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Ventus also known as Ventus Gaming, Ventus eSports or ventusPRO is an electronic sports organisation from 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.
Contents
- Sponsorship
- Ventus Tournaments
- Major Tournaments
- DotA
- League of Legends
- Counter Strike
- Call of Duty Console
- Call of Duty PC
- Quake Live
- Overclocking
- Minor Tournaments
- Heroes of Newerth
- Call of Duty 4
- Call of Duty Black Ops
- Team Fortress 2
- Starcraft 2
- Defense of the Ancients
- WarCraft 3
- Counter Strike Global Offensive
- Call of Duty Black Ops 2014
- StarCraft 2
- Guitar Hero
- History
- References
Sponsorship
Ventus Gaming is sponsored by Corsair. More info at www
Ventus Tournaments
Ventus hosted various tournaments such as the Ventus Quake Live Sprint Cups, StarCraft 2v2 Tournaments, Call of Duty BttR Cup and various other competitions.
Major Tournaments
Ventus has placed in the top 10 at the following major tournaments
DotA
League of Legends
Counter-Strike
Call of Duty Console
Call of Duty PC
Quake Live
Overclocking
Minor Tournaments
Ventus has placed in the top 3 at the following minor tournaments:
Heroes of Newerth
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Team Fortress 2
Starcraft 2
Defense of the Ancients
WarCraft 3
Quake Live
Overclocking
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Current ZA Team:
Finland:
Heroes of Newerth
Defense of the Ancients
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2014
Team Fortress 2
StarCraft 2
WarCraft 3
Quake Live
Guitar Hero
Overclocking
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 and if they could get 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 two old comrades, Jéan-Paul "Jeev4" Avenant and 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 and MyGaming ran articles on the launch. eGamer 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 with the team captain, Tjaart "LiveR" Fourie, on 1 April and DoGaming 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 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 as well as DoGaming.