Colin Webster, MSSA President, says that while the team couldn’t be awarded Protea Colours as the competition didn’t allow for all the criteria to be met, they have received National Federation Colours and will be an official South African team.
 
“Clan FiB performed very well in the competition, winning all their rounds except one against Clan ASF. We’ve got a strong set of Battlefield 3 players in Team South Africa to represent us at the Nations Cup and we wish them the best of luck.
 
“MSSA would also like to give special thanks to MWEB GameZone for hosting the competition on their Battlefield 3 servers at such short notice, after Clanbase on Friday confirmed we had two only days to enter a South African team,” says Webster.
 
The fifteenth Clanbase NationsCup 2012 has drawn 24 qualifying teams from 39 competing countries to play in the Battlefield 3 competition.
 
Starting on 23 January, the event will kick off with four groups of six teams, where the top three in each will advance. Fourteen national teams are already qualified for the group stage, with other national teams competing for the last ten slots.

The group stage will kick off on 30 January with Team South Africa, in Group C, competing with the following nations: Australia, Belgium, Finland, Portugal and Russia.
 
MWEB GameZone will be supporting the official South African National Team  preparations by providing them with their own Battlefield 3 Clan server, a practice server in the UK, as well as a Teamspeak server for the duration of the NationsCup to enable communication between the players.
 
Desmond Kurz, MWEB online gaming manager says: “GameZone wants to help South African gamers compete on the international stage, so we will continue to work closely with MSSA to get more teams involved in the other games offered for the NationsCup. Hopefully, we can have an even bigger national representation next year.”
 
The full groups line-up can be found here: http://clanbase.ggl.com/news_league.php?nid=366218&lid=12516. You can also follow Team SA by visiting the MWEB Gamezone site on http://www.mweb.co.za/games, where reports will be posted on the matches played.
 
The 12 members of the South African team all come from Clan FiB  and are:

FiBlAssassin – AJ Herbst – player
lFiBlBloodSlug – Chris Hart – Vice Leader
lFiBlChaotic – Helgard van Rooyen
lFiBlCrincler – Daniel Towse – player
lFiBlCromedome – Kyle Burton – player
lFiBlJalgorty – Ricky Schlenk – player
lFiBlLt-Mat – Matt Lennox – player
lFiBlPeStil3nc3 – Reinhardt van Rooyen – BF3 Team Captain
lFiBlSabrefox91o – Renier van Rooyen – player
lFiBlVermaak – MJ Vermaak – Leader
lFiBlZaarehs – Sheraaz Nunnian – player
lFiBlEasyKill – Riaan Vrey – Manager