CLARION GAMING POSTPONES ICE AFRICA 2021 AS GLOBAL COVID-19 CRISIS CONTINUES

Clarion Gaming has confirmed the postponement of the 2021 edition of ICE Africa, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

The event had been scheduled for 26-28 October, but with the crisis deepening in many countries and continued travel restrictions, organisers have decided to delay the event. 

Explaining the decision, Clarion Gaming managing director, Stuart Hunter, said: “When the full scale of the pandemic became clear last year we took the decision to focus our resources and energies into three in-person events – the co-located ICE London and iGB Affiliate London, as well as iGB Live! in Amsterdam.

“Whilst we are not holding any other dedicated in-person events, we are launching ICE365.com, an advanced global gaming platform which goes live in April 2021. The ICE 365 content series will focus on key verticals, topics and subsets of the global gaming sector and will include dedicated Africa-focused content throughout the year.”

AYO.NEWS says:

As we’ve previously explained, despite the mass media hype about the vaccination programs, this crisis is a long way from over, and the measures taken to combat the virus (lockdowns and vaccines) may actually have made the situation infinitely worse – creating a nightmare scenario where we’ve gone from battling one relatively mild virus to dozens of increasingly dangerous variants. 

Given this, Clarion Gaming are clearly taking the only responsible course of action.