Top cyber player hails from Paarl
2005-10-20
David Joshua
OFF to Singapore, to represent South Africa as part of a team of five at the finals of the World Cyber Games in mid-November, is Tamaryn Brooke-Smith (15) of Paarl.
Tamaryn, who specialises in the cyber game “Chopper Rescue” , is the only junior member of the team going to Singapore, and the only female.
In fact she was the only girl out of 4500 participants in the Exactmobile Cyber Game Finals that were held at Four Ways Mall, Johannesburg last week, where she represented the Western Cape. She won by scoring a gigantic 80 000 points - the runner-up scored 7 000!
The other games in which participants could compete, were “Bruce Lee”, “Goolie”, and “Midtown Madness”, on cellphone or PC.
On 16 November, she will depart with four team members to the World Cyber Games in Singapore, after receiving her Samsung cellphone from one of the sponsors.
Says mother Brooke, “Tamaryn is a sporting type of girl, for she already received a black belt in Karate and Aikido at the age of nine.
“When she was ten, she was SA Karate champion for the under 18’s. She broke her ankle not so long ago and for a while retired from the sport”.
Meanwhile Tamaryn has created a website, “geocities.com/paarlcorps” for The Salvation Army.
She also has her feet firmly on the ground where her schoolwork is concerned, playing Chopper Rescue only after homework and study, from 20:00 till midnight!
Says Tamaryn, “In the beginning I had a hard time getting accustomed to the Afrikaans medium and it had a rather detrimental effect on my Accountancy marks, which dropped to 43%. But My Life Orientation marks of 90% covered me”.
She plans to either become a computer game designer or a pilot, and features in the next issue of Exactmobile magazine.
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