Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

As you all know we LOVE to hear stories from our teams around the world. They excite us, they give us an insight into the playing scenes that differ slightly from country to country and we especially like to hear from teams who we've supported for long periods of time when they start to come of age, so to speak. One such team is South Africa's Brutal Affliction who have been working tirelessly to achieve a very specific goal. A goal that they reached very recently. In a nutshell, over the past 8+ years only two teams in South Africa have won every single "pro" tournament. Dynamics and Reapers. These two teams have dominated the country over the years and no other team has really come close to touching them. 
Over the last 3 years (since 2015), Brutal Affliction have been knocking on the doors of the "champs", knowing they have the talent and ability to be up there with the best, something no one has done yet and finally, they did it. Brutal took a first ...

We recently caught up with one of South Africa's future star teams, Brutal Affliction, who recently played the second leg of the SARPL 5-man series. They had this to say: Armed with the CS-1 and awesome new Jerseys we went out hard and made a name for ourselves once again. Playing through the preliminary round, losing only one game 1-0, we qualified to move straight into the finals, which unfortunately didn't go our way, ending up 2nd for the event.  This is actually a great feat for the team, with both events this year ending 2nd, it changes the norm in the country and making everyone realise there is a new contender in the league. From everyone at Brutal Affliction, we'd like to thank Planet Eclipse for their amazing support and confidence in us to put Planet back on top of the league in South Africa. There is only one direction for the team and that is up. We love hearing from our teams and seeing their progression up the ranks as t...