Ankit Panth is an Indian eSports player and YouTuber, known for his pro-gaming skills. He is considered one of India’s most popular Counter-Strike gaming professionals.
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Wiki/Biography
Ankit Panth (aka Ankit V3nom Panth) was born on Wednesday, 26 July 1989 (age 33 years; as in 2022) in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. After Ankit completed his schooling, his parents insisted that he graduate with an Aeronautical Engineering degree and later pursue an MBA, but he was not interested in it. He convinced his parents and graduated with a different degree before he became a professional gamer.
Ankit Panth’s childhood picture
Physical Appearance
Height (approx): 6′
Weight (Approx): 75 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Body Measurements (Approx): Chest: 41 inches, Waist: 28 inches, Biceps: 14 inches
Family
parents and siblings
Ankit has a brother named Rohan Panth. In one of his Facebook posts, Ankit told that his father had died many years ago.
Ankit Panth with his mother
livelihood
When Ankit was 15 years old, he went to a gaming café called Boomerang in Kandivali, Mumbai. He saw people enthusiastically playing the video game Counter-Strike 1.6 and was fascinated by them. After playing Counter-Strike for some time, he decided to make gaming his profession. Later, he started playing Counter-Strike GO professionally and founded several gaming teams. He formed his first gaming team and named it Warriors of Chaos (WOC), through which he started earning money. In 2006, he formed a semi-professional team called Made in Mumbai (MiM). While playing in a café, Ankit met popular egamer Akash ‘Rix’ More. Then, Ankit was given a chance to play as a substitute for Aakash’s team, which was ranked in the top three in India at that time.
Esports team founder
In 2008, Ankit and Aakash “Rix” Mor started a player-owned team, Brutality, a professional Indian eSports team. He won his first major Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament, which was also Ankit’s first tournament win. Ankit is the Founder and Operating Director of Cruelty. The team has won numerous (semi) professional tournaments, while being equally popular to compete in solo titles such as Tekken, Street Fighter, Need for Speed, Forza Motorsports, and the TrackMania series. Brutality has represented their team at national and international level and won several tournaments including ESL Cup 2014 Season 4 (Online), Lenovo India Gaming Week 2015 in Mumbai (LAN) and Transeneca LAN Party Tournament 2016 in Pune (LAN).
Ankit Panth (middle) with his co-players of Team Brutality
HyperX – Brand Ambassador
In 2022, gaming peripherals company HyperX signed Ankit Panth as its first Indian brand ambassador. On this HyperX said,
We have been watching and appreciating his gaming talents for quite some time now and are thrilled to have Ankit finally joining our ranks. With Ankit Panth as our Indian brand ambassador, we are confident that his amazing abilities and creative talent will resonate with HyperX’s mission and extend the reach of the brand to more young gamers who share the same passion.
red bull athlete
Ankit Panth represents Red Bull in gaming as India’s first Red Bull athlete. So far, he is the only Indian gamer to be honored as a Red Bull Athlete for eSports.
Ankit Panth, India’s first Red Bull Gaming athlete
Brand endorsements and sponsorships
After seeing Ankit and his team’s skills in gaming, Dell, an American technology company, started sponsoring them. They enabled Team Brutality to take their eSports potential to the next level by using Dell’s powerful gaming systems to compete in further eSports events. In the gaming world he is known as #IntelsUltimateV3nom. According to Ankit, he got his break when he participated in the e-sports tournament named ‘You Cypher with MTV’ which was aired on MTV. Although his team lost in the Tekken game, they bounced back by winning Real Cricket 17, CSGO and DOTA 2.
Ankit Panth on the sets of eSports tournament U Cypher with MTV India (2018)
Later, he was signed by Alienware and Intel India as a brand ambassador. Apart from playing Counter-Strike professionally, Ankit also plays GTA5, The Witcher 3 and FIFA (video game series). Ankit joined a new team in August 2021 and became a part of the M42 Esports roster.
Awards and Achievements
- 2009: 2nd place – World Cyber Games – Counter-Strike 1.6
- 2010: 2nd place – World Cyber Games – Counter-Strike 1.6
- 2015: 2nd place – World Cyber Games – Counter-Strike 1.6
- 2015: 1st Place-Logitech Free2Play – CS:GO
- 2015: 1st Place – Lenovo India Gaming Week – CS:GO
- 2015: 1st Place- Transeneca Gaming League Raipur – CS:GO
- 2018: Captain of the Year title at India Gaming Awards
Ankit Panth receives Captain of the Year award at India Gaming Awards 2018
Favorite
- Weapons of Choice: USP-S, AK-47, and M4A4
- Chocolate: Ferrero Rocher
- Series: Bard of Blood, Money Heist, Made in Heaven and Narcos
Facts/General Knowledge
- He is also known by the name V3nombiceps.
- Ankit has more than 70k followers on Instagram, 118k subscribers on YouTube and 7.8k followers on Twitter.
- Ankit is a fitness enthusiast and he often shares his fitness routine on social media.
- Ankit is known for his excellent DJing skills.
- In an interview, Ankit had said that he never smoked or consumed alcohol.
- Ankit’s parents had to break their fixed deposit to buy gaming equipment for Ankit. His mother also had to sell her jewellery; However, after his huge success, Ankit brought him back. Ankit said in an interview,
From crying for days to get a personal computer I now currently have 4 high-end systems. I didn’t know much at that time nor could I see the future. This was the only thing I knew how to do and I kept doing it.”
- In OTT Gamers Den, Ankit revealed that when he was 15, he asked his parents for Rs 20/- to go to a gaming café and ultimately got scolded. After that, he never asked for money and started saving money to go to gaming cafes on weekends.
- In his childhood, he was made fun of a lot because of his thinness and his dressing sense. Therefore, when he used to go to gaming cafes, he was surprised to see that no one there cared about his physical appearance and clothes.
Ankit Panth during his early gaming days
- In an interview, Ankit said that the owner of a gaming cafe once told him that he would not charge him anything because he wanted him to win the tournament.
- In Ankit’s Instagram post, Ankit shared his journey of becoming a successful gamer. In the post, he also talked about the obstacles he faced in his journey and said that when he did not get success in gaming, he decided to pursue other fields including modeling.
- From 2015 to 2018, after playing in a total of 17 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments, Ankit earned $2,697.58 (INR 2,22,005.44).
- Ankit has been featured in several articles for various media houses including The Economic Times and The Times of India.
Ankit Panth published in The Economic Times
- In 2022, he appeared in a commercial for Gillette Guard.
Ankit Panth in a scene from a Gillette Guard TV commercial
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