There was a spectator area, a DJ playing music, 20 large plasma screens for the 150 spectators to watch the action, a live stream, commentators and HLTV. The event, however, did have some hiccups which were thankfully rectified.

Last week we reported that a female team would be playing versus a guy team in South Africa in a battle of the sexes. The all-star North American female team, playing under the tag PMS, consisted of Stephanie 'missharvey' Harvey, Christine 'potter' Chi, Izabel 'izabeL' Joanisse, Catherine 'CaTh' Leroux-Racette and Dimitra 'd1m' Deliopoulos and headed by Amber 'AthenaTwin' Dalton, faced the male team of Bravado Gaming.

South Africa as a whole is hindered by it's internet. At the event, the only connection available was wireless internet, known as iBurst, which is very unstable. The HLTV, although only having few spectators, was extremely laggy and almost unwatchable. The same connection was being used to run Steam, due to the offline version not being used, and thus resulted in many Steam ticket errors, which happened to different players almost every round. The organisers did, however, manage to organise a LAN version of CS on which to host the server, thus allowing the teams to play without interruption.

The first map, de_nuke, had many Steam Authentication ticket errors which caused much grief among the players and ended up making the result null and void. The players, now playing on the error-free server, decided to play de_inferno as a winner-takes-all map. Bravado started on Counter-Terrorist, taking a comfortable 10-5 lead and finishing off the game with 6-3 as Terrorists over Pandora's Mighty Soldiers.

The event was a good warm up for the male team, Bravado Gaming, who will be competing against SK Gaming in an exhibition match next weekend, Sunday the 7th of December, at the AfriCon event to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. You can find out more about the team here.

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