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| Short name | VT |
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| Divisions | Call of Duty Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 League of Legends Overwatch StarCraft 2 |
| Founded | August 2009 |
| Based in | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Location | Denmark; South Africa |
| Manager | Pieter "Cyrus" Venter |
| Partners | Corsair |
Ventus Gaming is a professional esports organisation based in South Africa. It was founded in 2009 by Pieter Venter. Ventus Gaming fields teams in many different games which includes both PC and console gaming platforms. The organisation was officially launched on 28 March 2010.[1][2]
The organisation's League of Legends team, Ventus Esports, is based in Denmark and competes in the European Masters tournament.
History
Behind the scenes the teams continued their work, hoping to step into the light once more under a new name (Ventus) and merge publicly when they got a new sponsor. Clans-SA boarded as a sponsor and supplied Ventus with its first website, and so 20 October saw Ventus reemerge on the World Wide Web (although kept quiet and unannounced). Various other organisations were also approached for sponsorship and soon after Ventus landed sponsorships from Web Africa, Samsung (in association with Rectron) and Coolermaster Taiwan.
In December Matthew "Cheezy" Bosch joined Ventus after discussion with him at the FIFA Roadshow.
During January 2010 Venter decided Ventus would be ready to launch fully in March 2010. He spoke to Stephen "Vitrolic" White about his decision, little knowing Brazen.Cod4 was planning their own future separately with Bravado Gaming. This unfortunate loss however did not change Ventus' readiness and so the launch date was left unchanged.
Anthony "scant" Hodgson was approached with the idea of recruiting the DotA team tankh. The deal was finalised very quickly and tankh was on board. Sakkie "RandomHero" Basson and his Heroes of Newerth team Kai were also approached and Venter was able to convince the team of the greater potential to be found with Ventus and the official recruitment took place later in April.
In February 2010 Venter contacted an old comrade, Flipi "alcardu" Portman, to help run Ventus. Venter was already busy planning future recruitments specifically teams for Counter-Strike and Call of Duty 4. Ventus soon found a viable option and contacted Connor "KING" Lamming, then captain of the Counter-Strike team Boondocks. Interest was shown, but soon after ulterior plans arose again as Connor left Boondocks to form a new team for Ventus. Connor had Dean "Hackem" Seyfried, Marchant "StripflOw" Laauwen, Jandrey "JiN" Venter and Marco "Lost" Fourie join with him and they formed Ventus.CS.
On the Quake Live front Robert "Draven" Szlanina and Mitchell "Szarko" Aleksandrov, aka Azul from team Corps, joined Henk "Shenks" Steyn aka Adrenalin in the Ventus.QL division. Draven was part of XploIT in 2008 but quit gaming for a few months and then came back when Quake Live replaced Quake 3.
March 2010 saw Ventus ready for launch with 6 divisions: CSS, DotA, HoN, QL, FIFA and Guitar Hero. Ventus launched on 28 March and went live on IRC that Sunday evening. On 29 March DoGaming[3] and MyGaming[4] ran articles on the launch. eGamer[5] followed suit shortly after.
Within a week, Venter was approached by the Call of Duty 4 team known as Beastial to become the Ventus CoD4 Division. Discussions started and the team joined. An interview[6] with the team captain, Tjaart "LiveR" Fourie, on 1 April and DoGaming[7] covered the news that afternoon.
On 8 April 2010, a week later, Ventus went ahead and got another division, this time in the form of Warcraft 3. It was led by a former XploIT DotA player as well as editor of Ventus, Flipi "aclardu" Portman and also had another DotA player from the old XploIT organisation known as Samuel "ValpraX" Scott as well as his long-time friend and local legend, Caleb "ReaVeR" Ridley. DoGaming[8] covered the news yet again.
Three weeks later, Ventus launched a new division in the form of Overclocking. This seat was yet again filled by a former XploIT DotA player, Goddy "Vivi" McRoodt. It was covered on the Ventus website[9] as well as DoGaming.[10]
Achievements
Major tournaments
Ventus has placed in the top 10 at the following major tournaments:
Call of Duty Console
- 2nd Telkom DGL LAN Championships - 9 October 2016
- 2nd Telkom DGL LAN Championships - 11 October 2015
Call of Duty PC
- 1st Telkom DGL LAN Championships - R25,000 Cash Prize - 12 December 2010
- 2nd Telkom DGL Preliminary LAN Championships - R7,500 Cash Prize - 5 December 2010
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- 2nd Telkom DGL LAN Championships - 9 October 2016
Dota 2
League of Legends
- 1st Telkom DGL LAN Championships - 9 October 2016
- 2nd Telkom DGL LAN Championships - 11 October 2015
Overclocking
Quake Live
- 3rd Arena77 Dreamhack Quake Live National Preliminaries - 2009
Minor tournaments
Ventus has placed in the top 3 at the following minor tournaments:
Call of Duty 4
- 1st COD4ZA Crash Challenge - May 2011
- 2nd Telkom DGL Online League Leg 2 (Premier) - May 2011
- 1st COD4ZA Crossfire Challenge - April 2011
- 1st COD4ZA First Blood Community Cup - April 2011
- 1st Telkom DGL Online League Leg 1 (Premier) - March 2011
- 1st ESZ Intel Kick-Off League - November 2010
- 1st Telkom DGL Online League Leg 3 (1st Div) - June 2010
- 2nd Organised Chaos LAN (Cape Town) - May 2010
- 1st Telkom DGL Online League Leg 2 (2nd Div) - May 2010
Call of Duty: Black Ops
- 2nd NAG Gaming League - Easter Cup - April 2011
- 1st Telkom DO Gaming Online Championship - October 2014
Defense of the Ancients
- 1st Twilight League Season 3 - October 2010
- 2nd Organised Chaos LAN - September 2010
- 1st Twilight Cup - July 2010
- 1st Twilight League Season 2 - June 2010
- 1st Organised Chaos LAN (Cape Town) - May 2010
- 1st SynCidy Online Comp #2 - April 2010
- 1st SynCidy Online Comp #1 - March 2010
- 1st Twilight League Leg 1 - March 2010
Heroes of Newerth
- 1st Telkom DGL Online League Leg 4 - September 2010
- 1st Telkom DGL Online League Leg 3 - July 2010
- 3rd Extreme Professional League (XPL) - July 2010
- 2nd GameReplays.org Warm Up Tourney 2 - May 2010
- 3rd GameReplays.org Warm Up Tourney 1 - May 2010
- 1st Telkom DGL Online League Leg 2 - May 2010
- 1st Telkom DGL Online League Leg 1 - March 2010
- 1st WITS S2Games Tournament - March 2010
Overclocking
- 1st GOOC South African Qualifiers - April 2010
Quake Live
- 1st QL SprintCup - 30 May 2010 - Micele "Azul" Aleksandrov
- 2nd QL SprintCup - 30 May 2010 - Robert "Draven" Szlanina
- 1st QL SprintCup - 16 May 2010 - Micele "Azul" Aleksandrov
- 2nd QL SprintCup - 16 May 2010 - Robert "Draven" Szlanina
- 1st miNt Cup #1 - March 2010 - Micele "Azul" Aleksandrov
Starcraft 2
- 1st Polarfluke Char Grilled - June 2011 - PandaTank
- 1st Polarfluke Muta Mayhem - May 2011 - PandaTank
- 2nd Polarfluke Muta Mayhem - May 2011 - Enjoy
- 2nd Polarfluke Mmmarch - March 2011 - Enjoy
- 3rd Polarfluke Love is in the Aiur - February 2011 - PandaTank
- 2nd DoGaming Online Championships - January 2011 - PandaTank
- 2nd Polarfluke ALL-IN - January 2011 - PandaTank
- 2nd Polarfluke Xmas - December 2010 - Valprax
- 1st Polarfluke: Heaven's Devils - September 2010 - AngryAfrican
- 1st Polarfluke: Released - August 2010 - AngryAfrican
- 4th Polarfluke: Released - August 2010 - Dreamer
- 2nd Megarom Invitational - July 2010 - AngryAfrican
- 2nd GoTime - July 2010 - AngryAfrican
- 1st The Fist #5 - July 2010 - Dreamer
- 1st FPPQQ Phase2 - July 2010 - Dreamer
- 1st The Fist #4 - June 2010 - Dreamer
- 1st The Fist #3 - June 2010 - Dreamer
Team Fortress 2
- 1st TF2CSA v2 - March 2011
- 1st DoGaming TF2 Cup - March 2011
WarCraft 3
- 1st Twilight Community Cup - March 2010 - Valprax
- 1st Kode5 National Preliminaries - March 2008 - ReaVeR
References
- ^ Ventus Gaming Emerges, gaming.do.co.za
- ^ Ventus Gaming Plans to bring the pain literally, egamer.co.za
- ^ Vemtus Gaming Emerges, gaming.do.co.za
- ^ Team Introducing Ventus Gaming, mygaming.co.za
- ^ Ventus Gaming plans to bring the pain literally, egamer.co.za
- ^ Ventus expands, Beastial joins, ventusgaming.co.za
- ^ Beastial joins Ventus, gaming.do.co.za
- ^ Ventus Forms Warcraft 3 Division, gaming.do.co.za
- ^ Ventus clocks in, ventusgaming.co.za
- ^ Ventus Launches Overclocking Division, gaming.do.co.za
External links
- Ventus Gaming on Facebook
- Ventus Gaming on X
