South Africa's top Fifa esports athlete Thabo “YvngSavage” Moloi led a star-studded eBafana Bafana team last month with the 18-year-old carrying the team, as the rise of esports continues amid the worldwide lockdown.
The word ‘e-sports’ did not officially exist when South Africa entered the age of democracy in 1994, and still does not exist according to the Collins dictionary, despite its definition having been coined in October 1972.
Fast-forward to 2020 and the worldwide lockdown, which has seen a spike in the number of people taking to online games – specifically, the Fifa football-based video game from Electronic Arts . In 2018, playing in his maiden tournament, Moloi beat more than 500 other gamers to claim the R400 000 prize money.
“In 2017, when I first started watching Fifa competitively, I didn’t have the latest console to practise on,” said Moloi. Take one of Moloi’s opponents in last month’s eNations Cup: Mossad “MSdossary” Aldossary, who hails from Saudi Arabia. A former eWorld Cup champion and a multitournament winner, he has earned more than $550 000 in prize money alone over the past four years, according to esportsearnings.com.
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