Three cities visited. Thousands of kilometres travelled. Almost 200 gamers seen and met. One country. Not a lot of sleep.
This was El33tonline’s South African Gaming Tour, where we were on a mission to attend four separate gaming events taking place in the space of a single week across the country, all in an effort to meet with our fellow gamers, spread the word of El33tonline and dish out awesome prizes.
Mission accomplished.
Durban: DBNGamers Event
First up was the second ever meet-up of DBNGamers’ (in Durban, naturally) on the Saturday of January 14th, where sixteen like-minded individuals got together over pizza and drinks to talk games.
You can read El33tonline’s full report on that gathering over here, but be sure to follow DBNGamers on Twitter and Facebook to keep tabs on future meet-ups.
Johannesburg: JHBGamers Event
Next was the JHBGamers event on the Wednesday of January 18th, attended by EA South Africa and EA Australia’s Brad Pidgeon… and El33tonline of course!
We gathered at a great restaurant called TGS Fourways where we got to meet some terrific fellows and fellowettes, before Lisa’s excellent presentation filled everyone in on who and what El33tonline is. Then, we gave away fantastic prizes sponsored by Afrihost and EA!
El33tonline’s full write-up of the JHBGamers event is coming soon, but you should definitely keep up with the group on Twitter and Facebook to make sure you don’t miss future events.
Cape Town: CPTGamers Event
The following day, on January 19th, Lisa and I were in Cape Town to attend the latest edition of the CPTGamers’ meet-up, this time at Braza in Canal Walk. This gathering was a nice, casual affair with regular attendees including Grant Hinds (MWEB Gamezone) and Dumidu Surasinghe (OneLargePrawn), while EA South Africa and Brad Pidgeon made another appearance.
We’ll also be talking more about this get-together soon, so stay tuned.
Cape Town: 2upGamers Third Encounter Event
Last, and certainly not least, was 2upGamers’ Third Encounter event on Friday, January 20th, where over 100 gamers gathered to hear EA’s Brad Pidgeon, as well as TakeALot’s Andrew Royal, speak about their respective communities and how they’re appealing to the gamers to help improve and evolve.
Again, El33tonline will be covering Third Encounter in much more detail very soon with tons of photos from the event, but for now, head on over to 2upGamers’ Twitter and Facebook pages to keep clued in on upcoming gatherings.
Lisa and I were also excited to finally meet our fellow online gamers who jump into Gears of War Wednesdays and Battlefield Fridays with us, so here’s a quick snap of the group - more to come:
El33tonline’s tour of South Africa and our visits to each of the events in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town were a complete success and we enjoyed every second of it - keep an eye out for our coverage of the meet-ups soon!
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Comments:
Wow, you guys were really busy! Nice seeing Lisa again and meeting Oliver
GAME KOPPE UNITE. Was friggin awesome meeting LISA and OLIVER and of course the guys is play online with. EPICglotis i say... EPICglotis
hahahah @square, should have a xbox gaming night some time
Awesome seeing you guys again. t's always great chatting about the future of gaming in SA. Hope to see you guys down here soon.
may the game koppe be with you lol
was awesome, would have loved to be at the 2upgamers and JHBGamers event. Sometime this year I will be at them all. Frag you guys online. Now I know where all the BF3 Friday gamers were.....lol
Busy team was indeed busy!
Damn who knew the guys I play Gears 3 are so hardcore looking! ;) did they model the Gears 3 characters after you guys?
bit darker and then id be cole :D
@Beanibility - thats where i got my name from but with a twist LOL
Macdeath - We play on Hardcore as well and sometimes we insane also LOL
@BEANS - i think we gonna need s double story for all the guys. that wasnt even everyone in the pic
wow that was an awesome night, it was nice meeting all the gamers there, specially those who i bust games with on xbox live. oh and thanks Lisa and Oliver for the Mario Prize :)
@Bro Did they give you something special for claiming my tags?? or is that reward enough??
Would like to meet you all.....soon we will have the chance to meet. soon I tell you soon. I think El33t will even bring me there......wink wink
Every picture I see myself in, my head is facing to the floor... XD #BlackBerry...
hahaha gaaty, to bad i couldnt take you on in gears, i had some motivation (alcohol) in me... wanted to win bf 3 :( but i was to late, still dont see how i can arrive two hours later then gaaty and i live 20k away from town and finish work at 1.30... dudes running a real life hack
Was awesome meeting some new p33ps and catching up with the friends we made last time - looking forward to our next trip. Rock on guys, you're awesome!
PS. POItjie, I know what your secret is...sshhh!
Thank you again Lisa and Oliver for joining us here in Cape town and also thanks for the Mario land cup and hoodie.@ Poitjie i almost got Bro's dogtag last night but almost like in the movies one of his friends jump in front of him and i took his tag saving Bro's tag. LUCKY BUGGER!!!
@Lisa what secret?? *looks around all nervously........
@Fullmetal That the only issue getting his tags....there is always someone in the way. Me and Smuroh was actually thinking of making "REAL" dog tags of our BF3 Dogtags and then give a challenge for one day only and send that person a real version of it......silly I know....that's how big we into BF3....
Its really cool to see more and more gamers coming up to these events, hopefully we can eventually join in all of them.
Did you guys see....DBNGamers is giving away a copy of Mass Effect 2 PC and Batman Arkham City Keychains on twitter and on facebook......go enter now if oyu want.