Natus Vincere

Natus Vincere - from armor.   —   "given rise to win"

Ukrainian multigeymingovy cybersports organization. In 2010 the structure on the game Counter-Strike 1.6 for the first time in the history won three large tournaments in one year — Intel Extreme Masters, Electronic Sports World Cup and World Cyber Games 2010. In the summer of 2011 the Dota-team's line-up became the best on the DotA 2 The International tournament, having beaten the Chinese EHOME team in the final and having won $1 000 000 for the first place.

DIVISION

Counter-Strike

In 2009 Vlad Havrak ("MOOR") forms the Arbalet.UA team consisting of the Ukrainian players in Counter-Strike 1.6 supporting earlier the KerchNET and Pro100 teams. The team was joined by Kharkov citizens Daniil Teslenko ("Zeus") and Ivan Sukharev ("Edward"), Kiev resident Sergey Ishchuk ("starix"), Arseny Trinozhenko ("ceh9") from Lviv and Egor Markelov ("markeloff") from Dnipropetrovsk. Alexander Kokhanovsky ("ZeroGravity") from Kiev became the manager of the team. After the victory in the Arbalet Cup Asia 2010 tournament at which the team of the Arbalest performed under the name "Na'Vi" a competition on the best name of team therefore collective is renamed into the final name "Natus Vincere" (Latin given rise to win is held), having kept клантег "Na'Vi".

2010 becomes triumphal for Natus Vincere. The team at first wins against Swedish team of fnatic the grand final of the fourth season of Intel Extreme Masters, then the first of teams of the CIS becomes the world champion in the version of ESWC, and later adds to the list of achievements a victory in the World Cup of World Cyber Games, having become the first-ever team which won three most prestigious champion titles (IEM, ESWC, WCG) in one year. The end of the year of Natus Vincere win on the DreamHack Winter 2010 LAN tournament and set the next record, having earned more than 215 thousand dollars in a year, having beaten the previous achievement of fnatic (189 thousand dollars for 2009).

On March 5, 2011 in Hanover Natus Vincere defends a title of world champions in the Intel Extreme Masters version and earns $35 000. Only in 2012 Natus Vincere give a title, having lost in the final of IEM VI World Championship. At the end of 2012 all players turn into new discipline — Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Unlike the division on Counter-Strike 1.6 which was trying to obtain the maximum achievements and not changing from 2009 to 2012, the division on CS:GO doesn't try to obtain success at the highest level in this connection in 2013 the team's line-up repeatedly changes and the team is left by Egor Markelov, Arseny Trinozhenko. Since December, 2013 collective remained invariable for nearly one and a half years while in March, 2015 it wasn't declared Sergey Ishchuk's transition to a position of the manager and the coach of the team [2]. In April, 2015 Natus Vincere, at last, tries to obtain the first serious victory in the international tournament on CS:GO, having become the winner of a premier season of ESL Pro League [3].

Current structure of Natus Vincere:

Alexander "s1mple" Kostylev

Ioann "Edward" Sukharev

Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovac

Egor "flamie" Vasilyev

Denis "seized" Kostin

Dota 2 

In October, 2010 it was declared creation of part on the game DotA which the best Ukrainian players in this discipline were. Originally joined the team five players, however on December 23, 2010 the team was left by Andrey Chipenko ("Mag") and Alexander Stepanyuk ("Deff"). Then the Ukrainian players of DTS.Chatrix — Dima Klimovich ("datelvod") and Ivan Antonov ("Artstyle") who became the captain of new structure joined collective. After the victory on ASUS Spring 2011 the team is left by Bogdan Boychuk (Akhura) and Artur Kostenko ("Goblak") replaced with the Russian player Dmitry Kupriyanov ("LighTofHeaveN") and the Ukrainian #КБУ kocker (Konstantin Kisil), one of veterans of the European DotA. Thus, from initial structure there was only Alexander Dashkevich ("XBOCT").

In August, 2011 within the GamesCom exhibition the first-ever tournament on Dota 2 — The International is held. Natus Vincere become winners of a tournament, in the final with the score 3:1 having played the Chinese EHOME group and having won $1 000 000. The victory does Natus Vincere by the most successful cybersports organization in the world, from the general prize-winning more than $1 300 000 since the beginning of 2010. In 2012 and 2013 of Natus Vincere continue to act successfully on The International, taking the second place in 2012 and 2013.

On June 3, 2014 on the official site of Natus Vincere it was declared opening of the second, American structure on Dota 2 under the name "Na'Vi.US". Na’Vi.US is the former structure of North American Rejects (NAR) which won the American qualification of The International 4 and The Summit. On December 5, 2014 the structure was disbanded.

Since the beginning of July, 2014 in team the trainer, the former team player of Rox.Kis, the member of initial structure of Na'Vi — Artur Kostenko ("Goblak") appears. Despite it, the team acts unsuccessfully on The International 2014 that leads to leaving of Clement Ivanov ("Puppey") and Kuro Salekhi Takhasomi ("KuroKy"), and further repeated changes in structure.

In April, 2015 the management of the organization takes the radical decision on return in team of Ivan Antonov ("ArtStyle") who was the captain on victorious The International 2011, other former player of Natus Vincere Gleb Lipatnikov ("Funn1k") and also Akbar Butayev's ("SoNNeikO") [4] signing. Despite the absence of the direct invitation to The International 2015, in the updated structure the team wins the European qualifying tournament and acquires the right of participation in the main tournament of year [5].

On October 16, 2015 the Natus Vincere organization reported about dissolution of structure on Dota 2[6]. But later Na’Vi.DotA 2 declared structure the return. Were this part: Danil "Dendi" Ishutin and Akbar "SoNNeikO" Butayev. After some games as tests, joined the team: Dmitry "Ax.Mo" Morozov, Ivan "ArtStyle" Antonov and Dmitry "Ditya Ra" Minenkov.

In January, 2016 after scandal in team as Dmitry "Ax.Mo" Morozov's replacement Victor "GeneraL" Nigrini appeared.

On July 25, 2016 Natus Vincere win the first in two years title, having beaten the Team Secret team in the final of the second season of StarLadder i-League StarSeries and having won 135 000 dollars [7].

Team's line-up (on July 25, 2016):

Danil "Dendi" Ishutin

Akbar "SoNNeikO" Butayev

Ivan "ArtStyle" Antonov

Dmitry "Ditya Ra" Minenkov

Victor "General" Nigrini

other types of cybersport:

Fifa
Starcraft
League of legends
Heroes of the Storm
World of tanks