Ankit Panth is an Indian eSports player and YouTuber, known for his pro-gaming skills. He is considered as one of the most popular Counter-Strike game professionals in India.
Wiki/Biography
Ankit Panth (aka Ankit V3nom Panth) was born on Wednesday, 26 July 1989 (age 33 years; in 2022) in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. After Ankit was done with his schooling, his parents insisted that he graduate with an Aeronautical Engineering degree and pursue an MBA later, but he was not interested. He convinced his parents and graduated with different degrees before becoming a professional gamer.
Ankit Panth’s childhood photos
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 6′
Weight (approx): 75 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Body Measurements (approx): Chest: 41 inches, Waist: 28 inches, Biceps: 14 inches
Family
Parents & Siblings
Ankit has a brother named Rohan Panth. In one of his Facebook posts, Ankit mentioned that his father had passed away many years ago.
Ankit Panth with his mother
Career
When Ankit was 15, he went to a gaming cafe called Boomerang in Kandivali, Mumbai. He saw people playing Counter-Strike 1.6, a video game, and was fascinated by them. After playing Counter-Strike for a while, he decided to make gaming his profession. Later, he started playing Counter-Strike GO professionally and founded several game teams. He formed his first gaming team and named it Warriors of Chaos (WOC) where he started earning money. In 2006, he formed a semi-professional team called Made in Mumbai (MiM). Ankit meets Aakash ‘RiX’ More, a popular eGamer while playing at a cafe. Later, Ankit was offered a chance to play as a substitute for Aakash’s team, which was in the top three in India at the time.
Founder of Team Esports
In 2008, Ankit and Aakash “RiX” More started the player-owned Team Brutality, an Indian professional esports team. They won their first major Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament, which was also Ankit’s first tournament win. Ankit is the founder and director of operations of Brutality. The team has won several (semi) professional tournaments while being equally popular for competing in solo titles such as Tekken, Street Fighter, Need for Speed, Forza Motorsports and the TrackMania series. Brutality has represented their team nationally and internationally and won several tournaments including ESL Cup 2014 Season 4 (Online), Lenovo India Gaming Week 2015 in Mumbai (Lan), and Tranzeneca Lan Party Championship 2016, Pune (Lan).
Ankit Panth (centre) with fellow players of Team Brutality
HyperX – Brand Ambassador
In 2022, Gaming peripherals company HyperX signed Ankit Panth as their first Indian brand ambassador. About this, HyperX said,
We have been watching and admiring his playing talent for a long time and are excited that Ankit has finally joined our ranks. With Ankit Panth as our Indian brand ambassador, we are confident that his amazing creative abilities and talents will resonate with HyperX’s mission and expand the brand’s reach to more young players who share the same passion.”
Red Bull athletes
Ankit Panth represented Red Bull as India’s first Red Bull athlete in the game. So far, he is the only Indian player to be honored as a Red Bull Athlete for esports.
Ankit Panth, India’s first Red Bull Games Athlete
Brand support and sponsorship
After realizing Ankit and his team’s skills in gaming, Dell, an American technology company, started sponsoring them. They enable Team Brutality to take their eSports capabilities to the next level using a powerful Dell gaming system to compete in further eSports events. He is known as #IntelsUltimateV3nom in the gaming world. According to Ankit, he got his break when he appeared in an eSports tournament titled ‘U Cypher with MTV,’ which 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 set of U Cypher eSports tournament with MTV India (2018)
Later, he was signed as a brand ambassador by Alienware and Intel India. Apart from playing Counter-Strike professionally, Ankit also plays GTA5, The Witcher 3, and FIFA (video game series). Ankit joined the new team in August 2021 and became part of the M42 Esports roster.
Awards & 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- Tranzeneca Gaming League Raipur – CS: GO
- 2018: Captain of the Year at the Indian Games Awards
Ankit Panth received the Best Captain Award at the India Gaming Awards 2018
Favourite
- Weapons of choice: USP-S, AK-47, and M4A4
- Chocolate: Ferrero Rocher
- Series: Bard of Blood, Money Heist, Made in Heaven and Narcos
Facts/Trivia
- He also goes 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 regimen on social media.
- Ankit is known for his great DJ skills.
- In an interview, Ankit said that he never smoked or consumed alcohol.
- Ankit’s parents had to break into their fixed savings to buy play equipment for Ankit. Her mother also had to sell her jewelry; however, after its huge success, Ankit brought them back. In an interview, Ankit said,
From crying for days to get a personal computer to now having 4 fancy systems that I can currently use. I didn’t know much at the time and I couldn’t see the future. I just know how to work and I keep doing it.”
- In OTT Gamer’s Den, Ankit revealed that when he was 15, he asked his parents for INR 20/- to go to a gaming cafe and ended up getting scolded. After that, he never asked for money and started saving money to go to gaming cafes on weekends.
- As a child, she was laughed at for her thinness and sense of dress. So, when he goes to the gaming cafe, he is amused to see how nobody cares about his physical appearance and clothes there.
Ankit Panth during his early playing days
- In an interview, Ankit said that the owner of the gaming cafe once told him that he would not charge anything from him because he wanted him to win the tournament.
- In Ankit’s Instagram post, Ankit shared his journey to becoming a successful gamer. In the post, she also talked about the obstacles she faced in this journey and said when she didn’t succeed in the game, she decided to switch to 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 numerous articles for various media houses including The Economic Times and The Times of India.
Ankit Panth was featured in The Economic Times
- In 2022, he appeared in an ad for Gillette Guard.
Ankit Panth in a still from the Gillette Guard TV ad
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