In the recently concluded Dota 2 tournament The International 2015, Evil Geniuses defeated CDEC Gaming to win $6.6 million. Of the five who became millionaires is Suma1L, the youngest player in video game history to win over a million dollars.
EG led by captain Peter "ppd" Dager, defeated CDEC Gaming in a score of 3-1 in a best-of-5 match.
EG's team comprises the much-experienced Clinton "Fear" Loomis, who is one of the biggest names in the North American Dota scene and plays the 'carry' role in EG. The others are Kurtis "Aui_2000" Ling, Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora and Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan Syed.
It was a grand final among the two teams that surprised the whole of the gaming world. CDEC was a team that entered the tournament as a wildcard entry and stunned all the teams who came its way. It defeated every team including EG, which got in its way in the quarters.
But EG fought back from the lower brackets and got its revenge against CDEC in the grand finale, which took place on August 8 at the Keyarena in Seattle. The world witnessed for the first time an American team lift the Aegis of the Immortal after defeating the Chinese team.
Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan Syed
But no other record or feat surpassed that achieved by the young Pakistani boy of 16, Suma1L, who dazzled the world with his gameplay and earned the biggest prize money in video games.
In an interview, Suma1L talks about the hardships he had to overcome playing Dota in the 15 years he spent in Pakistan. He narrates that he sold his bicycle to play Dota and how he had a hard time pursuing his passion being from a family with eight members and sharing his room with 3 siblings.
He has been playing Dota since he was eight and says that he plays for nine hours each day to keep up his performance. So far he has had a meteoric rise from being introduced to the professional Dota scene only last year to winning the biggest tournament.
EG led by captain Peter "ppd" Dager, defeated CDEC Gaming in a score of 3-1 in a best-of-5 match.
EG's team comprises the much-experienced Clinton "Fear" Loomis, who is one of the biggest names in the North American Dota scene and plays the 'carry' role in EG. The others are Kurtis "Aui_2000" Ling, Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora and Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan Syed.
It was a grand final among the two teams that surprised the whole of the gaming world. CDEC was a team that entered the tournament as a wildcard entry and stunned all the teams who came its way. It defeated every team including EG, which got in its way in the quarters.
But EG fought back from the lower brackets and got its revenge against CDEC in the grand finale, which took place on August 8 at the Keyarena in Seattle. The world witnessed for the first time an American team lift the Aegis of the Immortal after defeating the Chinese team.
Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan Syed
But no other record or feat surpassed that achieved by the young Pakistani boy of 16, Suma1L, who dazzled the world with his gameplay and earned the biggest prize money in video games.
In an interview, Suma1L talks about the hardships he had to overcome playing Dota in the 15 years he spent in Pakistan. He narrates that he sold his bicycle to play Dota and how he had a hard time pursuing his passion being from a family with eight members and sharing his room with 3 siblings.
He has been playing Dota since he was eight and says that he plays for nine hours each day to keep up his performance. So far he has had a meteoric rise from being introduced to the professional Dota scene only last year to winning the biggest tournament.
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