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Virtus.pro
Virtus.pro (VP) is an international esports organization founded in 2003 in Russia and acquired by Armenian investors in 2022. The organization has players competing in such games as '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' Dota 2'', ''Rainbow Six Siege'', ''PUBG Mobile'', and '' Warface''. Virtus.pro's ''Dota 2'' team has participated in multiple Majors, winning record (tied with Team Secret) 5 of them and becoming the best Dota Pro Circuit first season team. Their ''League of Legends'' team won LCL Spring 2017. VP's former Polish ''CS:GO'' team is considered one of the best teams in the history of ''Counter-Strike'', winning the EMS One Katowice 2014 Major, IEM Rio Major 2022 (as ''Outsiders'') and several other premier tournaments. Ownership and naming In November 2015, the team got an investment of over US$100,000,000 from Alisher Usmanov's USM Holdings. From 2015 to 2022 Virtus.pro was part of the ESforce Holding (and also part of VK). In March 2022 Virtus.pro cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMS One Katowice 2014
Electronic Sports League Major Series One Katowice 2014, also known as EMS One Katowice 2014, was the second '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' Major Championship. The tournament was held from March 13–16, 2014 at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It was organized by Electronic Sports League and sponsored by the game's developers Valve. The tournament had a total prize pool of . The Polish roster of Virtus.pro won the event by beating Ninjas in Pyjamas in the finals. EMS One Katowice 2014 was streamed on Twitch and had a peak of over 250,000 concurrent viewers. Format The top eight teams from Dreamhack Winter 2013 qualified as Legends. Two teams were directly invited to participate in the tournament, while the remaining six teams qualified through an online qualifier that consisted of sixteen teams. Teams were split up into four groups, and all group matches were best-of-ones. The highest seed would play the lowest seed in each group and the seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip "Neo" Kubski
Filip Borys Kubski (born June 15, 1987), better known as NEO, is a Polish player of the ''Counter-Strike'' series who is currently playing for Honoris. NEO is considered to be one of the best players in ''Counter-Strike'' history. He was also one of the "Golden Five" group of Polish ''CS'' players. Most recently he was the in-game leader for FaZe Clan. He has played for Virtus.pro, AGAiN, Universal Soldiers, ESC Gaming, Frag eXecutors, Vitriolic, Wicked eSports, Meet Your Makers, and Pentagram G-Shock. Kubski has been playing professionally since 2004. NEO is considered to be a mechanically gifted player, with an intelligent mind for the game. Kubski is also considered to be very good at '' Counter-Strike 1.6s in-game movement, which makes him difficult to counter. In 2010, HLTV users voted Kubski the greatest ''Counter-Strike'' player of the decade. He also won the eSports Award for eSports Player of the Year in 2007 and 2008, and was rated by HLTV.org as the best player of 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESL One Cologne 2014
Electronic Sports League One Cologne 2014, also known as ESL One Cologne 2014, was the third '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' Major Championship. The tournament was held during Gamescom 2014 from August 14–17, 2014 at the Cologne Exhibition Centre in Cologne, Germany. It was the second ''CS:GO'' Major of 2014. It was organized by Electronic Sports League with sponsorship from Valve. The tournament had a total prize pool of US$250,000. Ninjas in Pyjamas won the event by beating Fnatic 2–1 in the finals. The tournament was livestreamed on the official ESL Twitch channel. Over 400,000 concurrent viewers watched the grand finals, while 2,950,600 total unique viewers watched the event across four days. Format The top seven teams from EMS One Katowice 2014 qualified as Legends. LGB eSports would have had a Legends spot as the eighth finalist from Katowice 2014, but disbanded before Cologne 2015. Six teams from Europe, one team from North America, one team from the Oceanic regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IEM Rio Major 2022
The Intel Extreme Masters Season XVII – Rio Major 2022, also known as IEM Rio Major 2022 or Rio 2022, was the eighteenth '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' Major Championship. It was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between October 31 and November 13, 2022. Outsiders won the Major, defeating Heroic in the final 2–0. Background The Major was originally scheduled to take place from May 11 to May 24, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Valve and ESL postponed the Major to November. Because Valve generally sponsors two Majors per year, the delayed Major was to have a 2,000,000 prize pool, making it the largest prize pool in CS:GO Major history. In September 2020, Valve and ESL announced that the Major was canceled because of continued complications from the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. In January 2021, Valve announced that PGL Major Stockholm 2021 would be the next Major instead. On September 15, 2021, ESL published the 2022 ESL Pro Tour Road Map, announcing its in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Continental League
The ''League of Legends'' Continental League (LCL; ) is the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' competition in the Commonwealth of Independent States, organized by Riot Games Russia. It replaced the SLTV StarSeries that was organized by StarLadder in 2016. There are eight teams in the league. Each annual season of play is divided into two splits, spring and summer, both consisting of five weeks of double round-robin tournament play, which then conclude with a play-off single elimination tournament between the top four teams. The winners of each split qualifies for the Mid-Season Invitational and the World Championship. Prize pool of the competition in 2016 and 2017 amounts ₽4,5 million per season. Results As SLTV StarSeries As LCL See also * ''League of Legends Championship Series The League Championship Series (LCS) is the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada. The esports league is run by Riot Games and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natus Vincere
Natus Vincere (Latin for "born to win"), abbreviated NAVI (formerly Na`Vi), is a Ukrainian esports organization based in Kyiv. Founded in 2009, the organization has teams and players competing in various games, such as ''Counter Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Dota 2'', ''FIFA (video game series), FIFA'', ''World of Tanks'', ''Paladins (video game), Paladins'', ''League of Legends: Wild Rift'', ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'', ''Apex Legends'', ''Rainbow Six Siege, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Fortnite Battle Royale, Fortnite, and Valorant, VALORANT''. Na'Vi's ''Counter-Strike'' team was the first in history to win three premier tournaments—Intel Extreme Masters, Electronic Sports World Cup, and World Cyber Games 2010—in one calendar year. Their ''Dota 2'' squad won The International 2011, becoming the most successful esports organization at the time. ''Counter-Strike'' division History 2009: Formation In October 2009, Murat "Arbalet" Zhumashevich declared the creation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VK (company)
VK, known as Mail.ru Group until 12 October 2021, is a Russian technology company. It started in 1998 as an e-mail service and went on to become a major corporate figure in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. VK operates an e-mail service, an Internet portal Mail.ru, and popular Russian social networking platforms VK, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir. Additionally, VK manages various e-commerce, transport and communication platforms. It also offers business-oriented products, including a corporate email and communication system. In 2014, VK's sites reached approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis and the company was in the top 5 of the largest Internet companies based on the number of total pages viewed. In October 2021, Mail.ru Group was renamed VK Company Limited, after its most popular product, VKontakte. History The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although organized competitions have long been a part of video game culture, these were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s, when participation by professional gamers and spectatorship in these events through live streaming saw a large surge in popularity. By the 2010s, esports was a significant factor in the video game industry, with many game developers actively designing and providing funding for tournaments and other events. The most common video game genres associated with esports are multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), fighting, card, battle royale and real-time strategy (RTS) games. Popular esports franchises include ''League of Legends'', ''Dota'', ''Counter-Strike'', ''Valorant'', ''Overwatch'', ''Str ... [...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 Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter-Strike In Esports
Professional ''Counter-Strike'' competition involves Esports, professional gamers competing in the first-person shooter game series ''Counter-Strike''. The Counter-Strike (video game), original game, released in 1999, is a Mod (video gaming), mod developed by Minh Le, Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess Cliffe of the 1998 video game ''Half-Life (video game), Half-Life'', published by Valve Corporation, Valve. Currently, the games that have been played competitively include ''Counter-Strike (video game), Counter-Strike'' (CS also called CS 1.6), ''Counter-Strike: Condition Zero'' (CS:CZ), ''Counter-Strike: Source'' (CS:S) and ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (CS:GO). Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships, Major championships began in 2001 with the Cyberathlete Professional League Winter Championship, won by Ninjas in Pyjamas. History The ''Counter-Strike'' series has over 20 years of competitive history beginning with the original Counter-Strike (video game), ''Counter-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninjas In Pyjamas
Ninjas in Pyjamas (NIP) is a professional esports organisation based in Sweden that is best known for its ''Counter-Strike'' teams. In 2012, the team reformed with a '' Counter Strike: Global Offensive'' lineup upon the release of the game. Aside from ''Counter-Strike'', the organisation has teams in ''Valorant'', ''Rainbow Six Siege'', ''FIFA'', and ''League of Legends''. They formerly had teams in ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', ''Overwatch'', ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'' and ''Paladins''. History Ninjas in Pyjamas were formed in June 2000. Their biggest success was winning the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League World Championships after an extremely close final with X3 (a forerunner to Team 3D). Ninjas in Pyjamas struggled to find a sponsor, and as a result, joined the prominent esports organization SK Gaming and were known by the names SK Scandinavia and later SK Sweden. At SK, they continued their success. The prize money from their tournament victories in 2003 total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (russian: Алишер Бурханович Усманов; born 9 September 1953) is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman and oligarch. By 2022, Usmanov had an estimated net worth of $19.5 billion and was among the world's 100 wealthiest people. Usmanov made his wealth after the collapse of the Soviet Union, through metal and mining operations, and investments. He is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC Metalloinvest's assets (Mikhailovsky GOK and Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant). He owns the Kommersant publishing house. He is also a co-owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and owner of Udokan copper which develops one of the largest copper deposits in the world. Usmanov eventually teamed up with Yuri Milner and became the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies ("DST"). On 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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