2012 has been a good year for women involved in Mind Sports South Africa.
Lyrene Kühn and Gabriela Isaacs were selected to represent South Africa as members of the GIGABYTE™ Protea eSports Team for the 2012 IeSF World Championships in South Korea. At such championships, Isaacs finished in second place and Kühn finished in a very credible fourth place against very stiff international competition. The result was truly remarkable from the point of view that both Gabriela and Irene had never before participated at an international championship.
On 8 December 2012, Kühn entered the SA National Championships. While females and males play in separate championships in international championships, in South Africa both men and women play off against each other. Notwithstanding the fierce competitiveness in SA gaming, Kühn still dazzled all the gamers to finish in a very solid second place to only be beaten by Johannes Botma of Bloemfontein.
Not only did Kühn do well, but Kristen Bishop (Wits University) also shone. The two women forced all of the men (other than Botma) out of the medals to take second and third places respectively. The strength of female South African gamers seems to be thus assured.
Thus it was hardly surprising that at the MSSA’s Annual General Meeting, the entire meeting, with seemingly one voice, voted to award Kṻhn the title of 2012 Best Newcomer of the Year and Isaacs as the 2012 eSports Gamer of the Year.
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