Virtus.pro

Virtus.pro
Nickname Медведи (Bears)
Short name VP
Divisions Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
League of Legends
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Founded 2003
Location Moscow, Russia (Dota 2)
Warsaw, Poland (CS:GO)
Partners G2A
Twitch
Media Markt
Fragstore
VertaGear
Website virtus.pro

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

Counter Strike GO

Virtus.pro
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Championships EMS One Katowice 2014
ELeague Season 1
DreamHack Las Vegas 2017
Members TaZ, NEO, pasha, Snax, byali

2014

On January 25, Virtus.pro signed the five member roster of AGAiN, Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski, Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski, Paweł "byali" Bieliński, and Golden Five players Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas, Filip "Neo" Kubski. 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.

Virtus.pro won 1st place and $390,000 in the inaugural ELeague season.[8]

On December 19 Virtus Pro re-signed the roster for another four years.[9]

2017

Virtus.pro finishes 2nd place at the ELEAGUE Atlanta major, winning $150k.

Virtus.pro finishes 1st place at DreamHack Masters - Las Vegas 2017,[10] winning $200k.

Roster

ID Name Join date
TaZ Wiktor Wojtas 2014-01-25 [11]
NEO Filip Kubski 2014-01-25 [11]
pashaBiceps Jarosław Jarząbkowski 2014-01-25 [11]
byali Paweł Bieliński 2014-01-25 [11]
Snax Janusz Pogorzelski 2014-01-25 [11]
kuben (Coach) Jakub Gurczyński 2015-02-02 [12]

Results

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Dota 2

2014

Virtus.pro attended The International 2014.

2015

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

2016

Virtus.pro released its squad after failing to qualify for The International 2016, but reformed shortly after.[21] In November, the team won The Summit 6 LAN event, sweeping OG 3-0 in a best-of-five series.[22]

Roster

World of Tanks

Starcraft 2

Heroes of the Storm

Roster

Former

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. ↑ Striker (July 30, 2016). "Virtus.pro win ELEAGUE Season 1". HLTV. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ https://dotesports.com/counter-strike/virtus-pro-resigns-its-csgo-roster-until-2020-4131
  10. ↑ http://masters.dreamhack.com/vegas/
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 "Virtus.pro recruit AGAiN". hltv.org.
  12. ↑ http://www.hltv.org/news/14148-kuben-joins-virtuspro-as-coach
  13. ↑ "News: NiP wins over Virtus.pro at Copenhagen Games 2014". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  14. ↑ "Virtus.pro win SL i-League #1". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  15. ↑ Striker (July 30, 2016). "Virtus.pro win ELEAGUE Season 1". HLTV. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Virtus.pro win DreamHack Bucharest". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
  17. ↑ "Natus Vincere win ESL One New York". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  18. ↑ "dignitas beat VP to win EPICENTER". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
  19. ↑ . HLTV.org http://www.hltv.org/news/19890-vp-win-dreamhack-masters-las-vegas. Retrieved 2017-02-20. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. ↑ https://www.hltv.org/news/20751/virtuspro-win-adrenaline-cyber-league
  21. ↑ "Virtus.pro's Dota 2 team disbands". Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  22. ↑ Van Allen, Eric. "Virtus.Pro sweeps OG 3-0 in TS6 finals". ESPN. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
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