Let the battle begin

Gimmies gets a new gaming centre
Mariselle Stofberg
Carlé Potgieter

The gaming center at Windhoek Gymnasium is something totally new and unheard of. Only a limited number of students know about it. Those students are none other than the grade eights. The first and only time learners heard about it was when we had our iPad training with Mr. Mark Rosemann.

Rosemann had made the exciting announcement that Windhoek Gymnasium will have their own gaming club. The gaming club will be in the new A block extension currently under construction. The gaming center will be able to accommodate about thirty students at a time. They will be able to play online or multiplayer games. The games will be chosen at a later time. The gaming center will be up and running in 2020.

In the afternoons the gaming center would be open for students to participate, but like all activities there will be supervision and only specific times you may come to play. When the time comes that the buildings are finished, a network would be set up and times would be arranged for who may play when. It may even be that learners can bring their own gaming consoles and PC’s and in that way students can participate on their own equipment. This might make Windhoek Gymnasium the first school in Namibia to attract students because of gaming.

Students can also look forward to competitions against other schools. The management plans to compete against other Curro schools. Maybe somewhere in the distant future Windhoek Gymnasium will not only be known as a school excelling in academics and sport but as a gaming school or an E-sport school.

Liané Visser, a grade 8 learner said that she is excited about the prospects of a gaming center. "I expect the gaming club to be fun and that it is a place where you can show your passion for gaming." The and games she would like to play are Black ops, Fortnight, PupG, Battlefield and Call Of Duty.

A grade 9 learner, Derrek Retief, said that he expects a different Wi-Fi for the gaming and air conditioning. “Games that I would like to play includes Fortnight, Minecraft, Call Of Duty, Overwatch and Black Ops.”

The management has high hopes for the gaming center and evidently so do the students.