A brief overview of the Organised Chaos & OGA Meet-up

Recently we heard news about Organised Chaos (a huge lan in Cape Town) ‘teaming’ up with Mind Sports South Africa. The news came when Organised Chaos created their own association called OGA – Organised Gamers Association. After hearing about the affiliation between OC and MSSA, many players were upset and decided to voice their opinions online.

OC decided to host a conference/meeting about this earlier tonight. The OC crew urged all players, clans and members of both, the LAN event and the OGA to attend.

eGamer decided to attend the meeting, along with the well-informed industry roleplayer, some of the Warcraft 3 Twilight admins, a couple of Bravado players, a player from Call of Duty 4, a dude that hosts his own 8 – 32 player lans, Alcardu, and of course Cyrus – the MSSA representative.

To be honest, the turn out was poor, and this was stated during the meeting as everyone thought that more people would be there.

So moving on, we get to the meeting. It started off with everyone being seated and receiving a document stating a few things about the affiliation.

After a question about the OGA being separate from the MSSA was asked, we were told that they were two different entities, but they were just in affiliation. However when well-informed industry roleplayer pointed out something in their document which stated that the OGA was actually a part of the MSSA, the OC hosts started to realise that maybe the MSSA isn’t actually that great for gaming, at the this point in time.

After a few more questions from the well-informed industry roleplayer, we were told that the document was only a rough draft. This being said, the OC crew were open to other comments and suggestions.

After a range of questions from a CoD4 player were asked, the MSSA fanboi representative was called up for some Q & A. He could only really answer the questions by saying, and I quote, “yes”. After this, the host of the meeting received a call from the MSSA president himself. The call was ignored as we were busy, but someone did phone back to ask what’s up.

Although we didn’t hear what the MSSA president had to say, we still decided to moved on. As a side note who does the president actually think he is to stop a meeting by means of a phone call? Surely he should realise that we are busy, and that the MSSA does not run everything.

After support from various communities to drop the MSSA name and affiliation, the OC guys to started to agree with everyone. At first it seemed as if they were very pro-MSSA, but as people started to voice their opinion about the MSSA, the OC guys decided that they will look into the matter.

Players in attendance brought up the question of what is the actual point of SA colours, and why not just offer a LAN or qualifier where players can get sent overseas, as many players’ do not actually care about the colours, as they just want to play overseas, with or without representing a country. Pretty much all of the teams in the world already play under a team name and not under a country name, so why should we be different? Why should we be forced to play under rules which are horrible, rules which bind you and pretty much steal your freedom.

After many more questions, and stories being thrown around, everyone in attendance agreed that the OC should try their own way, and not just use the MSSA to get somewhere. The OC crew agreed with this, and they said they will scrap the MSSA and try their own way.

If OC does decide to try their own way, they will have eGamer’s full support, along with that of the Twilight Warcraft 3 server, and most probably various other communities who just want change, change which will consist a more competitive gaming community which is pretty much run by the right people.

For many years gamers in South Africa have had freedom, why should we all be bound to rules set by people that have never played games competitively, or people that frankly do not know whats going on in the community.

When the whole formal part was over, a few of us stayed to chat to the OC guys, we told them that we are more than happy to help with creating a new, better community where everyone has the chance to have a say. The OC crew were very keen, and they said that the MSSA is gone, and they will scrap them.

To be honest, the OC is better off without the MSSA, and with the creation of the OGA which is a non-profit organisation for gaming which will no longer be attached to the MSSA, we can say that this is a really, really good start.

* Side note: After I released this, someone told me that OC would not simply ‘scrap’ the MSSA, but they would look into it. However, after the meeting a few of us stayed behind to chat to the guys, and Dietmar (lan organiser) said that it was gone, they would scrap it. I have added this little piece to avoid any confusion to those that did not hear that little conversation afterwards.