eLION – Tech | Business | Economy https://techeconomy.ng Tech | Business | Economy Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:37:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://techeconomy.ng/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-256Px-32x32.png eLION – Tech | Business | Economy https://techeconomy.ng 32 32 Senegal Secures Qualification to Global eSports Games RIYADH 2023 https://techeconomy.ng/senegal-secures-qualification-to-global-esports-games-riyadh-2023/ https://techeconomy.ng/senegal-secures-qualification-to-global-esports-games-riyadh-2023/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:37:38 +0000 https://techeconomy.ng/?p=115464 On 07 October 2023, Senegalese eLION, eGAÏNDÉ BAKSON, whose real name is Amadou Bakary Diop, completed a champion’s journey on the SF6 title, better known to fans as Street Fighter 6.

Indeed, Bakson, Captain of Senegal’s National eSport team on Street Fighter 6, has just done extremely well in the African regional qualifiers for the Global eSports Games to be held in Riyadh in December 2023.

Below are the scores from African Group A:

Matches:

  • Senegal 1-2 Kenya
  • Senegal 2-1 Ghana
  • Senegal 2-1 Algeria
  • Senegal 2-0 Somalia
  • Senegal 2-0 Djibouti

Play Offs

  • Senegal 2-0 South Africa
  • Senegal 2-0 Zambia
Senegal eSports qualifiers
Senegal eSports qualifiers

Senegal, through the Senegalese Federation of Electronic Games and Immersive Sports (Fédération Sénégalaise des Jeux Électroniques et Sports Immersifs), currently the National Committee for the Promotion of E-Sport (Comité National de Promotion du E-Sport), congratulates itself on the victory of the National E-Sport team over Street Fighter, represented by its captain Bakson, thus enabling the country to secure its first qualification for the world championships (Global Esport Games 2023) to be held in Riyadh in December 2023.

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