For an ordinary person, August is an ideal time for vacation in warm countries. But not for professional e -sportsmen who have a good mouth in August. For a year now, for the last month of summer, it has been just a brutal lot of championships, which cannot be missed in any way.
► QuakeCon 2013. Russian Sergey Orekhov (Evil) took second place here and won five thousand dollars.
First of all, it is The International 3 By Dota 2, WCS By Heart of the Swarm, QuakeCon 2013 and several large leagues World of Tanks. In addition, the Russian national final was held in our area World Cyber Games , Large in fighting winging tournament MFA 2013 And, of course, the cyber festival TechLabs Kiev. We hasten to tell about everything that we reached!
Olympics of the month – WCG 2013
Russian national final
From August 31 to September 1 in Moscow Youth Multifunctional Center Russian qualifications passed on World Cyber Games – annual e -sports Olympiad from Samsung. The final stage of national qualifying was supported Computer Sports Federation of Russia , as well as companies Intel And Oldi Computers.
► Official banner of the Russian National Final.
The winners of the online qualifying in five disciplines participated in the final: World of Tanks , League of Legends, Crossfire, FIFA 13 And Heart of the Swarm. Each plays trips to the WCG grand final ( Global Finals ), which, like last year, will be held in Chinese Kunshan.
The most interesting were Starcraft 2 and FIFA competitions, but in other disciplines everything was predictable. Take at least League of Legends – domestic fans wanted to see at the tournament Gambit Gaming , https://sister-site.org/gamblii/ but the strongest Russian team missed the tournament due to participation in LCS. Recall, all league teams Riot Games banned from participating in other championships, including World Cyber Games.
► spectators gathered a little, but the atmosphere of the championship was not affected by this.
In view of the absence Diamond and companies for the only ticket to China fought teams Mjaso And White horse. Although the latter included a famous Russian player and commentator Yuri Shilenkov ( Flashinthenight ), defeated precisely the "meat", which will go to China at the end of the year.
A tank team will also go to the Celestial Empire Red Rush Unity , defeating compatriots from the final M1nd. Honestly, initially almost no one believed that these groups would break into the national final, because more titled with them in the qualifying Virtus.Pro And Natus Vincere.
But both of our leaders suddenly stumbled at the preliminary stage, which surprised the entire tank community, and themselves. Match Unity And M1nd It turned out boring – both teams were in no hurry to attack and acted very passively.
► In Heart of the Swarm Brat_ok recently and has not shown close the level that he showed in Wings of Liberty.
After the tankers slightly disappointed us, the situation was a little corrected by oldcraft. There were two whole vouchers played out, and they fought for them not for life, but for death, because on world finals There will be only a few Koreans, which means there are good chances for a medal.
Favorites were listed Artem Garavtsov ( Slivko ) from Virtus.Pro and Artem Avramenko ( Verdi ) from Anexis , But both of the cherished quota did not get. To the surprise of most experts, the first place was taken by an experienced player for terrane Pavel Kuznetsov ( Brat_ok ), which has not shown outstanding results for a long time. In an insignificant finale, he won the second holder of the quota Andrei Guldyashova ( Livezerg ) representing Rox.KIS.
► tense match in FIFA 13. Sorry, we can't recognize who plays.
Well, finally, a few words about FIFA 13 And Crossfire. These games of our community were interested in less. Today, virtual football and Crossfire in Russia are almost not held in large tournaments, the influx of new players in both games is small, and popularity leaves much to be desired.
Four players also made their way to the National FIFA final, but they played only one quota, and got it Roman Eliseev ( Elinho ). Player Extremis Unitis I beat in turn XAXOTUN (2: 1), Ufenok77 (2: 0) and Aruhito73 (2: 1). It is a pity that he could not overcome the crucibles Sergey Nikiforov ( KEFIR ), the most titled Russian player and captain of the national team. He would probably give a fight to all the finalists.
Since there is no WCG 2013 Global Offensive , Neither Point Blank , The only game in the FPS genre was Crossfire. The leading teams of the country played a ticket to China in a full -time confrontation The Red And Jeremiah. Although the favorites were "edit", the mighty Chinese and Koreans will still have young animals from the Koreans Jeremiah (2: 0). Congratulations to all the winners and wish you good luck on Global Finals!
Russian team on World Cyber Games 2013: Grand Finals
World of Tanks ( Red Rush Unity )
Crossfire ( Jeremiah )
League of Legends ( Mjaso )
Alexander Ivanov ( Shanish )
Sergey Borodin
Anton Fomkin ( Runemagick )
Alexey Morozov ( Nuclear2 )
Maxim Shishak
Kirill Fireman ( Dimode )
Ivan Fokin ( PUPPEY_UNITY )
Maxim Smirnov
Dmitry Korovushkin ( Dimonko )
Anatoly Barakov ( Anatolich )
Anton Gusev
Valentin Legas ( Combic )
Denis Antipov ( Luckyrusher )
Alexander Velikanov
Valentin Zimakov ( Niksar )
Artem Dergunov ( psionic )
Alexey Zhiltsov ( Bullkin )
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
FIFA 13
Pavel Kuznetsov ( Brat_ok )
Roman Eliseev ( Elinho )
Andrey Guldyashov ( Livezerg )
Fighting of the month – MFA
Moscow Fighting Arena 2013
- Competitions by Tekken , Soulcalibur V , Injustice , Mortal Kombat and other genre games
- About 250 registered participants from Russia , Belarus And Kazakhstan and s Ukraine
- Koreans Tsoi chin y ( Saint ) And Kim Hyunzhin ( JDCR ) as invited stars
- Certificate on PlayStation 4 and other prizes from Sony , WD , TT Esports And Madcatz
- Hundreds of spectators , High -quality online Broadcast And, as always, Friendly atmosphere
► Official trailer for the Moscow Championship Moscow Fighting Arena 2013
Month team – dota 2
The Alliance on The International 3
In one of our special materials on The International 3 , We introduced you to all European teams, including the formidable five of The Alliance. Then we prophesied the Swedes with a slight hit in the four and the further struggle for the championship, simultaneously calling it almost the main hope of the entire Western world.
► There is no reason for sadness, since you are the champion The International 3.
Jonathan Berg ( Loda ) and his team completely justified the advances given to them and took first place, beating in a difficult finale Natus Vincere. The latter have a lot of fans in the CIS, but most of them took the results Grand finals calmly, after all The Alliance performed on The International 3 objectively stronger.
Many may object that, they say, Na’vi They should have won the fifth game and they themselves unmarked championship, despite the huge advantage, but let's not forget about other full -time fights. The Swedes on their heads outplayed the "born to win" in the final of the upper grid, and in the superfinal they won the first and fourth matches.
► Record of the fifth final game between The Alliance and Natus Vincere
Besides Alliance showed a phenomenal game in the group stage – fourteen victories in a row in matches against Tongfu , Invictus Gaming , Orange , Team Liquid And LGD.International. Moreover, a little later their victorious series increased to sixteen games, because in the first round of the playoffs, the Swedes beat bronze medalists The International 2 LGD.China. Phenomenal achievement, given competition in professional Dota 2.
What is entertaining, the Swedes won a large championship with a single strategy and a small number of heroes. This is what it means to squeeze the maximum from the chosen tactics and use the full potential of the selected characters!
► The International 3 Final and the emotions of both teams
For your victory The Alliance received almost one and a half million dollars, champion shield Aegis of the immortal and world recognition of the entire community. It seems that their victory pleased all the Swedes without exception, because many in this country adore computer sport and monitor all the most important events, and in addition, there are still guys that they work in the tax ..
Video of the month – CS: GO
Fragstorm 2
- Spectacular Video about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive length in more than four minutes
- Author video – famous Russian cs: s- Muvimaker Ivan Kuzkin
- Appropriate flights cameras , qualitative Musical series And good Color correction
- Beautiful moments performed by players Na’vi , NIP , Verygames and other teams
- More One hundred thousand views V YouTube in total for four to five channels
► We are convinced that today it is better than the video about cs: go cannot be found
Tanks of the month – World of Tanks
Auto Rounder, Proleague, Tournament in Volgograd
Last month, virtual tankers and the company were noted last month Wargaming. From 24 to 25 August within the framework Games COM-2013 Lan finals of the second season passed Wot Proleague. Five of the strongest groups of the European server, following the results of the online part, fought in Cologne for the championship and prize fund in one hundred thousand euros.
► Five strongest euro server teams. Not enough only dignitas.
Why five, not six, as indicated in the regulations? We answer – the existing champions of the first season Russians could not fly in Germany in a full composition Dignitas. One captain got to the place Artem Rosenko ( Stalker_ua) , The rest were faced with visa problems and stayed at home.
According to the players Dignitas , The negligence of the organizers who sent invitations for a very long time to arrive in Germany on time. Because of this delay, one of the players did not have time to submit documents for the Schengen visa, and some were refused in it.
► Record of the final confrontation of virtus.Pro and Evil Panda Squad
Without Dignitas The finals of the second season ended with a predicted victory Virtus.Pro. Silver winners of the first season began their way to the championship with a semifinal game against the average in the strength of the Latvian team Denova.Wot (The composition there, however, Russians and Ukrainians) and was almost sensational not lost.
[[Bullet]] virtus.Pro – champions of the second season WOT PROLEAGUE!
After four matches, the assets of both teams had two won cards, and the fate of the finalist decided on the location "Rudniki". The round turned out to be simply lightning fast – the heavy cars of both teams rushed to the mountain, where the decisive battle ensued. Thanks to more competent positions, the shootout won Virtus.Pro.
In the final Dmitry Salomatin (K23emelka) and the company was opposed by the strongest team of Poland Evil Panda Squad. Virtus.Pro confidently outplayed Polish tankers, giving them only one card with four won. The third finish line crossed the caterpillars of tanks of the Serbian team Kazna Kru. Congratulations to all the winners!
The final location of the teams on Wot Proleague Season 2 Finals:
- Virtus.Pro (Russia) – 50,000 euros
- Evil Panda Squad (Poland) – 21,000 euros
- Kazna Kru (Serbia) – 15,000 euros
- Denova.Wot (Latvia) – 8000 euros
- mousesports (Poland) – 3000 euros
Bye Virtus.Pro And the Poles found out in Cologne, who was stronger, in Volgograd, a local tournament was held with a large scope " Tanks-2 time ". About two thousand spectators visited it, and fifty teams participated in the qualifying stage. True, only four made it to the final: 3ko , Funfun-Gaming , Black shark And CTENA.
It was the latter who later later took the first place, but it is not as interesting as what we later learned from the organizers. According to them, in Volgograd (former Stalingrad , if anyone has forgotten) now 141 339 players in World of Tanks – About fourteen percent of the total population. Here you have a hero city!
► Ceremony of awarding prize-winners of "Tanks-2 Time".
In addition to " Time of tanks-2 "In the west of Russia, another interesting event took place in August, or rather, a car. He was dedicated Kursk battle And passed along the route: Kursk – Yakovlevo – Prokhorovka – Belgorod. After the rally, all participants could chat with the developers of the World of Tanks in a specially equipped tent camp. In general, everything is as it should and without excesses!
Event of the month – Dota 2
The International 3
- Seattle Collected sixteen strongest teams of the planet in the game in Dota 2
- The whole championship from a to me was organized directly company Valve
- All put up for sale Tickets In Benaraiy-Hall were redeemed in a couple of minutes
- The prize fund of the tournament – 2 874 407 $
- Champions Swedes became The Alliance , Natus Vincere – The second , u Orange bronze
► The unofficial MUVIK THE International 3. Watch for nostalgia.
Apdet of the month – CS: GO
Muffler and multi -colored weapon
Global Offensive recently celebrated his first birthday, and this year for the creators of the game turned out to be very difficult. The last few months Valve They rackled how to make the game more popular and profitable, but in the end they decided not to invent a bicycle, but to enter into the game what was supposed to be there originally.
► People's craftsmen have already begun to release national modifications, they soon promise to make Russian and Ukrainian versions.
This, of course, is about the muffler, which has long been reproduced by everything CS- community. 359 days after the official release, he still appeared, however, not at all as we expected. Not wanting to admit their own mistakes, the creators of the "global offensive" abandoned the idea of a muffler from CS1.6 / CS: S and added another rifle – American M4A1 with a removable muffler and twenty rounds in a clip.
The old good M4A4 with ammunition of thirty rounds, but the muffler will not work on it. You will not be able to even buy two different “Emki” on one map – it remains to choose weapons of the dead comrades. The gun was introduced into the game USP , Well, at least here the muffler is available.
► The new card de_TRain_ve is made to replace the existing de_TRain
In addition to gameplay innovations in August CS: GO received several cosmetic improvements. Now players randomly fall out multi -colored weapons and even whole boxes with different rifles. You can open them with paid keys, and the so -called “Esports Case” often fall out, the money from which will go to the prize funds of future championships. It is not known, however, which ones. Really awaits us The International By CS: GO?
And finally – about the new map de_train_ve from Salvatore Harozzo ( Volcano ). Ex-player Team 3D significantly redrawn the unbalanced card from Valve and brought it as much as possible to the one that we know by CS 1.6. He finally made high wagons (now you can crawl under them) and moved the place of laying the bomb deep. From now on, you will have to install explosives under the "fifth line". It is a pity that the card has not yet been added to the matchmaking match.
Girl of the month – dota 2
Na’vi Ladies.Perfectvoid
- Anastasia Dmitrenko ( Perfectvoid ) – captain women's composition Natus Vincere According to Dota 2
- Before joining Na’vi Played V team Ownedby.Pro , True, she did not last long
- Still Nastya " Captain " V Darer – strongest in the past Women's team of the CIS
- In the game behaves Reasonable , But it remains impulsive In the little things
- They say that once she I turned my head Captain Na’vi Ivan Antonov ( Artstyle )
► If you were told that she is perfectly played Dota 2, you would believe?
Month festival – TechLabs Cup
Tournament in the capital of Ukraine
The next stop of the Belarusian cyber -country TechLabs Cup on a grand scale I went through the Ukrainian capital on the last day of summer. The venue chose the shopping and entertainment center Dreamtown , The dimensions of which allowed everyone to accept everyone. The scene and slender rows of chairs for the audience were equipped right on the site of the rink.
► Home Chief of Kyiv TechLabs Cup? Wide screen!
The official disciplines of steel Dota 2 , League of Legends , World of Tanks , Shadow Company, CS: GO And Starcraft 2. We pay special attention to the last two, because it was they who were betting the organizers who invited the Swedes to Kyiv Fnatic and quite famous South Korean strategist Myi.Stardut.
To confront foreign guests should have been newly formed (on the bones Na’vi And Virtus.Pro ) Ukrainian-Russian-Kazakh team Astana Dragons and a trio of strategists: Dmitry Kostin ( Happy ), Evgeny Oparyshev ( Strelok ) And Mikhail Gaida ( KAS ). They played not for the idea, but for good money for show-matches: strategists for a thousand dollars each, and teams in Counter-Strike-for sponsorship prizes worth three thousand evergreen.
► tense faces of Astana Dragons players.
Unfortunately, fights for Starcraft 2 We could not see, but behind a historical debut Astana Dragons We watched LAN very carefully. I am pleased that the “All-Stars” of the entire CIS confidently won the Swedes according to the results of three cards, which probably cheered up their mood the day before Dreamhack Buchart.
It is a pity that only the guest from South Korea could only defeat Empire.KAS , And here Strelok And Happy Similarly lost to the Asian to the Zaid. In other disciplines, they won TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE (Dota 2), Helpers (Shadow Company), Rays of Deads (League of legends) and M1nd (WOT). The latter, by the way, took revenge from Unity for the defeat of a week ago in the Russian final WCG.
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