PENTA has been a staple of the Rainbow Six scene from the very beginning. Starting with the Season 1 Pro League winning roster, featuring now-G2 Esports player Niclas "Pengu" Mouritzen, and the roster that cruised through most of Year 2, winning two Pro League titles and the Invitational, PENTA has always been a part of the scene.
G2 Esports bought the title-winning PENTA roster just before the Six Major Paris.
After losing its title-winning roster to G2 Esports, it signed the Mock-it Esports roster that would form its current roster today. While results were decent in Seasons 8 and 9 of the Pro League, and downright impressive at times like during DreamHack Winter 2018, the team eventually saw its shifting roster relegated to the Challenger League in Season 10.
Playing the Challenger League in Season 11 with a roster of ENEMY, RevaN, BlaZ, Kaktus, Alive, and Janixs, with BiOs coaching, the team embarked on an attempt to make it back to the top-flight in time for the new and improved FACEIT European League (EUL). However, a single point saw PENTA miss out, and OrgLess (now Team Secret) make it. Nevertheless, the organisation put in a vote of confidence within its roster, announcing that it would be keeping the players throughout the FACEIT Challenger League 2020 season.
To know more about PENTA's approach to its roster and the scene, SiegeGG spoke to its Managing Director, Andreas Schaetzke.
Firstly, can you introduce yourself and your role within PENTA?
Your organisation has a long and storied history with Rainbow Six, how excited are you for this to be continuing?
Many would have expected you to sign another team in one of the top-flight leagues around the globe. What was the factor that made you stick with your current Challenger League roster?
RevaN at the 6 French League 2019 Finals.
With the recently announced changes to the European scene, what does the future of Rainbow Six look like to you?
The structure of the new Challenger League. PENTA and DefuseKids will join the ten teams as per the image.
What does the future of your team look like to you? How will they better gear up to secure promotion this time?
The French-majority PENTA roster will thus be gearing up for its second attempt at securing promotion when the new FACEIT Challenger League starts up which they have currently qualified for alongside Defusekids and the new forZe roster. Before then, the team will presumably be first seen in the upcoming Season 2 of the 6 French League which they enter as the most recent French champions after winning the 6 Open Cup event with the following lineup:
Julian "ENEMY" Blin Jean "RevaN" Prudenti Alexandre "BlaZ" Thomas Medhi "Kaktus" Marty Nathan "Alive" Donday Janis "Janixs" Linins (substitute) Arnaud "BiOs" Billaudel (coach)
