The preliminary and current composition of "Virtus.pro DotA 2"

After the most popular tournament The International Dota 2 Championship took a month, and therefore almost all the teams and their compositions were formed completely. The period of decisions was, as usual, tense and intriguing. Many collectives tried to assign themselves mythical players, and some even shouted about the collapse. Nevertheless, the current lineup "Virtus.pro DotA 2" is ready to enter the cyberspace arena and fight for prizes. As it will look, we learn further.

Each team went through a thorny path to formation and formation. Many players from the CIS have played with each other in different teams, changed teams and tried to achieve success. Before we find out what the new composition "Virtus.pro DotA 2" is, let us recall a bit of the history of this organization.

How it all began

And it began in the distant 2003. The first participants of the producer center were the players in "Counter Strike". The guys went a long way, participated in different tournaments and glorified the organization. This lasted until 2007. In May, another team was created - already in the DoTA discipline. Since this game did not achieve such stunning successes as its second series, the team did not participate much and received prizes.

Despite the fact that the organizations of the organization performed more or less successfully, at the same time terrible problems started, from which the team "Virtus.pro" was able to release only in 2011. Again victories and defeats began, but again, before the appearance of DotA 2, all successes of the Bears were more connected with CS'om.

"Dota 2"

But in 2012 they opened the very new discipline, which now collects huge money - "Dota 2". Then they got very strong players: NS, KuroKy, Santa, AZEN and Dread. The guys were able to beat serious rivals and go to DreamHack.

After a while and a series of failures, Dota 2 players began to change again. All this was due to the unjustified expectations of the fans. Composition "Virtus.pro DotA 2" received an invite to TI 2013, but there and could not show itself in all its glory. As a result, NS and Smile remained in the team, the latter signed at the beginning of the year.

Uneasy times

In 2014, it was also very difficult. Before TI14 there was little, and the team changed players like gloves. LightOfHeaven replaced the newcomer JotM, also returned to the Illidan team. Before the tournament, the guys could even celebrate a couple of tournaments. On qualifications for the world championship "Virtus.pro" reached the Wild Card and left for Seattle with great hopes. But they lost to the Koreans, and did not get to the main event.

Such failures significantly undermined the spirit of the team, and its old-timers NS and Smile announced the end of their cybersport career. Illidan left the collective for the second time. They were replaced by BzzIsPerfect, yol and Sedoy in the "Bears" team. Meanwhile, Illidan found himself another team, which later management Virtusov decided to sign as a subsidiary and call Polar. Now the "bears" had two teams that fought successfully enough and made their contribution to the history of the organization.

New victories

Composition "Virtus.pro DotA 2" again underwent a change. By TI 2015 were signed Fng, Illidan, Lil, God and DkPhobos. The team began to win major tournaments and take prizes. For such merit the organizers of the world championship did not ignore the team, and the guys got a direct invite to the tournament. This time everything turned out the best way. The team fought and fought as best they could, eventually the team took the 5-6th place, which became a very large and significant achievement.

Taste of victory

Not everyone can survive a succession of such victories. And it happened: the current lineup of "Virtus.pro DotA 2" in 2015 could not meet for the season, and so success was replaced by stagnation. No changes had any effect on the victories. Serious tournaments have completely ceased to exist for the collective. Competition, which still managed to pass, ended, not having time to start.

This state of affairs, naturally, could not lead to direct invasion of TI 2016. Therefore, the guys again had to struggle in qualifications to get a slot for the main event. But even here the team was waiting for the rout and sad failure. After such defeats the team disbanded, and the fans began to wait for the new lineup "Virtus.pro DotA 2" in 2016.

Truth or rumors?

Now it is unclear whether the organizers decided that they chose the most powerful and successful players, or simply wanted to establish a "high-level", but the preliminary composition of "Virtus.pro DotA 2" was announced two weeks before the end of TI 2016.

July 31, the organization officially announced the recruitment of players. The managers decided to leave the old-timer of the God team, who for the last three years has been serving the collective and organization of the "bears". Next went the newcomers - the left team Vega Squadron Solo and No [o] ne also took the place in "Virtuses".

The organization announced another player - Lil, and a surprise for many fans was the involvement of the famous "Navishnika" Alexander "XBOCT" Dashkevich.

This line-up of the Virtus.pro DotA 2 team in 2016 looked convincing enough and was liked by many fans of the Bears. But, as we remember, this is only a preliminary set of players.

Formation

A few days later, on August 5th, the organizers announced the final formation of the collective. As a result, the composition of "Virtus.pro DotA 2" in 2016 was the following.

Vladimir No [o] ne Minenko still returned to his already familiar middle line. The fact is that in the announced composition he had to play the role of kerry. His former teammate for Vega Squadron, and now the current in Virtus.pro G2A Alexei Solo Berezin was awarded the captain's "bandage" and all the same role. Ilya Lil Iliyuk took his usual position and along with the captain of the team became another support.

But newcomers who were not announced in the preliminary staff and replaced the old-timer Sergei God Bragin, as well as all beloved Alexander "XBOCT" Dashkevich, became no less popular Roman RAMZES666 Kushnaryov and another player Vega Squadron Pavel 9pasha Khvastunov.

Now, when the composition "Virtus.pro DotA 2" for this season is known, we will examine each player separately and recall their successes and victories.

Captain, Captain, smile

Well, the first one to be told about is the captain of all captains, popular with the Russian-speaking community, Alexei Solo Berezin. His career began precisely with "Dota 2" in 2012. At one time, Alexei was dragged into conflict with the famous 322, after which his career came chaos.

Lesha for a long time tried to restore his honest name, was involved in streamer production and acted on replacements. Already in 2014, he returned to his native team, but after an unsuccessful game of RoX.KIS on TI4 the team broke up. For the next tournament Solo performs with Vega Squadron. This team for him, too, has become an important page in his career. Despite the success in the past year, this team did not achieve much. So Alexey got into Virtus.pro. Earlier he played on the middle line, now because of the captain's bandage sapportit.

Young blood

Virtus.pro G2A got a couple of young players. Vladimir Minenko, also No [o] ne, occupies the position of the middle. The 18-year-old boy played before in the mixes, but the most successful page in his career was participation in Vega Squadron.

But Roman Ramzes666 Kushnaryov is only 17 years old. His e-sports career began last year with the team ScaryFaceZ. His main refuge was the Team Spirit team, from which he was able to reach Major in Shanghai. After a disastrous tournament, he left the team and later joined the Team Empire. In "Virtus.Pro" plays at its crown position.

Support from God

Ilya Lil Iliyuk - the boy from the pub. In 2014, Goblak decided to assemble the team and, playing in MMD, found a promising young player who conquered the CIS-Dotu for just a year. His crown on Visage is known throughout the world. Then NVMI became Virtus.pro Polar, and Ilya conquered the world with his professionalism.

Many believe that his success is due to the fact that the guy managed not to catch the "star" and not turn into a capricious and ever-aching cybersport. With his game, he eclipsed the whole core and in the first year of his career he was able to earn 300 thousand dollars. Ilya already played with Virtus.pro on TI5, where he was able to reach the team with 5-6 places.

Through hardship to the stars

Pavel 9pasha Khvastunov began his career in 2013. Together with No [o] ne played in different mixes and at the end of 2014 became a member of the Vega Squadron collective. Pasha is a very strong kerry, which is difficult to handle on the line. He, along with teammates, went through a difficult path. In March of this year he had to leave the team. But since any player wants to perform at TI, he found himself a mix group F5.

Despite the fact that the team did not play in the world championship, it was still able to prove itself convincingly on the qualifications. In "Virtus" Pasha wins the role of hardliner.