CHAMPSGY rolling out local sports digital database

May 26, 2026 Sports

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana has never lacked sporting talent. From football pitches in Georgetown to cricket grounds in Berbice, to emerging esports arenas, the country continues to produce athletes defined by natural ability, discipline, and passion.

However, what has been missing is not talent, but structure. CHAMPSGY is being built to change that.

CHAMPSGY is envisioned as Guyana’s digital home for sport and esports. It is being developed as a single platform where athletes have verified profiles, clubs maintain official pages, tournaments are properly documented, and sponsors gain long-term visibility within the sporting ecosystem.

CHAMPSGY rolling out local sports digital database

CHAMPSGY founder, Dwayne Bess

The goal is simple but significant: ensure that what happens on the field, court, or screen does not disappear once the final whistle blows.

For many athletes in Guyana, that disappearance has long been the reality. A young footballer may spend years training, competing, and representing his community, only for his journey to fade when the season ends. There is often no permanent record, no centralized statistics, and no digital profile capturing what was achieved.

This issue stretches across multiple sports including cricket, basketball, swimming, cycling, chess, and esports. While talent has consistently existed, the systems needed to document and preserve that talent have not kept pace.

At the end of competitions, records are often scattered across WhatsApp messages, outdated spreadsheets, or temporary social media posts. Clubs move on to the next season, federations prepare new calendars, and athletes are left with memories instead of measurable history.

Sponsors face a similar problem, with visibility that ends as soon as an event concludes, leaving little evidence of sustained impact.

CHAMPSGY is being developed to change this by introducing permanence into a system that has long lacked it.

At the centre of the initiative is founder Dwayne Bess, whose personal journey reflects the very gap the platform is designed to address. Bess’s early academic life was challenging, marked by disciplinary issues and uncertainty about his direction. Sport, however, became the turning point in his development.

He went on to compete nationally in chess, football as a goalkeeper, basketball, and cricket, gaining discipline, focus, and accountability through sport.

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By 2021, when he addressed his graduating class, he described himself as “a national chess participant, a national football player, a possible leader in our society,” and encouraged his peers with the message: “Attempt to outperform yourself.”

Before CHAMPSGY, Bess launched Bess Gaming Tournaments in 2019, helping to structure Guyana’s growing esports community at a time when competitive gaming had talent but lacked formal systems and documentation. In 2024, he established CHAMPS, which later evolved into the CHAMPSGY platform initiative.

His mission is rooted in lived experience. Sport helped redirect his life, and CHAMPSGY is now being built to ensure other athletes and gamers are not lost within the same gaps he once experienced.

The need for CHAMPSGY is visible across all levels of sport. Athletes compete without long-term recognition. Clubs lack structured digital identities. Schools do not maintain permanent sporting records for student-athletes. Even major tournaments often disappear into archived social media posts after completion.

Esports, one of the fastest-growing sectors in Guyana, faces the same challenges, no rankings, no verified records, and no historical continuity.

CHAMPSGY aims to address these issues by creating a unified sporting ecosystem. Athletes will have professional profiles detailing their sport, club history, statistics, and achievements.

Clubs and schools will maintain structured pages with rosters, fixtures, results, and historical records. Competitions will be fully documented with standings, match reports, and accessible archives.

Federations will benefit from centralized visibility of rankings and results, improving organisation and transparency. Esports athletes will, for the first time, receive the same level of structured documentation and recognition as traditional sports.

For sponsors and businesses, CHAMPSGY offers continuity. Instead of temporary exposure tied to single events, brands will be integrated into a lasting ecosystem, visible across athlete profiles, clubs, tournaments, and sporting content long after competitions end.

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