Ventus Gaming is a Multi-Gaming Organisation (MGO) comprising of various games on PC and console. Formed in October 2009, Ventus (wind in latin) Gaming has a team for DotA, HoN, Guitar Hero, FIFA 10, Quake Live and Counter Strike, with plans for StarCraft 2, CoD 4 an Bad Company 2 teams in the near future.
Ventus teams
DotA – Previously tankh
• Anthony ‘scant’ Hodgson (Captain)
• Mike ‘nakor’ Jones
• Wessel ‘Freez’ Louwrens
• Gerrit ‘Death’ Willigenburg
• Liang ‘Kspr’ Cai
HoN – Previously Kai
• Sakkie ‘RandomHero’ Basson (Captain)
• Mark ‘iLLuSioN’ Woodland
• Nicholas ‘Prodegy’ Bowler
• Justin ‘smke ‘ Probyn
• Riaan ‘azN_DoMz’ Visser
Guitar Hero
• Mark ‘DarthPenguin’ Dennison (Won Guitar Hero SA champs last year. More here)
FIFA10
• Matthew ‘Cheezy’ Bosch (Winner of the 2009 Telkom/EA FIFA Roadshow and won tickets to see Chelsea vs Arsenal)
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
Ventus are aiming to grow E-Sports in SA, and plan on expanding their teams into different divisions.
Ventus is currently sponsored the following:
Web Africa: 11x Unshaped accounts with 12GB each. Pings to UK servers are averaged at 180ms which makes it possible to compete against teams from Europe and gain international experience.
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)
Clans-SA: designed and host Ventus website.