Virtus.pro

Virtus.Pro

Location	Russia
Founded	2003
Divisions	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 World of Tanks Starcraft II Heroes Of The Storm
Website	Website

Virtus.pro or Virtus Pro is an esports based in Russia with competing teams in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, World of Tanks, Starcraft II and Heroes Of The Storm. In November 2015 the team got an investment of over $100,000,000 USD from Alisher Usmanovof's USM Holdings.^[1][2] Virtus.pro's CS:GO team is based in Poland.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Virtus.pro

Sport	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

2014

Virtus.pro won EMS One Katowice 2014 by beating Ninjas in Pyjamas in the finals.^[3] The team then got 5-8 at ESL One Cologne 2014.^[4]

2015

Virtus.pro won at ESEA 18th season in April.^[5] Virtus.pro beat Natus Vincere to win CEVO Season 7 in July.^[6]

On October 2 it was announced that Virtus.pro had joined an esports team trade union along with a dozen other teams.^[7]

2016

Virtus.pro made it to the quarterfinals in MLG Columbus after beating G2 Esports 2-0 in a best-of-three game.

Roster

• Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas
• Filip "NEO" Kubski
• Jarosław "pasha" Jarząbkowski
• Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski
• Paweł "byali" Bieliński

Coach

• Jakub "kuben" Gurczynski^[8]

Results

• 3rd Copenhagen Games 2013
• 1st SLTV StarSeries V 2013
• 2nd Copenhagen Games 2014^[9]
• 1st - EMS One Katowice 2014
• 5–8th - ESL One Cologne 2014
• 3–4th - DreamHack Winter 2014
• 3–4th - ESL One Katowice 2015
• 3–4th - ESL One Cologne 2015
• 5–8th - DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015
• 3–4th - FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals
• 5–8th - MLG Major Championship: Columbus

Dota 2

2014

Virtus.pro attended The International 2014.

2015

Virtus.pro placed 5th-6th at The International 2015.

Roster

• Artsiom "Fng" Barshak
• Ayrat "Silent" Gaziev
• Ilya "Lil" Ilyuk
• Sergei "God" Bragin
• Olexander "DkPhobos" Kucherya

World of Tanks

• Dmitry "Kycok_Ov4arku" Kasatkin
• Ivan "Break_neck" Fefelov
• Maxim "Dellight" Sinichkin
• Sergei "JustCauz" Osipenko
• Andrey "koreetz" Kasparov
• Ivan "Vors1lk" Fokin
• Victor "bishop" Novohatskiy

Starcraft 2

• Artem "sLivko" Garavtsov

Heroes Of The Storm

Roster

•  Ukraine | Vsevolod "CEBKAJE" Demianenko
•  Ukraine | Oleg "PowerOfDreams" Bondarenko
•  Russia | Vladislav "NeonOmg" Zelinsky
•  Russia | Alexander "RemmerBaller" Remmerswaal
•  Poland | Lucasz "LeoFromKorea" Mirec

Former

•  Latvia | Arthur "bkbgrnrjefek" Hlibovs - Tank (New Team)
•  Russia | Evgeny "Lunarn" Evdokimov - Support (Stop Playing)
•  France | Gabin "Doc" Paquot - Support (Stop Playing)
•  Russia | iliya "Unstable" Grigoriev - Support (New Team)
•  Russia | Andrey "AndyLendi" Pishikov - Flex (New Team)
•  England | Stephan "Holachy" Howard - Specialist (Stop Playing)
•  Russia | Alena "Gela" Shuspanikova - Flex (Stop Playing)
•  Russia | Stepan "Kunichan" Zhilin - Flex (Stop Playing)

References

1. Lingle, Samuel (October 15, 2015). "Virtus.Pro receives investment that could hit $100 million". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
2. Sillis, Ben (October 16, 2015). "What can $100 million buy an eSports team?". Red Bull eSports. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
3. Nordmark, Sam 'Wndwrt' (March 17, 2014). "EMS One Katowice concludes with Virtus.pro dominating NiP". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
4. "ESL One Cologne 2014 – Winners". Counter-Strike. Valve Corporation. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
5. Wynne, Jared (Apr 20, 2015). "Virtus.pro win, Americans lose at ESEA". The Daily Dot.
6. Wynne, Jared (July 27, 2015). "Virtus.pro topple Na`Vi, Americans at CEVO". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
7. Lewis, Richard (October 3, 2015). "E-Sports Team Union Formalises And Reveals Demands For 2016". E-Frag. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
8. Mira, Luis (February 2, 2015). "kuben joins Virtus.pro as coach". HLTV. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
9. "News: NiP wins over Virtus.pro at Copenhagen Games 2014". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2014-04-22.

External links

• Official website