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Natus Vincere
Natus Vincere (Latin for "born to win"), commonly referred as abbreviated name 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 2'', ''Dota 2'', ''FIFA (video game series), FIFA'', ''Brawl Stars'', ''World of Tanks'', ''Paladins (video game), Paladins'', ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'', ''Clash of Clans,'' Apex Legends'', ''Rainbow Six Siege, ''Mobile Legends: Bang Bang'', Fortnite Battle Royale, Fortnite, ''Valorant, VALORANT'', and ''League of Legends''. NAVI's ''VALORANT'' team is currently a partnered member of Valorant Champions Tour, VCT EMEA, while their ''MLBB'' division is a franchised team in MPL Indonesia and their ''League'' division is a franchised team in the League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC). ''Counter-Strike'' division History 2009: Formation In October 2009, Murat "Arbalet" Zhumashevich declared the creation of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2,952,301, making Kyiv the List of European cities by population within city limits, seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center. It is home to many High tech, high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and historical landmarks. The city has an extensive system of Transport in Kyiv, public transport and infrastructure, including the Kyiv Metro. The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders. During History of Kyiv, its history, Kyiv, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of prominence and obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial center as early as the 5th century. A Slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly referred to as ''League'', is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League''s main mode, Su ... [...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, played individually or as teams. Multiplayer competitions were long a part of video game culture, but were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s when the advent of online streaming media platforms, particularly YouTube and Twitch (service), Twitch, enabled a surge in participation by professional gamers and spectators. By the 2010s, esports was a major part of the video game industry, with many game developers designing for and funding for tournaments and other events. Esports first became popular in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea (which first licensed professional players in 2000) but less so in Japan, whose broad Gambling in Japan, anti-gambling laws prohibit professional gaming tournaments. Esports are also popular in Europe and the Americas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter-Strike Major Championships
''Counter-Strike'' Major Championships, commonly known as the Majors, are '' Counter-Strike'' (CS) esports tournaments sponsored by Valve, the game's developer. The first Valve-recognized Major took place in 2013 in Jönköping, Sweden and was hosted by DreamHack with a total prize pool of split among 16 teams. This, along with the following 19 Majors, was played in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''. As of the 2023 release of ''Counter-Strike 2'' (CS2), ''Counter-Strike'' esports, including the Majors, are played in CS2. Since then, the Major circuit has expanded significantly, with recent tournaments advertising a prize pool and featuring thirty-two teams from around the world. The Majors are considered to be the most important and prestigious tournaments in the Counter-Strike scene. The current champions are Team Spirit, who won their first Major at the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, the second to be held in ''Counter-Strike 2''. Astralis hold the record for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The International (Dota 2)
The International (TI) is an annual esports world championship for the five-on-five video game ''Dota 2''. Produced by the game's developer Valve, the International is the final event of the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) and consists of 20 teams: 12 based on final results from the DPC; six from North America, South America, Southeast Asia, China, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe regional leagues; and two from last-chance qualifiers. The International was first held in Germany at the 2011 Gamescom to promote the game's release. It was then held in Seattle, where Valve is headquartered, until it began to be hosted internationally again starting with The International 2018 in Vancouver. The tournament's prize pool has been crowdfunded via a battle pass system within the game since 2013, with a quarter of all revenue from it directly going towards it. Internationals have the largest single-tournament prize pool of any esport event, with largest reaching 40 million. The most recent cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekken 8
is a 2024 fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Arika and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the eighth main installment (and tenth overall entry) in the ''Tekken'' series and the first one to debut on home systems instead of Arcade game, arcades. Game testing, Game tests were held starting in July 2023 before the final game was released for the PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on January 26, 2024. The base game's story mode, titled ''The Dark Awakens'', takes place six months after the events of Tekken 7, its predecessor and focuses on the final confrontation between main protagonist Jin Kazama and main antagonist Kazuya Mishima, as well as the introduction of late Heihachi Mishima's daughter, Reina. Jin's mother Jun Kazama also appears alive in her first canon appearance since ''Tekken 2''. Meanwhile, an additional story mode titled ''Unforgettable Echoes'' focuses on Lidia Sobieska, Eddy Gordo, and Characters of the Tekken series#Yoshimits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Tanks
''World of Tanks'' (''WoT'') is an armoured warfare-themed multiplayer online game developed by Wargaming, featuring 20th century (1910s–1970s) era combat vehicles. It is built upon a freemium business model where the game is free-to-play, but participants also have the option of paying a fee for use of "premium" features. The focus is on player vs. player gameplay with each player controlling an armored vehicle, from the time of Pre-World War 2 to the Cold War-era. ''World of Tanks'' has been ported to multiple gaming consoles. The PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One version, called ''World of Tanks: Modern Armor'' (formerly World of Tanks: Valor), was developed by studio Wargaming West. ''World of Tanks'' has also expanded to mobile platforms under the title ''World of Tanks Blitz'', in addition to a board game titled ''World of Tanks Rush'' and a collectible card game titled ''World of Tanks: Generals''. ''World of Tanks'' was followed by '' World of Warplanes'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VALORANT
''Valorant'' is a 2020 First-person shooter, first-person tactical shooter, tactical hero shooter video game developed and published by Riot Games. A free-to-play game, ''Valorant'' takes inspiration from the ''Counter-Strike'' series, borrowing several mechanics such as the buy menu, spray patterns, and inaccuracy while moving. Development started in 2014 and was teased under the codename ''Project A'' in 2019; the game was released on June 2, 2020 for Microsoft Windows, Windows. It was ported to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox Series X/S in June 2024, albeit without Cross-platform play, crossplay between PC and console clients. Gameplay ''Valorant'' is a team-based First-person shooter, first-person tactical shooter, tactical hero shooter set in the near future. Players play as one of a set of Agents, characters based on several countries and cultures around the world. In the main game mode, players are assigned to either the attacking or defending t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocket League
''Rocket League'' is a 2015 vehicular Association football, soccer video game developed and published by Psyonix for various home consoles and computers. A sequel to 2008's ''Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars'', ''Rocket League'' features up to eight players assigned to each of the two teams, using "rocket-powered" vehicles to hit a ball into their opponent's goal and score points over the course of a match. The game includes single-player and multiplayer modes that can be played both locally and online, including cross-platform play between all versions. Psyonix began formal development of ''Rocket League'' around 2013, refining the gameplay from ''Battle-Cars'' to address criticism and fan input. Psyonix also recognized their lack of marketing from ''Battle-Cars'' and engaged in both social media and promotions to market the game. ''Rocket League'' was first released on the PlayStation Store and Steam (service), Steam for PlayStation 4 and Windows respectively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Six Siege
''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege'' is a 2015 tactical shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. The game puts heavy emphasis on environmental destruction and cooperation between players. Each player assumes control of an attacker or a defender in different gameplay modes such as rescuing a hostage, defusing a bomb, or taking control of an objective within a room. The title has no campaign but features offline training modes that can be played solo. ''Siege'' is an entry in the '' Rainbow Six'' series and the successor to '' Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots'', a tactical shooter that had a larger focus on narrative. After ''Patriots'' was eventually cancelled due to its technical shortcomings, Ubisoft decided to reboot the franchise. The team evaluated the core of the ''Rainbow Six'' franchise and believed that letting players impersonate the top counter-terrorist operatives around the world suited the game most. To create authentic siege situations, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
