Team Spirit

History

2024

Victory in the main tournament in the game Counter Strike

The esports team Team Spirit from Russia won the prestigious Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 tournament for the computer game Counter-Strike 2, receiving prize money in the amount of $0.5 million. About this steel is known in mid-December 2024.

According to TASS, in the final match, the Russian team beat the European team FaZe Clan with a score of 2:1. The total prize fund of the tournament amounted to $1.25 million, of which silver medalists received $170 thousand. The bronze medalists were the teams Mouz Esport and G2 Esport, who earned $80 thousand each.

The award of the most valuable player of the tournament (MVP) was received by 17-year-old Danil Kryshkovets (donk), becoming the youngest holder of this title in the history of major tournaments. During his career, the young talent has already received six MVP awards at major tournaments.

Team Spirit includes Russians Boris Vorobyov (magixx), team captain Leonid Vishnyakov (chopper), Danil Kryshkovets (donk), Dmitry Sokolov (sh1ro) and Ukrainian Miroslav Plahotya (zont1x). The head coach is Sergey Shavaev (hally).

After this victory, cyberathlete Dmitry Sokolov overcame the mark of $1 million in prize money for his career, taking 12th place among all players in the history of Russian esports. Team captain Leonid Vishnyakov approached the indicator of $700 thousand.

Team Spirit became the second team from Russia to win the main Counter-Strike tournament. Prior to that, the best result of the team was third place in the tournament in Belgian Antwerp. For the entire period of its existence, the organization earned $3.273 million in prize money.

After winning the Shanghai Major 2024, the team will take a break until January 2025, when a new tournament will take place from the BLAST organizer. In February 2025, Team Spirit will take part in the prestigious IEM Katowice tournament in Poland.^[1]

Championship at the Counter-Strike International Tournament in London

On June 16, 2024, the Team Spirit team, in which Russian e-sportsmen play, won the final of the Spring Final 2024 spring tournament of the Blast Premier League in the Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) discipline. The competition took place in London, where the Ukrainian team Natus Vincere also fought for the palm.

Team Spirit won 3-1. Leonid Vishnyakov's team (also known by the nickname chopper) won the cards Ancient (13:9), Dust2 (13:9) and Nuke (13:6), while the rivals showed an advantage at Mirage (4:13). The winners received a prize of $200 thousand.

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Blast Premier

In addition to Vishnyakov, the Team Spirit team is played by Boris Vorobyov (aka magixx), Danil Kryshkovets (donk), Dmitry Sokolov (sh1ro) and Ukrainian Miroslav Plahotya (zont1x). At the same time, Kryshkovets was recognized as the best player in the tournament. For him, this is the fourth award of its kind. He was previously twice voted Most Valuable Player at BetBoom Dacha. In addition, he received an award at the winning competition for Team Spirit IEM Katowice 2024.

As part of the tournament, the Dragons won all four meetings and deservedly became champions of the Blast spring season. Team Spirit will receive $200,000 in prize money and a ticket to the season finale in November [2024], the resource reports championat.com.

In general, the results of Blast Premier Spring Final 2024 for CS2 are as follows:

• First place: Team Spirit (Russia) - winning $200 thousand;
• Second place: Natus Vincere (Europe) - $85 thousand;
• Third-fourth places: Team Vitality (Europe) and Virtus.pro (Russia) - $40 thousand each;
• Fifth-sixth places: Astralis (Denmark) and FaZe Clan (Europe) - $20 thousand each;
• Seventh-eighth places: G2 Esports (Europe) and SAW (Portugal) - $10 thousand each.^[2]

2023: Second championship at the Dota 2 international computer game tournament

At the end of October 2023, the Russian esports team Team Spirit became the winner of the Dota 2 - The International 2023 World Championship. The tournament with a prize fund of $3.1 million was held in the American Seattle.

In the last grand final of the tournament, Team Spirit met with the European team Gaimin Gladiators and achieved a victory with a score of 3:0. The Russian team for winning the tournament will receive $1.4 million, their opponents in the final series - $370 thousand.

Team Spirit squad in Dota 2 discipline

The most players from Russia in the tournament were 19 out of 100. The closest figure is in Peru with 15/100. Of the 19 Russian players in the top 8 of the tournament, there were 12 people. In the final - four: three from Team Spirit and one from Western European Gaimin Gladiators. The Russian BB Team team shared 5th and 6th places, earning $102 thousand, Virtus Pro became 8th ($78 thousand), 9Pandas - 12th ($62 thousand).

Team Spirit includes Russians Yaroslav Naydenov (Miposhka), Magomed Khalilov (Collapse), Denis Sigitov (Larl) Ukrainians and Ilya Mulychuk (Yatoro) and Miroslav Kolpakov (Mira). The Russian team won The International for the second time, previously only the European OG team managed it. The total amount of earned prize money Team Spirit by the end of October 2023 exceeds $27 million, notes. TASS

Team Spirit has representatives in several gaming disciplines at once (in particular, Counter-Strike, Hearthstone, LoL), but it has the best results in Dota 2.

At the end of August 2023, the Federation of Computer Sports (FCS) of Russia reported that the International Federation of Computer Sports (CSF) allowed athletes from the Russian Federation to compete under the Russian flag. In addition, the congress rejected the proposal of the Ukrainian e-sports federation (UESF) to suspend the membership of the CSF of the Russian Federation in IESF.^[3]

2021: Winning the Dota 2 International Computer Game Tournament

On October 17, 2021, the Russian esports team Team Spirit won the Dota 2 international computer game tournament. We are talking about the competition The International, which athletes from the Russian Federation won for the first time. The championship was held in Romania.

At the final stage, Team Spirit was able to beat the Chinese team PSG.LGD with a score of 3:2. The Russian team won $18.2 million with a total tournament prize pool of more than $40 million. PSG.LGD received $5.2 million for second place. The top three was better closed by the international team Team Secret ($3.6 million).

Another Russian team Virtus.Pro left the tournament after losing to Team Spirit in the fourth round of the lower bracket. Virtus.Pro received $1.4 million in prize money.

Russian esports players Team Spirit won the Dota 2 World Championship and earned $18.2 million

Former head of Virtus.Pro Anton Cherepennikov in his Twitter blog said that he put 1.5 million rubles on the victory of Team Spirit in the final of the tournament. He won 44 million rubles thanks to the bet.

I believed from the first day, "he wrote.

At the same time, the start of the tournament for Team Spirit did not work out - in the group stage the team lost twice, after which it was in last place in the group. Still, she managed to recoup.

Team Spirit talked about where they will spend their prize money. Alexander Hertek promised his 11-year-old sister an apartment in the center of Moscow, and Ilya Mulychuk is going to buy a manor and a house for a cat. Magomed Khalilov noted that he has everything so far, he does not know what to spend this money on. Miroslav Kolpakov also plans to acquire housing, as well as purchase a car for dad.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko congratulated Russian e-sportsmen on their victory. The success of our team helped draw attention to digital technologies, Chernyshenko added. According to him, the total prize fund of the competition of $40 million confirms that interest in e-sports is growing among sponsors and sports fans.^[4]

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