Tal Aizik (

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: טל אייזיק; born 9 March 1993), better known as Fly, is an

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i professional ''

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'' player for Nouns Esports. He is a former co-founder of the

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team OG. Aizik won four

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with team OG.

Career

Coming from iLx along with N0tail and NoVa, Aizik took over the drafter role in

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HoN squad. Being one of the longest serving members of Fnatic HoN squad, he switched with the team to

. Fly and n0tail left fnatic in August 2014. Tal played the offlane role for

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, joining them along with BigDaddy. Tal and n0tail were separated at the end of 2014, when Aizik left Secret. They were re-united after

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in order to create a new team. He founded OG on 31 October 2015. Soon after their renaming to OG, they won the

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tournament in November 2015, winning around US$1 million in prize money. Despite a 7th-place finish at the

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in March 2016, OG won the

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in June 2016, becoming the first team to repeat as champions of a Valve-sponsored ''Dota 2'' tournament. OG also won the lesser ESL One Frankfurt 2016 tournament. OG entered

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as one of the favorites, but finished 9-12th out of 16 teams. On 24 August 2016, founding members MoonMeander, Miracle- Al-Barkawi, and Cr1t- Nielsen left the team, but Fly remained. On 31 August 2016, s4,

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, and ana joined the team. He is the son of the

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instructor

Moni Aizik Moni Aizik () is an Israeli-born martial artist. Aizik has a jujutsu and judo background and is the founder of Commando Krav Maga. Israel At the age of eight, under Opa Schutte, Aizik started training in judo and jujutsu. He won national title i ...

. Tal has done instructor courses and has an active interest in Krav Maga himself. He says that if he were not a professional ''Dota 2'' player, he would be a Krav Maga teacher. In May 2018, he left OG to join Evil Geniuses, along with s4.
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