BTS Pro Series Dota 2 welcomes RuHub as broadcast partner
BTS Pro Series Dota 2 welcomes RuHub as broadcast partner
RuHub studio becomes a broadcast partner of the BTS Pro Series Dota 2 online tournament. The Russian live stream of BTS Pro Series: Americas and BTS Pro Series: Southeast Asia will take place from 10 through 26 April on RuHub chanell twitch.tv/dota2ruhub channel.
Previously, Beyond the Summit studio announced the BTS Pro Series event in Dota 2. The series will be divided into two subdivisions: the Americas and Southeast Asia with the combined prize pool of $100 000. 8 teams from each region will battle for $50 000 and playoff slots, among them are Evil Geniuses, Cloud9, beastcoast, Fnatic, TNC Predator, Reality Rift, and others. The event’s group stage will be played in a round-robin best-of-3 format with two lowest-performing teams eliminated from the series. The best teams will advance to the grand final taking place on 26th April in a best-of-5 format.
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RuHub is a key esports media content producer and the largest Russian-based esports studio in the world. RuHub studio is a member of ESforce holding.
Kiryache32 joins Virtus.pro!
irill “Kiryache32” Grishin joins Virtus.pro Fortnite roster. He’ll compete alongside Jamal “Jamside” Saydaev and Dmitry “Siberiajkee” Voronin.
The 15-year-old prodigy has claimed more than $69 000 in winnings since Fall 2019. Kirill’s channel on Twitch streaming platform regularly gathers thousands of concurrent viewers.
Sergey Glamazda, Virtus.pro General Manager: “We’re excited to welcome Kiryache32 in the Bear family! Our club continues the campaign of exploring young talents of the esports scene. Despite his very young age, Kirill has already demonstrated impressive results in competitions as well as live streams. I’m sure that our current roster has what it takes to fulfill our goal to advance to the worldwide top-20 – and to take it even further!”.
Kirill “Kiryache32” Grishin: “I’m excited to join the ranks of Virtus.pro. I’ll try to show my very best. Please root for us! Tune in for my, Jamside’s and Siberiajkee’s streams!”.
Duos Fortnite Champion Series will take place on 17-19 April and will become Kiryache32’s first series under the Virtus.pro tag. The winner’s duo will take home $70 000.
Virtus.pro launched second Dota 2 roster — VP.Prodigy
Vitaly “Save-” Melnik, Egor “epileptick1d” Grigorenko, two current members of Virtus.pro with Major experience, were joined by Dmitry “DM” Dorokhin, Albert “Yume” Garaev as the latter signed long-term contracts with Virtus.pro. Rostislav “FN” Lozovoy will play as a stand-in.
Sergey Glamazda, Virtus.pro General Manager: “The thought of the second lineup came to us back in January, however, only after the Leipzig series had it become more than just an inkling. The idea is fairly simple: the second lineup allows young players to attain professional scene experience and knowledge without the enormous pressure of instant result expectation. The club has acquired players that might join the main roster later – or even replace it completely in the long run.
Choosing the right name was a bit of an adventure for us. From the proven classics like “Young” and “Junior” to some community-related memes, but we have chosen “VP.Prodigy” in the end. Of course, the famous band instantly comes to mind, but we were going for the word’s original meaning in this case: “a young talented person”. I think this name reflects the roster’s nature to the fullest. At the moment, the guys are facing the main goal of attaining the level of play that would allow them to compete to advance to a Major-status series through open or closed qualifiers in 2019/2020 season, or through the league system in 2020/2021 season.”
The new Virtus.pro roster is to debut in StayHome Challenge that will take place from 1st through 12th of April. The team will face B8 on April 2nd at 18:30, Moscow time.
RuHub becomes partner of #HomeSweetHome CS:GO tournament series
Ruhub, a broadcasting and analytics studio, becomes an official partner of #HomeSweetHome tournament series and will organise RU broadcasts. The organizers also announced a new start date in order to avoid overlapping matches with the current ESL Pro League. 16 teams will take part in the tournament. Virtus.pro and BIG were just announced as the fourth and fifth teams of the competition, joining GODSENT, North, and forZe.
RuHub will broadcast the tournament on its Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/csruhub. The precise broadcast timing will be announced later.
Anton Oleinik, RuHub CEO:
“We are happy to announce our partnership with the #HomeSweetHome tournament series. Now we face a difficult challenge: to hold as many interesting events as possible in an online format and try to fill in the gaps from the cancellation of events as much as possible. Take care of your health, take care of your family, and watch the games of your favorite teams from home — this will be the best support for the esports industry.”
Esports data provider GRID and event producer Relog Media have announced the launch of series of #HomeSweetHome tournaments. The event series has a $320,000 prize pool and will take place over eight-weeks, commencing with its opening tournament on April 7. Organizers hope to fill the gaps in the programming schedule caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic left by a series of event cancellations around the world.
#HomeSweetHome will consist of eight standalone tournaments with 16 teams, with a double-elimination group stage leading to the single-elimination playoffs. The winner of each tournament will earn $30,000, while the runner-up will pocket $10,000. Organizers added that there are plans to host one final tournament with the winning sides of all eight weekly competitions with a separate prize pool, with more information expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
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RuHub is a key esports media content producer and the largest Russian-based esports studio in the world. RuHub studio is a member of ESforce holding.
ESforce Holding is one of the biggest esports organizations in the world and the leader of the Russian esports. The holding encapsulates all esports business sectors: from organizing international tournaments and creating professional content to publishing and advertising.
ESforce holding’s actives include:
- Virtus.pro, the most renowned and popular esports club of Russia;
- RuHub Studio, leading Russian-speaking esports broadcasting studio;
- Cybersport.ru, main esports website of CIS;
- EPICENTER, the largest esports tournament series in CIS;
- Yota Arena, esports-entertainment complex.
ESforce’s resources cover more than 90% of Russia’s and CIS’ esports viewers as well as a significant portion of the international audience. A creative agency – a member of the holding – ensures the synergy of the holding’s actives with the clients and partners in mind.
ESforce Holding was founded in 2015. In 2018, the holding became a member of a leading Internet and IT-company of Russia – Mail.Ru Group.
HyperX becomes the official partner of Virtus.pro
HyperX becomes the official partner of Virtus.pro
A manufacturer of memory storage devices and computer peripherals HyperX becomes the official partner of Virtus.pro. The beginning of this partnership will be followed by a campaign of special events, gifts giveaways for the fans, and reviews of brand-new gaming gadgets featuring esport’s club players.
Oleg Bulavko, HyperX CIS Head of Esport:
“HyperX has always supported the best esports talents and clubs. The healthy development of international esports is crucial for us. Virtus.pro is one of the few esports clubs known and respected from Vladivostok to New York. The Bears’ victories inspire hundreds of thousands all over the world.
March 2020 marks the beginning of our partnership. We wish the players, the management and the fans to conquer new heights in the upcoming season, including, of course, all the World Championships. Welcome to #HyperXFamily!”.
Sergey Glamazda, Virtus.pro General Manager:
“HyperX is one of the indisputable leaders on the market of gaming accessories appraised by esports athletes all over the world. We’re excited to see our plans together become reality. Our fans – expect tons of interesting events and new content!”.
The next big tournaments for Virtus.pro in March will be Apex Legends Major 1 in Texas and Dota 2 ESL One Los Angeles Major in California
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HyperX is a subsidiary of Kingston Technology, a leader on the market of memory storage devices.
In 2002, HyperX launched its first product line of high-performance memory modules. Now, the brand is synonymous with high-quality gaming accessories from memory devices, solid-state and flash drives to gaming keyboards, headsets, gaming mice and mouse pads.
The high-quality materials used in precision manufacturing set HyperX apart from its competitors. Great performance, modern design, and reliability make HyperX devices the first choice of esports athletes, overclockers and technical experts whose professional livelihood is linked to the devices they use.
ESforce Holding is one of the biggest esports organizations in the world and the leader of the Russian esports. The holding encapsulates all esports business sectors: from organizing international tournaments and creating professional content to publishing and advertising.
ESforce holding’s actives include:
The most decorated and popular esports club of Russia – Virtus.pro;
The leading Russian-speaking esports streaming studio – RuHub;
Main esports portal of CIS – Cybersport.ru;
The largest esports tournament series in CIS – EPICENTER;
Esports-entertainment venue – Yota Arena.
ESforce’s resources cover more than 90% of Russia’s and CIS’ esports viewers as well as a significant portion of the international audience. A creative agency – a member of the holding – ensures the synergy of the holding’s actives with the clients and partners in mind.
ESforce Holding was founded in 2015. In 2018, the holding became a member of a leading Internet and IT-company of Russia – Mail.Ru Group.
Citilink and Intel become partners of EPICENTER CS:GO esports tournament
Citilink and Intel become partners of EPICENTER CS:GO esports tournament
Electronics discounter Citilink and Intel have become partners of an international esports tournament EPICENTER in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hosted in Moscow. The tournament’s grand final will take place in Crocus Expo second exhibition hall through 21 — 22 December. The tournament’s prize pool is $500 000.
8 teams from Europe, CIS, and China will battle in the GSL bo3 format group stage: Virtus.pro (Russia), Natus Vincere (Ukraine), Evil Geniuses (USA), Team Vitality (France), mousesports (Germany), Heroic (Denmark), EHOME (China), forZe (Russia).
Aleksey Tsidilin, Head of Citilink esports academy project:
«Counter-Strike is one of the iconic esports disciplines. With its monthly audience of around half a million unique players, the FPS has even started to overtake Dota 2 in the peak player activity. We closely monitor the development of esports in the country. Therefore, we strive to support any projects related to this actively growing community as well as supplying esports athletes with all the required cutting-edge hardware. We hope to see the event bring its participants and viewers only the positive emotions, and, of course, victory to the strongest».
Sergey Barkhudaryan, ESforce Holding Commercial Director:
«Since esports is one of the drivers of innovative solutions in computer hardware and electronics, we are happy to welcome Citilink and Intel as the partners of EPICENTER series. We are sure this partnership will be fruitful and beneficial for all of us».
Intel Russia press office representative:
«Nowadays esports broadcasts attract more than 2 billion viewers worldwide – and this number keeps only growing. Intel has been backing esports for more than 15 years by supporting various gaming leagues and tournaments together with partners. Its innovations broaden gaming horizons: from high-performance Intel® Core™ CPUs and Intel® Optane™ SSDs to cloud technologies, 5G networks, AI and much more».
EPICENTER CS:GO 2019 Tickets and passes are available for purchase on the event’s official page, starting from 900 Rub. Three pass tiers are available: Global Elite, Global Nova, and Legendary Eagle. Users of VK Pay app receive a 10% discount.