{"id":11645,"date":"2020-06-19T03:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T03:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=11645"},"modified":"2020-06-19T03:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T03:02:45","slug":"penta-sports-return-with-all-german-csgo-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/penta-sports-return-with-all-german-csgo-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"PENTA Sports return with all-German CS:GO roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENTA Sports announced their re-entry into the <a href=\"\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CSGO betting sites\">CS:GO esports<\/a> scene this Thursday with an all-German lineup led by Christoph &#8220;red&#8221; Hinrichs.<\/p>\n<p>PENTA were last seen in the Counter-Strike landscape in 2017, when they fielded an international roster consisting of Kevin &#8220;kRYSTAL&#8221; Amend, Jesse &#8220;zehN&#8221; Linjala, Pawe\u0142 &#8220;innocent&#8221; Mocek, Niko &#8220;naSu&#8221; Kovanen, Kevin &#8220;HS&#8221; Tarn and Miikka &#8220;suNny&#8221; Kemppi.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their international success, which included CS:GO Major playoffs appearances at DreamHack Winter 2014 and ESL One Katowice 2015, the team started to crumble after finishing in 12th-14th place at PGL Major Krak\u00f3w 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2017, suNny left for mousesports and HS went to OpTic Gaming. A month later, naSu signed on as head coach of GODSENT, which led to PENTA terminating the contracts of the remaining players and disbanding the team on October 4.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSGO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSGO<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>After almost a 3 year-long hiatus, we&#39;re excited to announce the return to our founding game.<\/p>\n<p>Please give a warm welcome to;<\/p>\n<p>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redcsgod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@redcsgod<\/a><br \/>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pdy_csgo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pdy_csgo<\/a><br \/>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSsynx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CSsynx<\/a><br \/>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neviZCSGO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@neviZCSGO<\/a><br \/>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialxenn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@officialxenn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VAMOS!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThisIsPENTA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThisIsPENTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tzQVdlYyor\">pic.twitter.com\/tzQVdlYyor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PENTA (@PENTA_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PENTA_Sports\/status\/1273601369338007553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>After three years out of the CS:GO scene, PENTA returned this week with a roster featuring former EURONICS members \u2060red\u2060, Patrick &#8220;\u2060pdy\u2060&#8221; Merken and Yannik &#8220;\u2060neviZ\u2060&#8221; Baumh\u00f6fner, as well as two unproven German talents in Sebastian &#8220;\u2060xenn\u2060&#8221; Hoch and Andreas &#8220;\u2060synx\u2060&#8221; Trapp. Taking over the head coach position is Alexander &#8220;TerrorBanane&#8221; Gr\u00e4ser. <\/p>\n<p>The trio of red, pdy and neviZ saw a fair amount of success at EURONICS, albeit in lower-tier competitions. Their most notable achievements in 2020 include a second-place finish at WINNERS League &#8211; Season 3: Europe Main Division, a semi-final appearance at ESEA Season 33: Open Division &#8211; Europe and fifth-sixth place at ESL Meisterschaft: Spring 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the trio are ex-Planetkey Dynamics rifler xenn and former epikk esports member syNx. Although both have over five years of experience, neither has played for a high-profile team in Germany or abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firstly, I want to thank PENTA for the transparent negotiation process which led to a quick agreement,&#8221; said PENTA&#8217;s in-game leader, red.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please also welcome our team coach ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrorBananexD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TerrorBananexD<\/a> and manager ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luckystrikecs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@luckystrikecs<\/a>! ?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PENTA (@PENTA_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PENTA_Sports\/status\/1273601702948737029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We are very happy that we can call such an established and well-known organisation our new home. This is a special day for PENTA, which will finally return to CS:GO, as well as us since it\u2019s an honor to represent that brand!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, PENTA Sports became the first German squad in history to finish top eight at a CS:GO Major tournament, many years before BIG and mousesports achieved the same feat at PGL Major Krak\u00f3w 2017 and ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back to the roots! PENTA&#8217;s history spans over 6.5 years. It all started with CS:GO and we made history by reaching the top-8 in Major tournaments as the first German team ever,&#8221; said Andreas Schaetzke, Managing Director at PENTA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the last few years of not being represented in CS:GO we always kept a wary eye on the scene and its development. Even more important to us is to combine our &#8216;PENTA approach&#8217; with the right personalities. Therefore, I am very delighted to finally return to CS:GO and I am very sure that the upcoming matches will make our hearts leap for joy. Let&#8217;s just hope there is no more jiggling during defuse situations!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>PENTA will make their official return to the CS:GO scene on Friday, June 19, when red and his crew are scheduled to play Unicorns of Love at 99Liga Season #15: Division 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENTA Sports announced their re-entry into the CS:GO esports scene this Thursday with an all-German lineup led by Christoph &#8220;red&#8221; Hinrichs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[626,21,4,1291],"class_list":["post-11645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cs-go","tag-de","tag-featured","tag-penta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11649,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions\/11649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}