The past month turned out to be generous for large championships – Dreamhack Winter was held in Sweden, the strongest gamers played Starcraft 2, League of Legends and Shootmania on IPL5, and the World Cyber Games 2012 medals were played out in China.
Life beat with a key on the open spaces of the network, where the vouchers on the Thor Open, Starladder Starsies Season IV and other championships were played out. We tracked and recorded all the most interesting things that November presented us, and we hasten to share with you.
Month team – CS: Go / World of Tanks
Ninjas in Pyjamas and Red: Rush
In this nomination, we will have two winners – one, relatively speaking, “ours”, the other – “world”. First we talk about the Swedes NIP – champions Dreamhack Winter 2012 And Mind Sports Festival , and then we will mention the Russian tank squad Red: Rush – Golden medalists of recent WCG 2012.
This year, many complained that championships on Counter-Srike 1.6 have become too predictable – in any layout in the final they will converge Fnatic And Natusvincere. Tired of the old woman CS 1.6 Spectators were expected from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive revival of a professional competitive scene and rigid competition.
► Do you want to make the strongest command in CS: GO? The recipe is simple – take three strong players from CS 1.6 and two from CS: Source!
Fans of the new game from Valve They said, they say, look how many strong teams have passed to CS: GO from CS: Source, CS 1.6 and even from Call of Duty 4, Now everything will be much more interesting! But a miracle, universal chagrin, did not happen – all four finals of the last few months ended in confrontation Verygames Both NIP and all four won NIP.
Patrick Lindberg ( F0rest ) and the company defeated the French "carriers" in Spanish Dreamhack Valencia , French ESWC 2012 , Swedish Dreamhack Winter and Czech AMD Sapphire Within the framework Mind Sports Festival. While we are doing our story about these victories, titled Scandinavians get another gold in their piggy bank at the Scandinavian championship Thor Open.
► Robin Johansson (Fifflaren) – the main sniper of the team and the weakest link NIP, according to most viewers.
Now the whole community is in the hands of NIP and their creator Emil Kristensen ( Heaton ), and after all, a few months ago Get_Right ’A and F0rest ’But evaluated not so rosy. Their SK Gaming failed one tournament after another, and fans SK They were tirelessly complained that the star duet plays more in CS: GO , rather than trained in CS 1.6.
The hobby of a new and still very controversial game of many then caused a rejection – the Swedes were poured out that, they say, they demanded their souls, realizing that they would return to the top in CS 1.6 will be incredibly difficult. But NIP They did not listen very well to the words of the spiteful people and continued to train hard.
► Frag Movie Nip from the Czech Championship Mind Sports Festival
While other top commands played into the old CS 1.6 and only looked closely at CS: GO , “Ninja in Pajamas” produced titles one by one. The first places in Spain, France, Sweden and the Czech Republic brought the Vikings a total of more than fifty thousand dollars, and the end championships in the new game are not yet visible.
When it became clear that it would have to be played in CS: go or disband the compositions, the Poles launched the game from ESC Gaming , And Fnatic , And even guys from Na’vi. But the moment was already missed, and now none of them can compete with the Swedes on equal terms. The question of how many years, months or weeks will it take from other teams to overtake and get ahead of NIP ..
► The same “golden” final on World of Tanks as part of World Cyber Games 2012
Now – about another of our winners. The strongest domestic team in World of Tanks , Jouring in the final of the Chinese Waveknight , I got the first and only gold for Russia for Russia World Cyber Games 2012. You can read about their success and other events of the championship Here, And we just want to congratulate the guys again. It is pleasant that the whole three winners in the World of Tanks discipline consisted of teams representing countries with a rich “tank” history, and is doubly more pleasant that we were the first!
Video of the month – Dota 2
The International 2012
- Atmospheric Documentary video About the best championship in 2012
- Authors video – Workers Company Valve
- Twenty two minutes interview and other internal events
- A chance to see Valve office , A crowded cinema and, of course, Geiba Newella
- The film scored 407 More excess thousands of views in less than a month
► Perhaps the best documentary for the entire existence of computer sports
The scandal of the month
Mym and Worldedit Starladder Starseries
In this unusual nomination, we also have two winners – Danish Dota 2-team Meet Your Makers and the situation around George Yashkin ( Worldedit ), player Dat Team , Russian team in CS: GO. Let's start with the first conflict – more loud and much more interesting.
How you already know everything (and who does not know, can read our material), the Meet Your Makers came to Kyiv for LAN finals last month Starladder Starsers. They did not play there, but the point is not at all the results and existing game problems.
► Starladder Starsies Lan Finals always collect full halls.
On a successful arrival home management Mym suddenly took and posted an angry report on the trip on the official page of his team. Managers of a very harsh form accused Starladder organizers of several things at once.
The first in the list of accusations was the alleged promise of the Ukrainian commentator and representative of the League Vitaly Voloha ( v1lat ) Provide each visiting team (we are talking about Western European guests) of a thousand dollars to cover the costs of flight and meals. MYM did not receive any money.
Then there were decent apartments promised by the organizers, while the Danes had to put up with bare wiring and other horrors of the Ukrainian capital. Northerners did not like food on the first day – according to them, the portal workers Joindota And players Na’vi They ate for free, but other participants had to fork out.
► Bar menu in the club Kyiv Evorta Arena. Agree, the prices can not be called high (1 hryvnia – approximately 4 rubles).
And finally, they were outraged to the core that the league employee ESL and former team manager Pulse (Skane Elit) The club offered only pork dishes, and he, being a Muslim, does not eat her.
The accusations instantly blew up all European Dota 2 -community, and full -flowing rivers of censure and curses poured on the league representatives. It is not known how all this would end in the end if Starladder Na’vi representatives did not stand and did not make a refutation himself v1lat.
► VITIALIA Volochey (V1lat) while working for the well -known Russian site Prodota.ru.
Na’vi They stated that they never lived in Kyiv in any five -star hotels, but rent a large apartment for themselves, where they train. In addition, Ukrainians ridiculed the complaint Mym , that they had to spend hundreds of euros to get to the club daily. "You can pay for any service as much as you like, but it is far from the fact that it really costs so much …"
Then came the turn v1lat. Vitaly published personal on his website answer, where he dotted all https://orion-spins-gb-casino.co.uk/ points over I in the conflict. So, the commentator found guilty only on the first point of the prosecution and promised to pay money from his own pocket until the end of November.
When it seemed that the incident was already exhausted, Captain Na’vi Clement Ivanov entered ( PUPPEY ). In a regular Skype show from Joindota, the Estonian first calmly explained to everyone the current situation, and then Turned to mym in a very harsh form, wishing them "good luck in the future".
► Captain Dota 2-part Na’vi really did not like Mym statement, and he did not get into his pocket for the word.
As a result, even more complete rivers of insults fell on the initiator of the conflict. A few days later the leadership Mym It apologized to everyone and removed the news from the site. True … spoons, as they say, were found, but the sediment remained.
An interesting incident happened and in the league on CS: GO – at the very end of November there were disputes about George Yashkin ( Worldedit ). Little -known lovers CS 1.6 The representative of the Russian team Dat Team showed simply a phenomenal game in matches with Mousesports , Alternate And Virtus.Pro.
► Record of the game Dat Team and Virtus.Pro as part of the Starladder Starseres league
AWP well -aimed shots and a great reading of the game was to the liking of the audience, but not the players of the enemy teams. The Germans suspected George in cheating and sent an appropriate request to the administration Starladder. The oil was added to the fire and the fact that Dat Team At about the same time, it announced the intention to visit the championship in Prague, but … without Worldedit’a, who had problems with the passport.
The judges did not find direct evidence of fraud, but obliged George to record the remaining matches with a program Fraps. Frankly, over many years of observation of computer sports, we see a similar solution for the first time.
The final of the month – Warsraft 3
Ted vs Fly100 on WCG 2012
- Prestigious championship by WarsRAFT 3 at the end of 2012? Rare!
- Three tense And very colorful match For the gold of the World Cup
- The players Not a minute of peace – Endless battles
- Legendary Chinese Sky Stopped Just a step Until its next final
- Sensitive victory player for undead (undead), despite The dominance of orcs
► Two Chinese in the WCG 2012 final – local spectators were satisfied
Respect of the month – FIFA 2012
Kai Volin (Deto)
The winner in this nomination was the twenty -four -year -old champion World Cyber Games 2012 , German Kai Volin ( Deto ), now playing for the German team Acer. You ask why we chose it? Yes, because he is the only one who managed to win the FIFA tournament twice in a row as part of the World Cyber Games from Samsung [http: // www.Samsung.com/ua_ru/].
► Record of the FIFA 2012 finals (watch from 1:04:00)
Although today the most of the championship is the annual Fifainteraactive World Cup , WCG also does not give up positions. This year, the composition of the participants of the Kunshansky Grand Final was very solid-almost all the strongest arrived, but Kai Volin won again ( Deto ).
And again in the final the Pole was beaten – if last year it was Hom3r , then now the decisive match has reached Bartas. Those who have long and carefully monitor football know how important matches are with the participation of Poland and Germany. And if last year in South Korean Pusana Kai got gold easily and confidently (1: 4, 0: 3), then in Kunshan The fate of the championship was determined in the decisive third match.
After the main time, a draw 1: 1 was recorded, and everything was decided by an additional thirty minutes. In the 118th minute in one of his last attacks, Bartas was very close to victory, but the bar came to the aid of the German, and the players went to the penalty.
► FIFA versions every year change – invariably only the name of the champion.
The Pole managed to reflect one of Kai’s first blows and remained in one “save” until the end of the game to the championship title, but the cold -blooded German scored goals all the time. Patience brought fruit – Bartas pierced the goalkeeper, and the first five mutual blows ended in equilibrium. The players began to beat one at a time, and Deto "Dragged" the second blow to the Pole, while performing his. The German delegation simply exploded with joy, and the Pole looked shocked. However, luck smiles the strongest, is it not true?
The event of the month
Dreamhack Winter 2012
- The largest Swedish Computer festival , which has no analogues
- More Twenty thousand visitors And about Fifteen thousand computers online
- More Ten high -quality championships According to the very Popular In the world Games
- Performance famous Electronic musiciansheadhunterz
- Hundreds of thousands of spectators on official broadcasts and television channels
► See the video and find out why gamers from all over the world come to Yyoncheping twice a year
"Internship of the month"-Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
The first official games Na’VI
In mid -November, the news struck that the last stronghold had fallen Counter-Strike 1.6 , – The Ukrainian team Natus Vincere I decided to try my hand at CS: GO. This decision was given to the five, because most of the guys, especially Arseny Trinozhenko ( CEH9 ), over the past few months have expressed against this game.
It seems to us that if the famous players had just begun a career today, they would have passed by CS: Go, but now the situation is different. Data on the conduct of large championships for CS 1.6 Next year, it was not received, which means that you do not want, but you have to play that the market dictates.
► Apparently, this way the guys reacted when they first saw CS: GO.
However, throwing the next stone into the garden of the new brainchild Valve, We are forced to admit that the last few updates have significantly improved the gaming process. In one of the recent broadcasts, Yegor Markelov ( Markeloff ) stated that the current CS: GO He already likes and even an incentive to comprehend the new appeared.
The official announcement states that the team’s leadership does not intend to replace anyone in its CS-part and gives the players sixty days of the trial period. During this time, the team undertakes to train responsibly and decide if it makes sense to play in CS: GO Or it is better to look for yourself in something else.
► to overtake in CS: Go Swedes from NIP, Ukrainians will have to train for almost days.
To better evaluate the quality of its game and identify the most egregious mistakes, the team decided to register for Starladder Starsers. After watching the first official matches Na’vi , Fans were sad – there is no miracle, CS: GO Still very different from CS 1.6.
After fifteen tours played, the Ukrainians were in an unsatisfactory eleventh place, having eight defeats and seven victories in the asset. The situation is even more deplorable, given that the lion's share of victories is the technical defeats of the teams, which for some reason left for some reason left Starladder Starsers.
► The first colorful moments in the new game of Ukrainian champions from CS 1.6
But we continue to believe in the guys and their bright future in CS: GO. According to preliminary information, Na’vi By the end of the year, they will not go to any European championships and focus on online training. The final decision, apparently, will be made at the end of the New Year holidays.
The debut of the month
Shootmania Storm on IPL5
- Eight best world teams In the battle for One hundred thousand dollars
- Thirty thousand for First place – Ten to brother!
- The venue of the championship is an elite hotel Cosmopolitan V Las Vegas
- Great organization tournament, however, like all competitions from American League IPL
- Bright confrontation American and European legends Quake And Counter-STRIKE
► atmospheric video from the Shootmania Storm championship from the American Game League IGN Pro League
Player of the month – Starcraft 2
Lee Sak (Parting)
This month, the title is received by eighteen -year -old Lee Sak ( Parting ) from South Korea. Today, this unconditionally talented player for the race of Protossov plays for the Korean team Startale.
Despite the young age, Parting has been playing at a very high level for several years and is considered almost the main ascending star on the South Korean SC 2-scene. The first success came to him in May 2010, when Lee Sak stumbled just a step before he entered the finals GSL Season 2: Code S. He lost the legendary MVP , but he did not desperate and continued to train hard. As you can see, not in vain.
► Silence and darkness are mandatory conditions for a good concentration. However, now you need to be able to play in any conditions.
The peak of its forms fell into tournaments associated with World Championship Series from Blizzard. Then he climbed a step higher with each new championship. If on Korean qualifying Parting was the third, then already at the general Asian finals, he offended in the final.
But by no means this made him our player of the month, and brilliant victories on world finals WCS and WCG Grand Finale 2012. All this passed in the Middle Kingdom and compactly fit in a few weeks. It makes no sense to describe both championships in detail, recently we have already written about them. Let's just say that the championship on WCS World Championship And WCG 2012 brought Korean $ 125,000.
► What else is needed for just gaming happiness, if not the title of world champion, a weighty cup for memory and one hundred thousand dollars in addition?
Parting – The player is very aggressive and always dictates his conditions to the opponent. A distinctive feature of his style is a game against grains through two bases and a subsequent attack of several immortal. This is the corporate course of the Korean, thanks to which he got a lot of victories. However, Parting He has perfectly owns other tactics, what we could see about the past championships.
"Student" the month
Moscow e -sports league
► Our students go to such events with pleasure.
- 200 students from 28 universities In the battle for First places In team and individual tests
- Tournaments by World of Tanks , Quake Live , FIFA 13 , Starcraft 2 And Point Blank
- Students RSUFK , HSE , MGU And RANEPA Among the best gamers MKL
- Competent organization And high -quality lighting
- Judges Computer Sports Federation Russia and streams from players Virtus.Pro
Girl of the month
Chelsea Alec Finelman (Delicate)
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- Currently – Manager team Ubinited by CS: go
- Her wards – Champions ESWC 2012 and the most titled female team in the world
- Participant one of the seasons of American television show WCG Ultimate Gamer
- Former Professional player V Counter-Strike 1.6 (PMS team)
- Well, her smile is just a miracle!
► Funny interview with Chelsea Alec Finelman, however, in English