commentating on games talking to play is and i thought insert it wasn't something that i'd play and it wasn't something that i saw as a korea i just lived telling the players stories because especially where i'm from in south africa we have the most incredible e-sports players not are any good how good they are in the game but they just have these amazing back stories and they're really fascinating people to talk to i mean you've got to yeah yeah i love talking to him because he's got so many insights and he's played around the world telling those stories is what i get to do and it means i get to talk about my love of video games as well so it's really something that means even if you're not good at video games e-sports of us are so many opportunities career wise so you get to enjoy your passion and turn your hobby into your job we're getting a lot of enthusiasm i guess from al online audience stand behind coming to me in

just a moment but also we have a lot of enthusiasm from people who are involved in sports around the african continent that have an effect on the. i can tell you that there has been a lot of interest in these boys in gaming on the continent and there's been little markable rising in south africa over the past 2 or 3 years we've got a professional team they stay in one house all they do is and is that doing these boards and gaming all the professional league and they compete in offices try to mend our schools see how difficult it is unclear who need the guys these for free to do so to contribute i don't see really considered a route for those we routed to go get the guys and comment a little more toward out on to the jumper to probably end on good notes before you go to all the other ones is quite out of it useful to go through all of this was good enough to go let's be practical hey what are the biggest challenges for you as a professional sport athlete being based in south africa. and

i would say firstly for me speaking from my personal experience this roddick's probably internet. connection it's very difficult i'm sure many other players can that. will feel the same way so especially when the area where i am in south africa you know i don't have the best internet there are a double whammy so. often that it becomes difficult competing in tournaments any well cup qualifiers so that's why i signed with a girl i gained you know to give me up life form to succeed basically and to compete with the best of my ability so when i don't compete i would then it down to what government settings i misspoke where they based and now obviously i have it at the sources and it allows me to compete you know it way out i mean awful i think for south africans it's all about. not having the proper unit connection not having

all of the necessary equipment and maybe infrastructure like when we come to european teams you know. and american teams as well and asians all these guys are you know in one in one basically in one i'll settle in one not boding they're all playing there for the entire you know what all the equipment in for a start big gap to get it just internet you know well so they have that the financial backing and strong yeah so i think that is something really we kind of like how do you play when was the last time you play how do you train yet. so calmly i'm also a program student i study accounting so at all about balance writing the 1st $34.00 days i tend to get a kid that to my studies and then off and on weekends you know what i did to sunday i will stop playing and and practicing and you know cupie doll you see so it's all

about balance you know what i know it's just as essential. that chair. has a good will a shave right i'm looking as always i'm sure that a guy was chat show us the chance movie yet what's special about that chat room oh my goodness look at that that is a chad littlefield is a shout master shout mistress tell us about the chat talk us through that i guess it. just looks cool right yes look like you be in business or in your i ever work. but those gaming shows are red but i think talking about gaming shows and some of the things that you mentioned about some of the struggles in here in africa and i know in south africa just give like gaming chairs like that cost so much more in specifically in size and $100.00 for a chat. add more here because we're further away so it's a shipping yeah means we pay more money which means

a lot of the equipment we get is somewhat more of a price so like to us it is players overseas that have all the gear and everything we're paying a premium for it which means a lot of younger players can't necessarily afford the cool gaming to that's something that i think a lot of people don't focus on and like junior mentioned as well when he travels overseas or any other player from africa goes overseas the the players in europe and asia and america they are paid salaries to just play games all day and i play is have to be shootings that have to have jobs that they've got to buy a lot of this stuff so it's very difficult to find full time players and i think it's hard when you have to go up against someone who can spin 8 hours of the day just focusing on playing the games and training versus someone like judy has to study guarded legs to is struggle with incidents and i think the fact that we can so ghar hits ahead with the best in the world just shows what we've been able to do if some of those resources were available to african players i want to bring in

a rule well known a dozen of us fighting a really well. from east africa from kenya and then the screen has a net and and it's well as well as she's white house and of again about the challenge is i guess is a job the african pets are proud of that it's to have it's not on the list let's see what she has to say about that. giving us. more confident more clearly since as an introvert i tend to present a clue to me once in the. small i consider to give me 100. 1000000 hasn't been though challenges because one of the african continent in studio one book is. there's a lot of untapped talent to the skin be improved on top of the to feel the new can be a more welcoming place for people of the world uses and didn't gender identity use

and nor do i need to use ability to be more than 2 years out of the ticket in change for the better. douglas kenya is just a great hot spot for tech for young tech it's feels like you've got all of the raw materials are right there to be not just great responses it's the start it's the entry point of a conversation but we're really talking about how this tech developed on the continent what are the barriers what are the boundaries because we've got young people who have talent now what are they to douglas go ahead. thank you thank you for for this the setting for us in kenya early fortunately no we do have the likes of facebook the likes of google the likes of microsoft you know who set up shop here and also when you look around you know just like my colleagues have mentioned about internet connectivity i think we are fortunate to have you know internet

ammunitions into kenya you know from the rest of the world which means that you know we do have access to the red connectivity to europe that connectivity to china for example but you know with that definitely the question is how do you market this internet even to go to the most rural part of the country with the youth i think now and in addition to connectivity you know access to infrastructure you know the likes of the playstation or the. you know kenya being of course not only turn country you know we do have the benefit of getting people from other countries which means that you know based on exposure you've been able to learn what other people in other markets are doing. so we would see in their right of east what local you know now we do have communities you know like tekken community city community people community. and also just you know the question is how are people

getting into is what you know now with the cost of data becoming sort of all us through the question of how do people get access to the devices so we do our you know before internet was accessible i'm you know we used to go to a cyber cafe else but interestingly this have now turned into gaming which means that you know of about 100 about a dollop you can get access to a play station if one hour and then you know this is where people are practicing but also just a comment on the chair you know it's nice that we're talking about a chair but how to be able to talk about the play station itself or that is divisive and we still have to challenge that on top of the so. a playstation keep michael example of what it's going to be $500.00 in the u.s. but by the time of the shipping cost and then it. took so you know it probably comes to about double the supply so there's a lot certainly need to you know overcome so that we can get a fairly good look and clean. would just look at me too much muskets you know

mentioning cod at sears and some of our audience who are online right now are actually playing call of duty as we speak thank you for multitasking appreciate that some of the time to pick top or are already being tackled this is much better than he really inspired a lot of this conversation talking about the potential on the african continent and he is absolutely bullish and positive about that have a listen have a look as we continue to make progress on the near term challenges around technology so the availability and affordability of consumer technology and a band with and closing infrastructure gaps we need to have those broader conversations about attracting investments and partnerships and sponsorships so that the east sports vertical industry has an ecosystem to thrive in the talent is obviously here the audience is obviously here the ability to create ip intimate games and to do all the things around these ports is here wife of management is

here so we just need a mechanism or several american isms to connect these very talented communities to the rest of the world and you know you've written yet. there's. a look now. i've made some some good money out of you and you know full well every young star did things that she's whether they're wondering where that is she said to your program i can guarantee you there's so many options like sam mentioned on this rock in east force not just getting so many avenues to explore. i'm just ready at the end lester and provided for my family who took over even 3 my my parents lost their jobs basically so we are really on it in less stress you know giving something back to them for a bigger m 3 i'm going to do a speed round review all because i got some really great responses on each of

jonathan says african games are the next big thing what did he say sam i did maybe without a dance. what else do we have a sound mind given the financial barriers to entry what do you think can be done to bring more people into sports who we are going to take that one. well i'm hopefully going to have some more boredom and stuff that's free to enter explore that way and hopefully ones that offended me easiest so the restrictions will ease us again hopefully we can have more access to you know physical land tournaments again and getting people into enough to compete and give them access to consulate and on top of this but i don't want us to buy things and our equipment so we are basically giving everyone free in the intel adoption into tournament and he sports this is i really like this because this is a little bit of a push back that was a little give this to you very briefly how it says i don't think that africa will

become a dominating force in the future and he said what douglas. so you watch out. or world and to but and to but my comment i mean unfortunately when you look at some of the international law supports competition and you know unfortunately do think global but africa is not included and we've seen a case of an adhesive were you know african ruble to qualify but then when they. go up there and they are asked in a word lou come from and they see africa and touch it really they get disqualified why just because that's a massacre and you know for some who have the means to actually move to europe or more to the u.s. so that they can actually be able to play with our competitors or. watch out we're coming and they're coming with skilled or i do you want to jump in there i mean i just want to quickly say because i feel like i have to defend those i have traveled around the world i've got to comment on some of the best players and i've lost when

you are. i made the players that are driving the fancy sports cars and have all the money and i honestly believe if we put our african players in the same position they could take their mine it's hard for the african press because like do your city needs to help is very you still studying but i honestly think when it comes to the fair and the fighting games we do have players here that are the best in the world and they just need the opportunity to be able to compete with the best in the world were things i wanted to talk about this is what happens a lot in countries that don't have the resources but they have incredible talented young people if they find a work around creative solutions have a listen to say we have a sports and then we have a sports mobile style have a look have a listen. rather than vice the means of some friends in the challenges and that's why for us with mobile gaming as the major strategy started out of the mobile game tom and switches alors and also were on the lead the moment and then the wall

connected series by the little this was our direction with some of the official presenting pop not. really sure that we got the huge potential to deal evil when it comes to response. and here from nigeria championing their mobile gaming scene especially in west africa check out the 1st mobile as i am told of an ever held on the continent thank you for your thoughts on the chip thank you very much appreciate your sad take del right thank you douglas and thank you julio the piece to really appreciate your thoughts. signing off now see you next time on the strong take everybody.

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