The Russian-Ukrainian team Team Spirit (TS) has won its third victory in the largest international Dota 2 tournament, The International, which ended in Shanghai (China), becoming the first three-time champion in history. This is evidenced by the online broadcast of the championship on the Twitch platform.
In the final, TS played five matches (cards) against the Russian Parivision team, the final games ended with a score of 3:2 in favor of TS.
The team consists of four Russians and one Ukrainian: Ilya Yatoro Mulyarchuk, Denis Larl Sigitov, Magomed Collapse Khalilov, Alexey not me Kosmynin and Alexander rue Filin.
16 teams entered the group stage, Russian esports players are participants of 8 teams of the tournament. The TS team won $1.42 million.
The Russian-Ukrainian Parivision team that took second place — Alan Satanic Gallyamov, Vladimir No[o]ne Minenko, Evgeny Noticed Ignatenko, Edgar 9Class Naltakian and Andrey Dukalis Kuropatkin — received $434.6 thousand. The third place was taken by Team Yandex, which included two Russians, two representatives of Kazakhstan and a participant from North Macedonia. Their winnings amounted to $ 300.8 thousand.
TS team member Ilya Yatoro Mulyarchuk has a tradition of shaving his head before every grand final of The International, this time the esportsman didn't do it, but the team still won a historic victory.
The International, which took place in Shanghai on August 13, became the 15th anniversary world Dota 2 cyber tournament. The prize fund amounted to $ 3.329 million. The broadcast of the grand final on the Twitch platform in the early morning of August 23 was watched by more than 271 thousand English-speaking users, in Russia the broadcast gained about 40 thousand views.
As EADaily reported, in October 2023, Team Spirit won the second victory in The International tournament, becoming the two-time world champion in Dota 2 for the first time. In the decisive match, TS beat Gaimin Gladiators 3:0 team, which brought together gamers from Western Europe. For the victory, the guys received $ 1.4 million.
In December 2024, Team Spirit became the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 champion in the Counter-Strike 2 shooter in Shanghai.
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