The last winter month did not pamper us with large tournaments, but this does not mean that the lull reigned in computer sports – on the contrary, we witnessed a whole cycle of events. Some e -sports teams said goodbye to their compositions, and the latter agreed on cooperation. Most of all the audience attention was collected Dota 2 And Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The first traditionally distinguished itself by the abundance of different online championships, and the second was an important Lan tournament in Vienna.
Well, now – in detail.
Tournament of the month – CS: GO
Madcatz Vienna Invitational
- The championship collected Sixteen strongest European groups on CS: GO
- First Group The stage gave a lot Sensations And unexpected results
- First Lan- championship In the new game for the titled Ukrainian team Na’vi
- IN quarterfinals On the map de_mirage na’vi and Verygames played Six overtime
- Danes ANEXIS suddenly For everyone We went to the final , leaving many favorites behind
► Beautiful cutting of the best game moments of the Austrian championship
Epic of the month – dota 2
Natus Vincere in the transfer market
Say that Dota 2- compound Natus Vincere Recently I spoke unsuccessfully – it is not to say anything. Champions The International And silver medalists The International 2 Last year, only Kyiv LAN finals won Starladder Starsers.
► The former composition of Na’VI in the Dota 2 discipline 2 years ago played unchanged.
The first alarming notes in Dota 2-part Na’vi They sounded in the summer of 2012, when the five gathered in Kyiv to prepare for the tournament in Seattle and with a bang this preparation failed. The team could not develop its champion tactics, and quarrels often flared up between the players.
Remember the first matches of the Ukrainian team on The International 2 , When the great Na’vi seemed a pale shadow of themselves. After the first starting defeats, many said that the champions would not overcome the group stage and will go to their homeland with shame.
► Remember the semifinal match of the Ukrainian team against the Chinese LGD
To the joy of all our fans, this did not happen, and the next days the "born to win" played much more confident. The defeats in the debut were driven Na’vi in a corner, and when they had nowhere to retreat, the team suddenly sharply demonstrated a real championship game. It’s a pity that it was not possible to take another million in the end.
It would seem after The International 2 Silver winners will return to their homeland completely different, but a miracle did not happen. In Seattle, a sonorous and, most importantly, profile coin of the company Valve Forced Na’vi for a while to forget about the former straightforces, but when the tournament ended, everything returned to its circles. Small (compared to The International 2) prize European tournaments and the lack of serious competition contributed to the fact that the team almost stopped training.
► Recently, the composition of Fnatic has seriously pulled up, and now it is already hard to believe that these guys once performed at Heroes of Newerth.
But those who unsettled in Seattle or did not get there at all, quickly realized – to be on The International 3 and show a decent result there, they will have to work hard. So on the European Dota 2-scene, new promising teams appeared Team Empire , Virtus.Pro , No tidehunter And Fnatic.
While Na’vi players kneaded with friends on publics, these guys sat in the game for days in the game, not forgetting to adapt to the constant updates of Dota 2. The once huge gap in the level with Na’vi inexorably contracted every day.
[[Bullet]] ex-player Darer and Team Empire Gleb Lipatnikov (Funn1k) dreamed all his life in Na’VI and, when the proposal received, did not hesitate for a long time.
Having analyzed the latest game changes, catching up teams invented several new effective strategies and … began to defeat the past offenders from Na’Vi. For some reason, they decided to simply copy other people's ideas, and it was no better. The team that always dictated to the opponents its game began to imitate those whom she did not count before and for serious rivals.
In February, Na’vi often suffered a crushing defeat on the network. Several times the "born to win" were beaten by virtus.Pro, but the victory of little -known Belarusians was the strongest blow to Na’vi fans Power Ranges. The famous team was extremely unsuccessful in the fifth season Starladder Starsers , And it was urgent to do something, because the champions of all previous seasons risked flying past Lan finals.
The leadership, having weighed all the pros and cons, dared to replace. First, the main support player left the pack Sergey Revin ( Ars-Art ), and after him the Time-out in his playing career was taken by the second Russian Dmitry Kupriyanov ( Lightofheaven ). An ex-player joined Na’vi instead of them Team Empire Ukrainian Gleb Lipatnikov (Funn1k) And a former player mousesports – German Kuro Salehi Tahasomi (Kuroky).
The first came as a free agent, and the second contract reportedly was bought for a significant amount. Both are very strong and well known to those who regularly follow the professional Dota 2-scenes. In addition, despite the rich experience of performances, they are very young, which means they can devote several more years of their life to the game.
► excellent video on the topic of all consisted transitions – from the guys from Team Empire
Now that the composition is staffed, Na’vi will try to catch up and seriously prepare for the upcoming The International 3. There are rumors that soon the team will be sent to China, where another promising five has been training for several months – from LGD.International.
The prospects of Na’vi, despite the angry statements of fans, are quite rosy, but the "empire" and here mousesports Everything is not so smooth. The teams lost their strongest players, to find which a decent replacement will be oh how difficult. And if managers Team Empire They can still look aside Vigoss , PGG Or the same Ars-Art , what to do to the Germans is difficult to assume.
Announcement of the month – World of Tanks
Wargaming.Net League
- General Prize fund Wargaming League – 2,500,000 $
- All battles will be divided into Four seasons , The start of the first – In early March 2013
- All the strongest participate World of World of Tanks
- Optimal Tournament format – 7/42
- Prize fund on the RU-plaster- 400,000 $
► Completely the creators of the video are large World of Tanks
Closing the month
Click-Net ceased to exist
In early February, the largest Moscow computer club closed Click-Net , well known to all Russian e -sportsmen. Work on the dismantling of equipment began on January 31 and continued in the first week of February.
► really in Mitino there will be no more fights in the "non-real" time?
Frankly, it is difficult for us to objectively evaluate this event, because we have never been to it. On the one hand, the closure of the largest club in the capital is a big blow to computer sports, and on the other – the era of dark basement clubs has long passed, and today the last remaining “dinosaurs” live their age.
Today nobody needs traditional computer clubs. The growth of the prosperity of Russians and technological progress greatly accelerated the extinction of such institutions. Almost everyone has a home -wide Internet, and professional players train mainly at home, and not in clubs, as before.
Over the past few years, computer sports have completely switched to online, and large Lan championists to the CIS can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Previously in Click-Net A lot of various competitions passed, from Asus Cup and to the tournaments from the "crossbow", but recently there was nothing to catch there.
► Slender ranks of computers at the Moscow Click-Net Moscow Club.
With the discovery " Kyiv Tsartes of the Arena »Lan finals of all major tournaments moved to Ukraine, and Moscow lost the status of the main e-sports center of the CIS. The Russian capital has long been in need of a high -tech computer center with a large stage and hundreds of PC, many have already talked about its creation, but the matter, as usual, did not go further than the conversation. And it is unlikely that in the coming years it will reach, given the capital prices of land.
Rumors go that Click-Net soon can be revived, only in another room. It would be wonderful – provided that the owners will completely change the very concept of a computer club. If everything remains as before, he can’t live a long time.
Video of the month-Counter-Strike 1.6
United – The Best of 1.6
- Best points strongest European players in CS1.6
- No unnecessary special effects – 17.5 minutes hot action
- Accent Made On the Scandinavian Players, especially on Fury And Karrigan
- I like it to everyone who is at least a little Played In the legendary Counter-Strike 1.6
- Video from Muvimakers specialized YouTube -channel TVCstrike
► You think you can play the Contra? Well then, see this video
Return of the month – Starcraft 2
Quantic Gaming again in the case!
At the beginning of last December, a sad news came from the United States-because of the financial troubles, the team broke up Quantic. Recall that the Quantic, founded in 2010 in the States of Quantic, very quickly became one of the most influential e -sports teams.
► Triump of one of the teams at the American championship MLG.
For the first time, Quantic announced herself in 2011, announcing SC2-composition and inviting strong Swedish players to it Kim Hammar ( Sase ) And Johana Lukkezi ( Naniwa ). A month before the arrival of the last “quantics” was signed with the leading Korean team Incredible Miracle cooperation agreement according to which players Quantic could live freely and train in South Korea at the base IM. Soon the agreement was torn, and sent to Korea Destiny As a result, he was on the basis of another local team – Startale.
► Finding Kim Hammar (Sase) in the crowd-it was given out by a bright red T-shirt of Quantic.
2012 was remembered by the unprecedented activity of the organization in the transfer market. A team that has already had compositions on Starcraft 2 , League of Legends And Call of Duty 4, changed players like gloves. This continued until the end of autumn, when the Americans had the first serious financial difficulties.
► How do you like a cake? We look very much like, sorry, do not bite.
On the sponsors of the organization of the Katcom, the economic crisis was held, and they instantly forgot about the support of computer sports. The team managers, having waited a few days, realized that there was nowhere to wait for help, and closed the project. Who knows if we would see Quantic again in action or not, if not for help from the teams It’s gosu And 4not. Those revived Quantic by draining two of their teams into one large organization, which automatically joined all current compositions of the aforementioned teams.
And here is the rebel from the ashes Quantic again takes his first steps in the e -sports field. Now they look uncertain, but in the future, perhaps, “quantics” will not only regain their former power, but will also become several times stronger.
Acquaintance of the month – Shadow Company
The start of the first championships
- MMOFPS from Doobic Game Studios, It is localized in Russia "Innova"
- By gameplay very Similar to A popular online shooter Point Blank
- Built in popular today F2P models With the ability to buy Game bonuses
- On it already Conducted The first Test tournaments Within the framework fifth season Starladder.TV
- Match show on the Lan Final Starladder Starsers with a prize pool in $ 3000
► Shadow Company gameplay showing all the charms of the game. Well, how do you, play?
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Month Update-Counter-Strike 1.6
Unexpected patches
Developers Valve impose high hopes for the operating system Linux – It is reported that their future prefix will work Steambox. In January, the source was adopted on a promising Valve Half-Life , And then nationwide Counter-STRIKE.
► The difference between high and low resolution models, frankly, almost no. Most players probably won't even notice her.
The creators of the game, transferring it to Linux And MacOS , They approached the issue very seriously and, after many years of inactivity, unexpectedly began to correct game mistakes. “To do is so thoroughly,” thought in the company and, of course, took up the Windows version of the legendary game.
Having loaded the first automatic updates on their accounts, the players have borrowed – CS 1.6 worked crookedly, the mouse's sensitivity has changed significantly, it was impossible to remove acceleration. Some of the game completely stopped starting.
[Bullet]] New buttons appeared in the video settings tab: “Launch in window mode” and “Turn on high -resolution models”.
However, there were two or three grateful seven and eight. The latter claimed that everything worked much better with them than before, and the rest simply, they say, hands crooked. Be that as it may, players from Valve Continued to patch an old woman CS 1.6 , And after a week, all egregious mistakes were eliminated.
In the dry residue, we received a nimble version with HD textures and without support D3D , as well as with several new console teams and gaming settings. True, not everyone figured out the last changes, and there was no talk about the fact that Valve intentionally "killed" CS 1.6 , so that everyone gradually switches to a new Global Offensive. Believe in this with great difficulty.
Girl of the month – Team Fortress 2
Rachel Quiriko (Seltzer)
- One of the most famous e -sports Journalists On the planet
- Interested in the main ones events computer sports with 2005 years
- At one time She played professionally In Team Fortress 2, I visited many Championships
- Not missing not a single large championship in SC 2, with pleasure Looks Games
- In 2010 Participated In a popular television project WCG Ultimate Gamer
► Curious interview with Rachel. Look, if you understand English no worse than Mutko
