Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner to host Telkom DGL Masters Final

One of the world’s foremost e-sports "shoutcasters" will be on stage hosting the Telkom Digital Gaming League Masters Final this weekend as eight teams battle it out for the R1-million prize pool at the rAge gaming and technology expo in Johannesburg.

The final kicks off with the first set of matches on Friday October 7 at the expo.

It will comprise two tournaments, with both Counter-Strike and Dota 2 played at the expo. The eight multi-gaming organisations (MGOs) taking part are fielding different teams for the two games.

The teams from each of the eight MGOs will compete for R1-million, which is South Africa’s largest e-sports cash prize pool to date.

Paul “ReDeYe” Chaloner, one of the world’s foremost e-sports shoutcasters, will be in Johannesburg to host the Masters Final. He will be joined by well-known local e-sport commentators for the weekend.

The Telkom Digital Gaming League tournament line-up and broadcasting talent for the Masters Final at rAge is as follows:

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Barry “Anthrax” Louzada (desk host)
Michael “Axtremes” Harmse (commentator)
Nathaneal “BurningRed” Slabbert (commentator)
Adam “Wham” Postepski (commentator)
Matt “Haze” Stott (Commentator)

Dota 2

Nicholas “WilsonXXXL” Marsicano (desk host)
Jackie “Rainz” Chung (analyst)
Devin “HellbirD” Rigotti (commentator)
Shaun “Profeci” Murrell (commentator)
Jonathan “Jubba” Simon (commentator)
Sean “Snare” Rihlamvu (commentator)

The line-up for the weekend’s games is as follows, with the tournament using a knock-out game structure:

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Dota 2

The MGOs competing at Masters level are:

• Aperture Gaming
• Bravado Gaming
• CarboN eSports
• Damage Control
• Flipsid3 Tactics South Africa
• Veneration E-Sports
• White Rabbit Gaming
• Xperts@Total.Chaos                     

Keep an eye out for live-streams of the games via TimesLIVE.co.za or watch on www.youtube.com/c/TelkomGaming/live.