Esports | Rainbow Six Siege | PENTA Sports — The Five-Map Reverse Sweep at TOHU

On Sunday, February 18, 2018, PENTA Sports and Evil Geniuses reached the Six Invitational Grand Final on the public stage at TOHU in Montréal. Ubisoft’s publisher championship, organized with ESL, closed a six-day LAN in the circular venue, while earlier tournament play had also used the Ubisoft Montréal studio.

The match used the Windows PC edition of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege during Year 2 Season 4, Operation White Noise. Y2S4.2 had reached the public PC client before the final, but no source discloses a narrower event-build number, so one should not be inferred.

Five-player teams alternated between attacking and defending in Bomb mode, where attackers could win a round by eliminating the defenders or planting and protecting a defuser, while defenders could eliminate the attackers, run out the clock, or disable a planted device. The championship was a best-of-five-map series, and each map was decided by rounds.

PENTA fielded Fabian Hällsten, Daniel “Goga” Mazorra Romero, Niclas “Pengu” Mouritzen, Ville “SHA77E” Palola, and Joonas “jNSzki” Savolainen. Evil Geniuses answered with Ammar “Necrox” Albanna, Austin “Yung” Trexler, Brandon “BC” Carr, Nathan “nvK” Valenti, and Troy “Canadian” Jaroslawski.

Evil Geniuses won Clubhouse 5–3, then survived Oregon 6–5 in overtime to lead two maps to none. PENTA kept the final alive by taking Kafe Dostoyevsky 5–3 and Bank 5–2, producing what Ubisoft described as the first fifth map in top-level professional Rainbow Six.

Coastline became the decider: Evil Geniuses took the opening round, PENTA won four in succession, and Evil Geniuses recovered to 4–4. PENTA won the first overtime round, then Pengu’s fifteenth elimination on the map completed a one-versus-two play for the 6–4 finish.

The 3–2 result gave PENTA the 2018 world championship and stopped Evil Geniuses from defending the Invitational title it had won in 2017. Anchoring the memory at TOHU matters because this was the audience-facing final stage, not the studio used earlier in the week and not an organizer office.

Photo: Cossette.phil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.