Selvom de fleste mennesker er ved at forberede sig på lækker mad og en masse brag, ligger tyskerne fra PENTA Sports ikke på den lade side. De har nemlig valgt at hive den tidligere PlanetKey Dynamics duo, Johannes "nex" Maget og Hendrik "strux1" Goetzendorff, ind i varmen. 

Det er henholdsvis Robin "r0bs3n" Stephan og Felix "fel1x" Zech, som sendes ud i kulden, da de resterende spillere følte, at der manglede det sidste på holdet. De nåede ellers, meget overraskende, kvartfinalen ved Dreamhack Winter 2014, men de vil endnu højere op.

Lineup:

  •  Denis "denis" Howell
  •  Timo "Spiidi" Richter
  •  Kevin "kRYSTAL" Amend
  •  Johannes "nex" Maget
  •  Hendrik "strux1" Goetzendorff

En af holdets stjerner, Timo "Spiidi" Richter, forklarer i den officielle udtalelse, hvorfor valget faldt på netop disse to spillere.

We played for about six months in this constellation and it has always been a lot of fun, the chemistry within the team has always been very good which is worth a lot. On the paper we are by now the most successful German team in history (due to the DreamHack Winter 2014). Unfortunately we played really inconsistent and whenever kRYSTAL had a bad day it didn’t look good for us. Further on we didn’t really have a shot caller anyways.

At this point I want to give special thanks to r0bs3n who put really a huge amount of work into the team and without him we wouldn’t be where we are now =). Never the less it hasn’t been enough in the end, obviously. I don’t want to disparage our achievements but we made it to a point where we couldn’t improve our play anymore. We are all really thankful to Felix and Robin for the awesome times we had. Since we secured the spot in the next CS:GO Major together we will of course share the received sticker money with our former team mates. That’s just fair.

Coming to our new players: Due to the illness of denis we had already had the chance to play with nex in the Acer A-Split tournament. Kevin (kRYSTAL) and I instantly noticed that he is the kind of player we need to improve the team’s performance. In my humble opinion he is currently the strongest German player and also has a great personality. With strux1 we have the wanted top caller in our rows who also fits perfectly into the team personality wise. We are highly motivated for the upcoming year 2015 and hope to get the outstanding team that the German CS:GO scene deserves!

Tyskerne får altså også nye taktisk leder, så det bliver spændende at følge dem i 2015, hvor de højst sandsynligt vil kunne opleves til Copenhagen Games, som starter den 1. april.