Ventus Gaming Plans To Bring The Pain — Literally

Oops. I was meant to do something on this last night, but while browsing the site I had to go for emergency eye surgery. Take a guess why. Here’s a hint: the site of it literally burnt.

Recently, we ran into a little bit of trouble with ZootFly — so I’ll try keep on track by being nice.

Ventus Gaming — a brand new MGO has arrived in South Africa. They apparently formed in October 2009, however we were totally oblivious to this. They officially blasted onto the gaming scene a few days ago, scarring retina’s nationwide.

Ventus means wind, in latin — but it also seems to match the surname of its leader Pieter Venter, who goes by the name Cyrus.

The new MGO has teams for DotA, HoN, Guitar Hero, Fifa 10, Quake Live and Counter Strike.

The DotA team is previously known as tankh, and they seemed to have jumped onto the sponsorship wagon, which is pretty nifty for a DotA team — seeing as all sponsors seem to hate DotA.

Cyrus has said that this is the first team to launch with sponsors, and they are pretty excited about it. He plans to make the team succeed by using his previous knowledge from XploIT, a previously failed MGO.

Check out their *cringe* site, for more.

The teams:

Guitar Hero

• Mark ‘DarthPenguin’ Dennison

Fifa 10

• Matthew ‘Cheezy’ Bosch

Quake Live

• Henk ‘Adrenalin’ Boshoff
• Micele ‘Szarko’ Aleksandrov
• Robert ‘Draven’ Szlanina

Counter Strike

• Connor ‘KING’ Laming
• Dean ‘HackeM’ Seyfried
• Jandrey ‘JiN’ Venter
• Marco ‘Lost’ Fourie
• Marchant ‘StripflOw’ Laauwen

DotA

• Anthony ‘scant’ Hodgson
• Mike ‘nakor’ Jones
• Wessel ‘Freez’ Louwrens
• Gerrit ‘Death’ Willigenburg
• Liang ‘Kspr’ Cai

HoN – Previous known as Kai

• Sakkie ‘RandomHero’ Basson (Captain)
• Mark ‘iLLuSioN’ Woodland
• Nicholas ‘Prodegy’ Bowler
• Justin ‘smke ‘ Probyn
• Riaan ‘azN_DoMz’ Visser

Similar to Bravado-Gaming, Ventus are planning to grow e-Sports in South Africa. They have already received a few sponsorships for their efforts and this includes:

• Web Africa: 11x Unshaped accounts with 12GB each.
• Cooler Master: 5x Cosmos Sport Chassis valued at R2200 each, 5x Hyper212plus fans, 5x 1100W
• Samsung: 5x Samsung XL2370 HD 23″ TFT LCD Screens. (In association with Rectron)

On a side note: Looks like something from the ’90s.