Penta Sports

Penta
Abbreviation	PENTA
operator	PENTA Entertainment UG (limited liability)
Manager	Andreas Schaetzke; Felix Gräbeldinger Johannes Gürtler ;
Headquarters	Berlin
founding year	2013
Clan color	gray, orange
Main sponsor	ONE, Arctic, 20th Century FOX
Homepage	penta-sports.com
Teams
	* Counter Strike: Global Offensive PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds; DOTA 2; Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege; World of Tanks; Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft; Rocket League; FIFA; SKILL - Special Force 2; PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds; Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege; Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft; Rocket League; FIFA; Fortnite;

Penta (proper spelling: PENTA ) is incorporated in 2013 German E-Sport - the organization which currently professional players in the disciplines League of Legends , Hearthstone , FIFA supports and other games.

history

Founded in 2013 as a merger of the five clubs and organizations Concordia Gaming , club diamondZ eV , KomaCrew eV , KD-Gaming eV and logiX eV , Penta Sports started its gaming operations on January 5th, 2014. The team celebrated their first small success in League of Legends . In the Spring Season 14 of the ESL Pro Series Penta Sports reached the finals. The roster of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team, which from August 22nd to December 29th consisted of the five players Felix "fel1x" Zech, Kevin "kRYSTAL" Amend, Robin "r0bs3n" Stephan, Denis, received international attention "Denis" Howell and Timo "Spiidi" Richter passed. In October 2014 Penta emerged as the winner of the ESEA Season 17 Main Division - Europe . In addition, the team qualified for the 250,000 USD doped Tournament DreamHack GO at a major tournament (winter 2014. There it managed Penta is the first German team in CS major tournament ) the knockout phase to achieve. After they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against Virtus.pro , the Germans won 10,000 USD in prize money. On December 29, 2014, Penta Sports announced two player changes. Robin "r0bs3n" Stephan and Felix "fel1x" Zech were replaced by previous Planetkey players Johannes "nex" Maget and Hendrik "strux1" Goetzendorff. The latter left the team in February 2015 after disagreements. He was followed by Tobias "Troubley" Tabbert as the fifth man, with whom Penta reached the quarter-finals at ESL One Katowice 2015 . After further changes after the tournament and the departures of Denis “denis” Howell, Timo “Spiidi” Richter and Johannes “nex” Maget to mousesports , Penta's lineup from the beginning of May to June 2015 consisted of the players Tobias “Troubley” Tabbert and Kevin “KRYSTAL” Amend, Hendrik “strux1” Goetzendorff, Johannes “tabseN” Wodarz and the German-Greek Dimitrios “stavros” Smoilis. At gamescom 2015, the SKILL - Special Force 2 team from PENTA Sports with the lineup Ramzi "Aeom" Geysen and Yannick "Eraze" Heus from Belgium , Petar "Gr4vity" Roje from Croatia , David "HEXOR" Blaine from Germany and Martin “Marre” Gustavsson from Sweden won the ESL tournament there and took home more than € 22,000 in prize money. In January 2016, after Timo “Spiidi” Richter switched to mousesports and Hendrik “strux1” Goetzendorff retired, the Belgian David “davidp” Prins and the Dutchman Mike “mikeS” Tuns joined the CS: GO team . After relegation in Season 2 in May 2016, the CS: GO team managed to get promoted again directly by winning the relegation against Virtus.pro.

In Rainbow Six Siege, Penta Sports won the first edition in 2016 and the first and second edition in 2017 of the Pro League hosted by the Electronic Sports League .

In February 2018 they won the Six Invitationals 2018 in Canada. In August 2018, the Rainbow Six Siege team switched to G2 Esports . As a result, the lineup of Mock-it Esports was signed in September 2018.

At the beginning of 2019, PENTA Sports changed its name to PENTA. Also since the beginning of 2019 PENTA has been cooperating with the German sports club TSV 1860 Munich under the PENTA 1860 brand in the League of Legends game , and in June 2019 the cooperation was expanded to include popular sports.

With the PENTA.BCON department, PENTA has had an esports team since 2019, which is made up exclusively of people with a disability. Among other things, this is intended to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in e-sports.