A home for South African gaming.

Cinga eSports brings tournaments, places to play, local stories and access opportunities into one clear national platform.

ClientCinga eSports
Our roleBrand, platform and campaigns
ScopeIdentity, platform design and build, content system
SectorGaming and esports
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Access was the problem, not talent.

Cinga eSports set out to become South Africa's platform for gaming culture and tournament discovery. Tournaments, venues and events were scattered across social platforms, organiser pages and informal channels, leaving players without one dependable place to find where to compete or where to play.

Local energy. Built to publish.

A high-contrast identity designed to hold up across a feed, a tournament bracket and a venue wall. Confident red and yellow, near-black foundations and a flexible graphic language give the team a system it can use every day.

Red#E02B2B
Yellow#FFD400
Ink#141414
Paper#FFFFFF
Cinga eSports key art with the red wordmark, a trophy and a controller on a podium over a map of South Africa
Key art carrying the identity into launch campaigns

Five clear ways into the scene.

One mobile-first product, structured around the jobs players, organisers and partners need to complete quickly. The design system scales from long-form discovery to quick mobile scanning without losing hierarchy or the next useful action.

Tournament Radar

A structured, filterable directory of tournaments worth entering.

Play Spots

Places to play across the country, from premium arenas to kasi hubs.

Cinga Events

First-party tournaments and community activations.

Culture

Local coverage of the scene, in its own voice.

Access Activations

A credible route for partners into gaming communities.

Cinga eSports Play Spots page on a laptop, helping players find places to play near them
Play Spots finder
Cinga eSports partner section and Tournament Radar alerts sign-up on a laptop
Partners and Radar alerts
Cinga eSports Ready to press start call to action in yellow on a laptop
Ready to press start

One system, many publishing moments.

News covers, tournament listings, event articles, social posts and announcements share one structure, so the team can publish at pace while every format still feels unmistakably Cinga.

The same system carries partner activations, from sponsored tournaments and community gaming days to Play Spot campaigns.

Cinga eSports Play Spots social media campaign artwork
Play Spots campaign
Cinga eSports social campaign artwork presented across a phone and promotional cards
Tournament and event social formats

A national platform, built to perform.

63 → 81mobile PageSpeed score after optimisation
16.1s → 3.5slargest contentful paint on mobile
20MB → 2MBtotal image weight, now under 2MB

Cinga launched as a structured home for South African gaming: five ways into the platform, a founding Play Spots directory across eight provinces, local editorial and a credible route for partners, all under one brand.

Performance figures from SBT20's optimisation record, measured before and after.