Oops. I was meant to do something on this last night, but while browsing the site I had to go for emergency eye surgery. Take a guess why. Here’s a hint: the site of it literally burnt.

Recently, we ran into a little bit of trouble with ZootFly — so I’ll try keep on track by being nice.

Ventus Gaming — a brand new MGO has arrived in South Africa. They apparently formed in October 2009, however we were totally oblivious to this. They officially blasted onto the gaming scene a few days ago, scarring retina’s nationwide.

Ventus means wind, in latin — but it also seems to match the surname of its leader Pieter Venter, who goes by the name Cyrus.

The new MGO has teams for DotA, HoN, Guitar Hero, Fifa 10, Quake Live and Counter Strike.

The DotA team is previously known as tankh, and they seemed to have jumped onto the sponsorship wagon, which is pretty nifty for a DotA team — seeing as all sponsors seem to hate DotA.

Cyrus has said that this is the first team to launch with sponsors, and they are pretty excited about it. He plans to make the team succeed by using his previous knowledge from XploIT, a previously failed MGO.

Check out their *cringe* site, for more.

The teams:

Guitar Hero

• Mark ‘DarthPenguin’ Dennison

Fifa 10

• Matthew ‘Cheezy’ Bosch

Quake Live

• Henk ‘Adrenalin’ Boshoff
• Micele ‘Szarko’ Aleksandrov
• Robert ‘Draven’ Szlanina

Counter Strike

• Connor ‘KING’ Laming
• Dean ‘HackeM’ Seyfried
• Jandrey ‘JiN’ Venter
• Marco ‘Lost’ Fourie
• Marchant ‘StripflOw’ Laauwen

DotA

• Anthony ‘scant’ Hodgson
• Mike ‘nakor’ Jones
• Wessel ‘Freez’ Louwrens
• Gerrit ‘Death’ Willigenburg
• Liang ‘Kspr’ Cai

HoN – Previous known as Kai

• Sakkie ‘RandomHero’ Basson (Captain)
• Mark ‘iLLuSioN’ Woodland
• Nicholas ‘Prodegy’ Bowler
• Justin ‘smke ‘ Probyn
• Riaan ‘azN_DoMz’ Visser

Similar to Bravado-Gaming, Ventus are planning to grow e-Sports in South Africa. They have already received a few sponsorships for their efforts and this includes:

• Web Africa: 11x Unshaped accounts with 12GB each.
• Cooler Master: 5x Cosmos Sport Chassis valued at R2200 each, 5x Hyper212plus fans, 5x 1100W
• Samsung: 5x Samsung XL2370 HD 23″ TFT LCD Screens. (In association with Rectron)

On a side note: Looks like something from the ’90s.

Okay so it’s not actually called the Pew Pew Cup, it’s the miNt Quake Live Cup or miNt Cup for short. However at eGamer, we’ve decided to call it the PewPew Cup, because Quake Live is all about the Pew Pew.

What you need to know:

• Is it’s duel (1v1 for the noobs out there)
• Each round will be best of 3 matches
• Each match will last 10 minutes
• Players will be divided into 3 Divisions; Ph4nt0m;Pros;Amateurs (Kidding it’s 2 Divisions)
• Map choices – QzDm13,QzDm6,ztnTourney1, QzTourney7,QzTourney7
• Stage 1 starts 1st March 6pm

The players

Predictions? Well it’s going to be a 1, 2 finish between Shase and Phnt0m no doubt with d3ad3r coming a close 3rd.

For more info check out miNt gaming’s website. Registration’s close 27/02 and according to to miNt-SilencE, the organiser, there are no player limits.

FB Out!

Incredible Connection will kick 2010 off with a new One Night Cup series. The league will boast an Afrihost partnership which sees prizing in the form of 5GB prepaid ADSL accounts for first place, and 3GB ADSL prepaid accounts for second place, per player, per team.

The competition takes place on the 31st of January and it will involve Call of Duty 4 teams. The registration opens on the 25th of January for these teams, and there are only 19 slots available. The league structure will see 16 official teams where 3 will be substitutes in case players drop out.

Following the CoD4 Cup will be a Quake Live Duel Tournament. The QL tournament will allow for 32 players to be accepted into a best of 3 single elimination format tournament. The first place winners will receive 5GB ADSL accounts, while second place holders will receive 3GB accounts. This competition will take place on the 14th of February.

Incredible is hoping to then host another competition after this, it will involve an undecided/unannounced game. qu1ksh0t, the host, is planning to do something with Counter Strike Source, however these teams are really bad at signing up for events. So, CSS players, if you’re keen email qu1k@incredible.co.za to pre-book your spot.

You can also email qu1k@incredible.co.za for additional information on the tournament.

Quake Live, the web-based shooter based on Quake 3 has been roaming around the community for quite some time now. The game is really awesome, and I won’t lie, some of us just can’t get enough of it. Anyway, we’re not really here to ramble about us, as there seems to be some major scandal in the local community.

DoGaming recently contacted us about information on cheating. Yeah - cheating in our own damn community!

The cheater, or accused cheater, is known as Rapts — the leader of NDC, South Africa’s oldest team.

We’ve included the DoGaming article below. Visit DoGaming here to read it on their site.

Jerri ‘Rapts’ Mperdempes has been accused of cheating by very high ranking members of the Quake Live community, who have claimed that his accuracy was well above where his levels actually were and that he was using software to see through walls.

Over a month ago, Garth ‘Garth’ Jones and Micele ‘Szarko’ Aleksandrov (also known by the nick ‘Azul’) started watching Mperdempes play Quake Live, and took an interest in his style saying there was something “wrong” in the way he played.

Aleksandrov has posted a clip saying he spectated Mperdempes games and recorded them. This video can be seen here.

The argument is, however, a complex one. Aleksandrov used a command available in replays enabling him to see the player opposite to the player he was spectating, which he says is Mperdempes. Aleksandrov and Jones maintain that when looking at Mperdempes gameplay in this format, they can draw the conclusion that the player being spectated is using a wall hack.

Mperdempes has confirmed that the clip posted on Youtube is him playing. However he denies ever using the wall hack and maintains his kills are legitimate.

“This is simply part of a smear campaign by various members of the community,” he says.

Jones and Aleksandrov are convinced that the accused is using an Aimbot as well as wall hacks, which would allow Mperdempes to have an almost unbelievable accuracy. To offset the accuracy in accordance with the Quake Live online statistics, they claim Mperdempes would apparently shoot randomly at walls to lower his accuracy rate and modify the accuracy of the Aimbot.

“He has poor mouse control, but when he takes out his Lightning Gun (LG), he would almost lock on to players and be insanely accurate,” says Aleksandrov. “He has been around the game for something like 10 years, just like us, so he would obviously know to shoot randomly to offset his accuracy.”

Travis “Shase” Weedon, who recently competed at Dreamhack in a Quake Live tournament in Sweden, has left the NDC clan because he says he doesn’t want to associate himself with cheating. Weedon posted the Youtube clip in the Quake Live channel on IRC in the channel topic.

However, Mperdempes says no member of NDC had confirmed to him that they were leaving the clan.

Unfortunately, even Aleksandrov and Jones admit that no player can prove irrefutably that Mperdempes is cheating. It is simply the judgement of senior Quake Live players that he is cheating, in their opinion. Both Aleksandrov and Jones, both having played in CPL competitions, are convinced of the fact that he is cheating and claim Mperdempes has brought the entire NDC clan into disrepute.

“It’s just disrespectful. Plain and simple. It’s disrespectful to your opponents and your team mates. The guy is cheating and he leads a clan like NDC that has been around for a decade, which consists of respected players from the community,” Aleksandrov claims. He went on to say he will notify ID on their forums of his belief that Mperdempes is cheating and will list two accounts he believes Mperdempes plays on.

Mperdempes says he does not understand why he is being targeted. He says the players accusing him are better than he is anyway and with stats of 159 wins and 179 losses, according to his Quake Live profile, he is not even breaking even yet. His accuracy is listed at 28 percent.

His lightning gun is listed at 27 percent and his railgun at 53 percent (his two most used guns). Mperdempes’ highest accuracy is with the shotgun where he has a 78 percent accuracy rate.

Comparing the other two players same stats: Aleksandrov has a win record of 625 wins and 70 losses on Quake Live. His accuracy is listed at 27 percent. His lightning gun accuracy is 30 percent and his rail gun accuracy is 40 percent. He also has an accuracy of 78 percent with the shotgun.

Jones has 162 wins and 174 losses. His accuracy is listed at 29 percent. He has a lightning gun accuracy of 29 percent and a railgun accuracy of 39 percent. His highest accuracy is also with the shotgun with an accuracy of 80 percent.

Mperdempes’ railgun statistic seems to be the most surprising compared to that of Aleksandrov and Jones. Furthermore, it can be compared to the railgun statistic of Weedon (44 percent) and Stephen “Ph4ntom” Cloete (43 percent).

Mperdempes took over the leadership of NDC in 1998. He says the clan went quiet on the First Person Shooter front around two years ago after Quake 3 started to die down. However, when Quake Live came along he started to play the game and recruited players like Weedon and Cloete.

“I’ve always stuck to what I am good at: recognising the potential in players and managing players. NDC was a platform to allow players to be competitive, and there was a lot of resentment against NDC when I recruited players like Weedon and Cloete,” he says.

Mperdempes says he is “over this” (the accusations) and lists this current incident as the “cherry on the top” in a long list of smear campaigns against NDC.

It is hoped the Quake Live community will be able to work the issue out, and grow a game which has only recently begun to grow in popularity as players have been able to play on local servers with good ping times.

Following the comments on DoGaming, Vitrolic posted a few accuracy states to back up the cheating allegations.

Rail Accuracies
DaHang: 45%
Rapha: 45%
Cooller: 47%
NDC Rapts: 53%

For those unfamiliar with NDC and Quake: NDC has been around for years, and they are probably the oldest clan around. They are home to many of the top local players which attend overseas events.

The article above is very informative, however there were a few things that made me smile and ask, WTF? For instance, “Mperdempes says he is “over this” (the accusations) and lists this current incident as the “cherry on the top” in a long list of smear campaigns against NDC.”

Why would someone start smear campaigns against NDC? What’s the point, they are the best, they have the best. There is nothing that people can do about it. I highly doubt that this is one big conspiracy aimed at breaking the team down.

Anyway — one cheater down. Who’s next?

[via DoGaming]