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Shanghai Major
The Shanghai Major was a '' Dota 2'' tournament that took place in Shanghai from March 2–6, 2016, and was the second Major of the 2015-2016 professional '' Dota 2'' season. 16 teams competed in the tournament; eight were given direct invitations and the other eight qualified through various qualifying tournament around the world. The Major was won by Team Secret, who defeated Team Liquid in a best of five series 3–1. The tournament took place at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. Participating teams ;Direct invitation * Evil Geniuses * OG * Team Secret * Alliance * Virtus.Pro * EHOME * CDEC Gaming * ViCi Gaming ;Regional qualifiers * LGD Gaming (China) * Newbee (China) * Team Archon (Americas) * compLexity Gaming (Americas) * Team Liquid (Europe) * Team Spirit (Europe) * MVP Phoenix (Southeast Asia) * Fnatic (Southeast Asia) Results ''(Note: Prizes are in USD)'' Controversy The Shanghai Major was plagued from the start with technical difficulties and both the production company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dota 2
''Dota 2'' is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve. The game is a sequel to '' Defense of the Ancients'' (''DotA''), a community-created mod for Blizzard Entertainment's '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.'' ''Dota 2'' is played in matches between two teams of five players, with each team occupying and defending their own separate base on the map. Each of the ten players independently controls a powerful character known as a "hero" that all have unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match players collect experience points and items for their heroes to successfully defeat the opposing team's heroes in player versus player combat. A team wins by being the first to destroy the other team's "Ancient", a large structure located within their base. Development of ''Dota 2'' began in 2009 when IceFrog, lead designer of ''Defense of the Ancients'', was hired by Valve to create a modernized remake for them in the Source game engine. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtus
''Virtus'' () was a specific virtue in Ancient Rome. It carries connotations of valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth, perceived as masculine strengths (from Latin ''vir'', "man"). It was thus a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors, and was personified as a deity— Virtus. Origins The origins of the word ''virtus'' can be traced back to the Latin word ''vir'', "man". The common list of attributes associated with ''virtus'' are typically perceived masculine strengths, which may indicate its derivation from ''vir''. From the early to the later days of the Roman Empire, there appears to have been a development in how the concept was understood. Originally ''virtus'' was used to describe specifically martial courage, but it eventually grew to be used to describe a range of Roman virtues. It was often divided into different qualities including ''prudentia'' (prudence), ''iustitia'' (justice), ''temperantia'' (temperance, self-control), and ''forti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reddit
Reddit (; stylized in all lowercase as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not Reddit employees. As of March 2022, Reddit ranks as the 9th- most-visited website in the world and 6th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Semrush. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabe Newell
Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), nicknamed Gaben, is an American businessman and the president of the video game company Valve. Newell was born in Colorado and grew up in Davis, California. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system. He and another employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, and funded development of their first game, ''Half-Life'' (1998). Harrington left in 2000, leaving Newell as the sole owner. As of 2021, he owned at least one quarter of Valve. Newell led development of Valve's digital distribution service Steam, which launched in 2003 and controlled most of the market for downloaded PC games by 2011. He is one of the wealthiest people in the United States; in December 2021, ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth at US$3.9 billion. Early life and education Newell was born on November 3, 1962, in Colorado, and at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vici Gaming
Vici Gaming (VG) is a Chinese professional esports organization based in Shanghai. It has teams competing in ''Dota 2'', ''League of Legends'', ''StarCraft II'', ''WarCraft III'', ''FIFA'', ''Hearthstone'' and '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''. Vici Gaming's ''Dota 2'' team has been a top contender in numerous tournaments, most notably as runners-up of The International 2014. ''Dota 2'' History 2012 Vici Gaming was founded on 21 September 2012 with the help of "Fengdidi", who previously played in PanDarea Gaming under the name PanPan, handpicking skilled players that were highly ranked on the Chinese DotA ladder at the time. The players had no previous professional experience at the time with the exception of sydm who had played under the banner of TyLoo. Their mid lane player Cty had shown promise by winning a 1v1 tournament organized by 2009, in which he beat famous players like Ferrari_430, Sylar, Hao, and other top Chinese players shortly before getting recruit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Spirit (esports)
Team Spirit is a Russian esports organization based in Moscow. Founded in 2015, the organization currently has teams competing in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' Dota 2'', ''League of Legends'' and '' Hearthstone''. Their ''Dota 2'' squad won The International 2021 and received the largest single prize money payout in esports history at $18 million. On 24 March 2022 Spirit announced the opening of an additional office in Belgrade. Divisions ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' On 9 June 2016, the organization signed the members of Team Phenomenon. On 3 March 2019, Artem "iDISBALANCE" Yegorov and Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov joined the team. On 9 September 2019, Pavel "COLDYY1" Veklenko and Dmitriy "SotF1k" Forostyanko were removed from the squad. They were replaced by Nikolai "mir" Bityukov from Gambit Esports and 17-year-old Boris "magixx" Vorobyov from the ESPADA team. Roster ''Dota 2'' The organisation signed its first team in '' Dota 2'' by acqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fnatic (Dota 2)
Fnatic (pronounced "fanatic"; also stylized as fnatic or FNATIC) is a professional esports organization headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Founded 23 July 2004, the team has players from around the world, across a variety of games, such as ''Apex Legends'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' Dota 2'', '' FIFA'', ''Heroes of the Storm'', ''League of Legends'', '' Valorant'', and ''Rainbow Six Siege''. Fnatic's ''League of Legends'' team won the first-ever League of Legends World Championship in 2011, and also held the record for the most League of Legends Championship Series split titles in the LEC—totalling seven of the 19 played so far ()—until G2 Esports won their eighth title in the 2020 LEC Summer Split. With the 2015 EU LCS Summer Split they became the first LCS team to finish a split undefeated. Fnatic's ''CS:GO'' team, which has traditionally been located in Sweden, won the first ever ''CS:GO'' Major in 2013 and two more between 2013 and 2015. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MVP Phoenix
MVP is a professional esports organization in South Korea with teams competing in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Honor of Kings'', ''League of Legends'', ''Overwatch'', and '' PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds''. It formerly had players competing in ''Dota 2'', '' Heroes of the Storm'', and ''StarCraft II''. MVP's ''League of Legends'' team formerly competed in the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), the highest level of professional ''League of Legends'' in South Korea, before being relegated in late 2018 to the secondary league, Challengers Korea (CK). ''Dota 2'' MVP previously had four ''Dota 2'' teams: MVP Phoenix, MVP HOT6ix, MVP Aegis, and MVP Revolution. MVP Phoenix was the primary ''Dota'' team and the last to disband when it did so on January 9, 2017. Final roster Tournament results * 7–8th — The International 2015 * 5–6th — MLG World Finals 2015 * 4th — Game Show Global eSports Cup Season 1 * 4th — Shanghai Major 2016 * 1st — Dota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Spirit
Team Spirit was a joint military training exercise of United States Forces Korea and the Military of South Korea held between 1974 and 1993. The exercise was also scheduled from 1994 to 1996 but cancelled during this time period as part of diplomatic efforts to encourage the Government of North Korea to disable the North Korean nuclear weapons program. The North Korea regime abandoned talks following the January 1986 Team Spirit exercises, and in late 1992, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the South-North High-Level Talks due to the 1993 Team Spirit exercise. Until 2007 the exercise had been called "Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration of Forces" (RSOI). As of March 2008, it is called Key Resolve. North Korea has denounced the joint military exercise as a "war game aimed at a northward invasion." Team Spirit is a tactical exercise conducted in the spring. RSOI is a command post exercise conducted in late summer. RSOI focused on staff procedures at theater l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CompLexity Gaming
Complexity Gaming, formerly stylized as compLexity, is an American esports franchise headquartered in Frisco, Texas. The franchise was founded in 2003 by Jason Lake and is co-owned by Lake, real estate investor John Goff, and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Complexity operates out of the Legion by Lenovo Esports Center, an esports training facility in The Star. The franchise competes in ''Apex Legends'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' FIFA'', ''Fortnite'', '' Hearthstone'', '' Madden'', '' Magic: The Gathering Arena'', ''Rocket League'', and '' Valorant''. Complexity formerly competed in several other games, including ''Call of Duty'', ''Dota 2'', ''Heroes of the Storm'', and '' League of Legends''. In addition to competitive teams, Complexity also streams gaming sessions over Twitch. Complexity formerly maintained Limit (stylized as Complexity Limit), a ''World of Warcraft'' guild, until the end of their sponsorship deal with the guild in early 2022. Foundi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGD Gaming
LGD Gaming is a Chinese professional esports organization based in Hangzhou. It is one of the oldest esports organizations in China and currently has players competing in ''Dota 2'', '' Honor of Kings'', ''League of Legends'', ''Overwatch'', and ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds''. LGD's ''Dota 2'' team, PSG.LGD, is in a partnership with PSG Esports, and is known for making it to the grand finals of The International 2018. Its ''League of Legends'' team competes in the League of Legends Pro League (LPL), the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in China. ''Dota 2'' LGD Gaming's original ''Dota 2'' division was founded along with the organization in 2009. In April 2018, French football club Paris Saint-Germain F.C. partnered with LGD, sponsoring and rebranding the ''Dota 2'' team to PSG.LGD. After winning two Dota Pro Circuit majors in 2017 and 2018, the team secured a directive invite to The International 2018, where they advanced to the grand finals but lost to O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
