PENTA sign full-time contracts

21-5-2015 18:00

PENTA Sports have announced that their CS:GO players have signed full-time contracts with the organisation.

The new deals were signed last weekend in Warsaw, where the German team faced Gamers2 in a best-of-three showmatch presented by G2A.

With these contracts, which will run until March 2016, PENTA have become only the second team in Germany to play Counter-Strike full-time, following in the footsteps of mousesports.

The news comes as a considerable boost to the German side, who underwent a major overhaul earlier in the month as Denis "⁠denis⁠" Howell, Timo "⁠Spiidi⁠" Richter and Johannes "⁠nex⁠" Maget were signed by mouz, while Niclas "⁠enkay J⁠" Krumhorn was given his marching orders.To fill out the roster, PENTA re-signed Tobias "⁠Troubley⁠" Tabbert and Hendrik "⁠strux1⁠" Goetzendorff and snared Dimitrios "⁠stavros⁠" Smoilis and Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz.

strux1 & co. sign full-time contracts with PENTA

Meanwhile, PENTA Sports have also revealed that they will establish a gaming house in Berlin during the coming weeks for the team to practice ahead of offline events.

"It is time to take the next step," Goetzendorff said. "Most international top teams already have team houses, where they are living or bootcamping, if possible.

"We want to take this next with PENTA Sports in the summer.

"Everyone on the team is ready to take that step in the near future, and I am sure it will play off in the long run."

"It is time to take the next step," Goetzendorff said. "Most international top teams already have team houses, where they are living or bootcamping, if possible.

"We want to take this next with PENTA Sports in the summer. The meaning of this is to take the job as an esports person to the international level in order to have the best possible training conditions.

"Everyone on the team is ready to take that step in the near future, and I am sure it will play off in the long run."

The German team currently sit at the bottom of the ESL ESEA Pro League table, with one victory from nine matches, while they are next-to-last in CEVO Professional, with one point from three games.

very nice, deserved

2015-05-21 18:00

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nice

2015-05-21 18:01

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Yeah, perfect dec

2015-05-22 22:20

This is great for them, but have they won a match yet? Hopefully this gets them into form.

2015-05-21 18:50

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they won vs mouz in their first match

2015-05-22 11:38

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And since? Don't get me wrong, I love the players on penta but I feel like you need to work for your contract.

2015-05-22 14:51

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Well now they have time to do so. They all had jobs AND studied. Let's give them 2 weeks and see what they can do. Troubley is not going to be in the team long enough to bootcamp with them anyway.

2015-05-22 17:35

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E-sports has always had players balancing gaming and real life obligations until they have achieved enough success to allow them to be full time professionals, using that as an excuse is just dumb. This team will likely never break into T1 or even be the top German team over mouz. This was a poor business decision and Penta will soon learn they fucked up.

2015-05-22 18:32

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2015-05-22 22:38

Even if they won't be a top world team penta is a German org and wants to support German cs and their scene. Who else is better in Germany besides mouz who are a much bigger org than peNta and has much deeper pockets than penta?

2015-05-23 02:44

jOELZ to PENTA march 2016 confirmed

2015-05-21 18:51

He never even left his house, let alone visit a lan event, nice try though but jOELZ still get slapped at home by his parents.

2015-05-21 21:24

I heard he was going to graduate from basement to garden this summer, and with that speed I think he will reach LAN-level soon.

2015-05-21 21:26

thx

2015-05-21 19:43

why? do you know the guys?

2015-05-22 09:39

yes

Expected tbh.

if only it was the old penta :(

why would u go full-time as a tier 8 team?

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u should ask that cloud9 and their 10000 sponsors without any win

2015-05-21 18:02

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dont forget that they are all very popular and getting 8k+ every day on their streams.So thats why they got sponsors.While penta is both bad at cs and unpopular :).

2015-05-21 18:28

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krystal actually gets 1k+ viewer

2015-05-21 18:36

not one PROFESSIONAL na player has a huge viewerbase...only hiko (no team) and moe (no team) have viewers krystal has more than all of them :)

2015-05-21 18:39

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I don't think that kHRYSTAL has more views than Shroud ^^

2015-05-21 18:41

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ok i forgot shroud xD my bad xD

Nearly everyone in C9 got more viewers than anyone in PENTA, Freak is probably the only one with less viewers but if he starts to stream more freq he will probably have more also.

2015-05-21 18:48

look at the NA scene and then germany...just the amount of ppl watching /playing in big ass murica and little germany % wise germany has more viewers

2015-05-21 18:52

%of population that plays cs also

2015-05-21 18:59

thats what i mean dawg

What you just said is just stupid... its not like you can only watch the streams where youre from.....

2015-05-21 19:51

*krystal

2015-05-21 18:42

You need to stop smoking krystal m8

2015-05-21 19:23

and penta is still better than every na team...same as mouz

2015-05-21 18:40

u asked why CLG liquid and C9 got sponsors.Here is my answer: They get between 5k and 12k viewers on their stream every day = audience for their sponsors = some of theese viewers probably buy the gear from their sponsors = their sponsors make profit ----> they pay to the teams. In the other part we got penta , who are really bad at the moment(no teamplay at all,decent individual skill but nothing sensational).

u have to understand 1 thing...german teams in GO NEVER had, dont have and will NEVER have teamplay...just sayin´

2015-05-21 19:02

thats really sad.I kinda the previous mouz line-up but they had like 3 german citizens only.Some of your players should sit on the table and make a disscusion on whats going wrong with their teamwork.Only after this happens they can make a top team from germany.

2015-05-21 19:04

they are toxic, greedy fuckers who think that they are the best and don t need training or teamplay(that s what i experienced in the german "scene" so far)

2015-05-21 19:28

well than they desserve their spot at tier 3 ;).

2015-05-21 19:36

now they're gonna defeat HR, and i'm gonna lose 6$

my thoughts exactly lol

2015-05-21 18:11

1 month max

troubley and gaming house, not gonna end well.

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2015-05-21 18:03

That will by a GAYMING house now :D

2015-05-21 18:06

LOL

AHHAHAHA

2015-05-21 18:07

Better call the police already xD

2015-05-21 18:08

oh god, best comment ever hahahah :D

2015-05-21 18:12

is troubley gay ?

2015-05-22 07:25

yes, and he stalk a teammate, haha

2015-05-23 07:01

good xD

they are the first german team to do this or? mousesports isn't full-time gaming afaik.

They are...

2015-05-21 18:16

source? i just read that gob b got such a contract but none of the others. and no news about this since nex/spiidi/denis joined mouz.

2015-05-21 18:19

csgo.99damage.de/de/news/27529-ein-blick..

2015-05-21 18:22

well i think everyone in mouz is studying/working besides playing, i wouldn't call this "full-time gaming" really.

2015-05-21 18:26

same for the most of tsm. many csgoplayers are studying or still go to school because a cs-career does not last forever.

Is troubley gay?

2015-05-21 18:09

kinda

2015-05-21 18:13

2015-05-21 18:14

expected

inb4 they beat NA team on LAN again

2015-05-21 18:17

how much they become in month ?

20 000

2015-05-21 18:21

at least

become? really?

2015-05-21 18:27

Just about tree fiddy

deserved for tabsen GL!

They are so low,probably tier 3 who da fuck makes contracts with them when they are so bad at this game.

2015-05-21 18:29

signing troubley is always bad move

2015-05-21 18:30

inb4.. 2 weeks later, troubly getting booted out.

2015-05-21 18:31

Deserved, gl hf!

2015-05-21 18:33

good luck !!

nice one

penta tier 1 inc <3

2015-05-21 18:53

:D hf troubley =)

2015-05-21 18:55

Oh god... Top 3 Germany and top 30 world. They won't win anything.

2015-05-21 18:58

its not about winning making quarter/semi final is goog too

cant edit: they are top 2 germany

2015-05-21 19:08

Top 3 Murrica Top 50 world.

2015-05-21 19:10

What ever makes you sleep at night.

2015-05-21 20:16

Even tho they still manage to get more achievements in last 6 months than whole NA. What a shame.

2015-05-21 19:11

Cool. They are a really good team.

penta party timmmmme

2015-05-21 19:17

bravo

2015-05-21 19:30

now they become fulltime noobs?

2015-05-21 20:01

VORWÄRTS

2015-05-21 20:18

2015-05-21 20:29

Gaming house with Troubley hmmMm =D!

2015-05-21 20:55

1-8 esl esea league new lineup didnt go on lan together krystal will suck bibas cock half the time

2015-05-21 21:14

good luck!

2015-05-21 22:02

They're the worst team to come out of Germany, why did Penta sign them on? >.>

2015-05-21 22:49

why... worst shuffled team losing to tier3 teams...

2015-05-21 22:54

hält eh wieder nur für einen Monat LOL :D

2015-05-21 23:41

troub is the best german player ! but ye not able to play in a team

2015-05-22 00:57

yeeeee no

2015-05-22 04:00

why they sign this team they win 2 out of 30 matches against tier 4 teams

2015-05-22 01:26

Rip all the money

2015-05-22 11:25

2015-05-24 21:03

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