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Arteezy
Artour Babaev, better known as Arteezy, is a Canadian professional '' Dota 2'' player for Shopify Rebellion. He is also one of the most popular streamers among the community. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Babaev showed much promise as a child, reached the highest matchmaking rating leaderboards in public matches. In November 2013, he made his professional debut in MLG Columbus as a stand-in for Speed Gaming. In January 2014, Babaev, along with North American Dota players Universe and Fear, as well as former ''Heroes of Newerth'' players ppd and zai created "S A D B O Y S" , who were later signed by Evil Geniuses. History 2013: Early career On November 22, 2013, Arteezy had the opportunity to stand in for bOne7, who was unable to attend due to visa issues, and play for his previous team Speed Gaming (formerly Kaipi) at MLG Columbus. Arteezy handily defeated several more well-established midlaners, including Mushi and Dendi, en route to an underdog victory for Speed Gaming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Secret
Team Secret is an esports team based in Europe formed in 2014, best known for their ''Dota 2'' team. In March 2016, Team Secret picked up an international female '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' team. In April 2016, Team Secret expanded into the world of '' Street Fighter'' with Lee "Poongko" Chung-Gon as their first World Warrior, and also signed Otto "Silent Wolf" Bisno as a ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player. In July 2018 Team Secret entered into competitive '' Age of Empires 2'' after acquiring key members from Team TyRanT. In August 2018, Team Secret expanded into '' Rainbow Six Siege'' Pro League by signing Team IDK. ''Dota 2'' History 2014 N0tail and Fly were confirmed to leave Fnatic on July 27, 2014. On August 3, 2014, s4 left Alliance. Some rumors of a new all-star team began to rise on Reddit. Na`Vi posted on their website they released Puppey and KuroKy. On August 27, 2014, Team Secret debuted and showed their roster in a match against Alliance. 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ppd (video Game Player)
Peter Dager, better known as ppd, is an American former professional '' Dota 2'' player. He was the former CEO of the esports organization Evil Geniuses, where he also won The International 2015 as a player-captain, later playing for OpTic Gaming and Ninjas in Pyjamas. Playing career ''Heroes of Newerth'' Dager began his esports career with ''Heroes of Newerth'' (''HoN'') in 2010, where he initially played under the alias "peterpandam" (which later became the acronym 'ppd'). He got vouched into the Fragment Inhouse League, where he reached the top of the competitive leaderboard; afterwards, he was invited to play for North American team SGty. With the team, he won North American Star League Season 2. Prior to playing in DreamHoN Winter 2011, Dager was kicked from the team. Dager joined his first professional team Trademark eSports in 2012. He began to experiment with many other teams until he found a more solid position with compLexity in Summer 2012. Dager came in second place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses (EG) is an American esports organization based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1999, the organization has fielded players in various fighting games, ''Call of Duty'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Dota 2'', '' Fortnite Battle Royale'', ''Halo,'' ''League of Legends'', '' StarCraft II'', '' Rocket League'', '' Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege'', and ''World of Warcraft''. In May 2019, EG was acquired by PEAK6 Investments LLC, a Chicago-based investment company. While independently owned at the time of the acquisition, it was formerly a subsidiary of GoodGame Agency, which in turn was owned by Amazon.com through its division Twitch. EG's ''Dota 2'' squad won The International 2015, receiving the largest prize payout in esports history at the time. Their ''Call of Duty: WWII'' roster won the 2018 Call of Duty Championship. History Evil Geniuses was founded as a Quake clan in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1997. Playing from the first cyber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fear (video Gamer)
Clinton Loomis, better known as Fear, is an American professional ''Dota 2'' player and former coach. With a career spanning a decade, Fear is one of the oldest ''Dota'' players in the scene. He was featured alongside Danil "Dendi" Ishutin and Benedict Lim "hyhy" Han Yong in the documentary '' Free to Play''. With Evil Geniuses, he won over a million dollars as the winners of The International 2015. History ''Dota'' Fear's first team was called PluG Pullers Inc., and they were picked up by CompLexity Gaming in 2006. After the compLexity Dota division was shut down in 2007, Fear reformed PluG Pullers, but left the team when he was asked to join Meet Your Makers. Fear was a member of MYM for a year, and he left the team a few weeks before the organization went bankrupt. His next stop was Evil Geniuses, which lasted from March to December 2009 before the Dota division was disbanded. Fear then joined a star-studded Blight.int team, which changed sponsors before disbanding over sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fear (video Game Player)
Clinton Loomis, better known as Fear, is an American professional ''Dota 2'' player and former coach. With a career spanning a decade, Fear is one of the oldest ''Dota'' players in the scene. He was featured alongside Danil "Dendi" Ishutin and Benedict Lim "hyhy" Han Yong in the documentary '' Free to Play''. With Evil Geniuses, he won over a million dollars as the winners of The International 2015. History ''Dota'' Fear's first team was called PluG Pullers Inc., and they were picked up by CompLexity Gaming in 2006. After the compLexity Dota division was shut down in 2007, Fear reformed PluG Pullers, but left the team when he was asked to join Meet Your Makers. Fear was a member of MYM for a year, and he left the team a few weeks before the organization went bankrupt. His next stop was Evil Geniuses, which lasted from March to December 2009 before the Dota division was disbanded. Fear then joined a star-studded Blight.int team, which changed sponsors before disbanding over sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universe (video Game Player)
Saahil Arora, better known as Universe, is an American former professional ''Dota 2'' player. He was a member of the Evil Geniuses team that won The International 2015. History Universe began his ''Dota'' career in 2011. Universe finished 9th at The International 2013 as a member of Team Dignitas. He finished 3rd at The International 2014 and won The International 2015, both as a member of Evil Geniuses (EG), and made the series-clinching play known as the "6 Million Dollar Echo Slam". EG also finished third at the Frankfurt Major 2015. Evil Geniuses took third place at the Shanghai Major 2016. In March 2016, Arteezy and UNiVeRsE left the team to join Team Secret. He would then leave Team Secret to rejoin Evil Geniuses after the end of the Manila Major 2016 in June, effectively trading places with Sam "Bulba" Sosale. Evil Geniuses also won the Manila Masters tournament in May 2017. Later on The International 2017 tournament, EG got a 9th-12th finish. During post-tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universe (video Gamer)
Saahil Arora, better known as Universe, is an American former professional ''Dota 2'' player. He was a member of the Evil Geniuses team that won The International 2015. History Universe began his ''Dota'' career in 2011. Universe finished 9th at The International 2013 as a member of Team Dignitas. He finished 3rd at The International 2014 and won The International 2015, both as a member of Evil Geniuses (EG), and made the series-clinching play known as the "6 Million Dollar Echo Slam". EG also finished third at the Frankfurt Major 2015. Evil Geniuses took third place at the Shanghai Major 2016. In March 2016, Arteezy and UNiVeRsE left the team to join Team Secret. He would then leave Team Secret to rejoin Evil Geniuses after the end of the Manila Major 2016 in June, effectively trading places with Sam "Bulba" Sosale. Evil Geniuses also won the Manila Masters tournament in May 2017. Later on The International 2017 tournament, EG got a 9th-12th finish. During post-tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tashkent
Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2,909,500 (2022). It is in northeastern Uzbekistan, near the border with Kazakhstan. Tashkent comes from the Turkic ''tash'' and ''kent'', literally translated as "Stone City" or "City of Stones". Before Islamic influence started in the mid-8th century AD, Tashkent was influenced by the Sogdian and Turkic cultures. After Genghis Khan destroyed it in 1219, it was rebuilt and profited from the Silk Road. From the 18th to the 19th century, the city became an independent city-state, before being re-conquered by the Khanate of Kokand. In 1865, Tashkent fell to the Russian Empire; it became the capital of Russian Turkestan. In Soviet times, it witnessed major growth and demographic changes due to forced deportations from throughout the Sov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Plate, North American Tectonic Plate, Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about , about 16.5% of Earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 579 million people in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In Americas (terminology)#Human ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecumenical News
Ecumenical News International (ENI) was a news agency that was launched in 1994 as a global news service reporting on ecumenical developments and other news of the churches, and giving religious perspectives on news developments worldwide. The agency was based at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, which is also the headquarters of several Protestant and ecumenical Ecumenism (), also spelled oecumenism, is the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity. The adjec ... organizations. A shortage of funds led to the suspension of ENI's work in 2012. As of 2015 the work of ENI has remained suspended and the website has been discontinued. External linksEcumenical News International [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The International 2019
The International 2019 (TI9) was the ninth iteration of The International, an annual ''Dota 2'' world championship esports tournament. Hosted by Valve, the game's developer, the tournament followed a year-long series of awarding qualifying points, known as the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC), with the top 12 ranking teams being directly invited to the tournament, which took place in August 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. In addition, six more teams earned invites through regional qualifiers played in July 2019. The grand finals took place between Team Liquid and OG, who had respectively won the International's 2017 and 2018 events. There, OG defeated Team Liquid 3–1 in the best-of-five series to become the first-ever repeat champion of an International. As with every International from 2013 onwards, the prize pool was crowdfunded by the ''Dota 2'' community via its battle pass feature, with the total at over 34 million. In addition, various related activities were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The International 2018
The International 2018 (TI8) was the eighth iteration of The International, an annual ''Dota 2'' world championship esports tournament. Hosted by Valve, the game's developer, TI8 followed a year-long series of tournaments awarding qualifying points, known as the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC), with the top eight ranking teams being directly invited to the tournament. In addition, ten more teams earned invites through qualifiers that were held in June 2018, with the group stage and main event played at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver in August. The best-of-five grand finals took place between OG and PSG.LGD, with OG winning the series 3–2. Their victory was considered a Cinderella and underdog success story, as they had come from the open qualifiers and were not favored to win throughout the competition. As with every International from 2013 onwards, the prize pool was crowdfunded by the ''Dota 2'' community via its battle pass feature, with the total being over 25 million, making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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