Virtus.pro


Virtus.pro is an esports organization based in Russia. Founded in 2003, the organization currently has players competing in such games as ', Dota 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Starcraft II, ', Paladins, Quake Champions 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. Since 2015 Virtus.pro is a part of the ESforce esports holding.
Virtus.pro's Dota 2 team has participated in multiple Majors, winning record 5 of them and becoming the best Dota Pro Circuit first season team. Their League of Legends team won LCL Spring 2017.
VP's Polish Golden Five CS:GO team is considered one of the best teams in the history of Counter-strike, winning EMS One Katowice 2014 Major and several other premier tournaments.

''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''

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. The team then got 5–8 at ESL One Cologne 2014.

2015

Virtus.pro won at ESEA 18th season in April. Virtus.pro beat Natus Vincere to win CEVO Season 7 in July.
On October 2 it was announced that Virtus.pro had joined an esports team trade union along with a dozen other teams.

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

2017

Virtus.pro finishes 2nd place at the ELEAGUE Atlanta major, winning $150k.
Virtus.pro finishes 1st place at DreamHack Masters - Las Vegas 2017, winning $200k.
Virtus.pro finishes 2nd place at EPICENTER 2017, winning $100k.

2018

Due to poor results, on December 13, 2018, Virtus.pro CS:GO roster was suspended. A new roster was later formed, composed of Michał "snatchie" Rudzki, Michał "MICHU" Müller, and Mateusz "TOAO" Zawistowski, with former members Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski, and Paweł "byali" Bieliński coming back to active duty in the roster.

2019

"Vegi" to replace "Toao" in the active squad and "Snax" takes over IGL role. Due to poor results and grown unhappy with the team, Paweł "byali" Bieliński decided to leave Virtus.pro. VP adds Okoliciouz as a replacement for byali. Virtus.pro decided to test some players out, benching Michał "Okoliciouz" Głowaty that had a short lived place in the VP squad, replaced by a stand in Tomasz "phr" Wójcik.
Virtus.pro win Polish Esport League Spring, taking $10,708 with them. This event was the first 1st-place finish since Adrenaline Cyber League 2017, which was won by the original roster.
December 16, 2019 Virtus.pro have announced that they have completed the signing of the AVANGAR roster.

2020

May 23, 2020 Virtus.pro acquire "YEKINDAR" from pro100 as "buster" steps down from the starting lineup. Additionally, "Flatra" joins as assistant coach.

Roster

IDNameRoleJoin date
qikertAlexey GolubevRifler 16 December 2019
JameDzhami AliAWPer16 December 2019
SANJISanjar KulievRifler 16 December 2019
AdreNDauren KystaubayevRifler /Captain16 December 2019
YEKINDARMareks GaļinskisRifler 23 May 2020
dastanDastan AkbayevCoach16 December 2019
FlatraAleksei ZlobichAssistant Coach23 May 2020
busterTimur TulepovRifler 16 December 2019

Results

Bold denotes a CS:GO

2013

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. In November, the team won The Summit 6 LAN event, sweeping OG 3–0 in a best-of-five series.

2017

Virtus.pro placed 5th - 6th at The International 2017. Virtus.pro wins ESL One Hamburg 2017, the first major of the 2017-2018 Dota Pro Circuit season.

2018

Virtus.pro won four majors, winning ESL One Katowice 2018, The Bucharest Major and ESL One Birmingham 2018, they also became the first team to win two ESL One majors back-to-back. In the new season of the 2018-2019 Dota Pro Circuit season, they became the winner of the first major of the season, the Kuala Lumpur Major.

2019

Despite being second place on 2018-2019 Dota Pro Circuit season and one of the favorites to win The International 2019, Virtus.pro got knocked out of the tournament by Royal Never Give Up, ending their journey with a 9th-12th place. After the disappointing run, the roster was rebuilt, with Ramzes and 9pasha left the team after staying with the team for almost three years. Furthermore, RodjER was benched and the coach ArsZeeqq left as well. Replacing them would be epileptick1d, Resolut1on and Save-, where epileptick1d and Save- will be playing as stand-ins.

2020

On April 1, 2020, Virtus.pro announces its second Dota 2 lineup: VP.Prodigy.

Roster

AliasNamePositionJoin date
iLTWIgor Filatov1 4 April 2020
NoneVladimir Minenko24 August 2016
Resolut1onRoman Fominok328 September 2019
ZayacBakyt Emilzhanov43 February 2020
SoloAlexei Berezin5 4 August 2016

VP.Prodigy

AliasNamePositionJoin date
epileptick1dEgor Grigorenko11 April 2020
fnRostislav Lozovoi2 1 April 2020
DMDmitry Dorokhin31 April 2020
Save-Vitalie Melnic4 1 April 2020
yumeAlbert Garayev51 April 2020

''Rainbow Six Siege''

On May 16, 2020, Virtus.pro enters the Rainbow Six scene by acquiring the roster of forZe Esports. The original roster consisted of Pavel "Amision" Chebatkov, Pavel "P4sh4" Kosenko, Alan "Rask" Ali, Artyom "Shockwave" Simakov, Artyom "wTg" Simakov, along with Kerim "Toda" Musaev as a coach and Andrey "Adreezy" Bavian as analyst.

Roster

Achievements

''League of Legends''

On June 28, 2014, Virtus.pro acquired the roster of Dragon Team. Soon the team disbands, but in November 2016 Virtus.pro re-opened its LoL division and acquired the LCL Spot of Vaevictis Syndicate. On September 19, 2017, the organization closed its League of Legends department.

Former Roster

''Fortnite''

On July 19, 2018, Virtus.pro opened a division of Fortnite, the first players in the new discipline were Arthur "7ssk7" Kurshin and Jamal "Jamside" Saydayev. On September 21, 2018, Dmitry "HURMA" Heins and Seid-Magomed "FiveSkill" Edilgireev joined the organization. On October 16, 2019, "FiveSkill" and "HURMA" leave the team.

Roster

Former members
IDNameJoin dateLeave date
HURMADmitry Geynts21 September 201816 October 2019
FiveSkillSeid-Magomed Edilgireev21 September 201816 October 2019
7ssk7Artur Kurshin19 July 201820 February 2020

''Starcraft 2''

On July 1st, 2014, Virtus.pro announced that they closed the StarCraft II section of their organization and that they would now focus on League of Legends instead.

Former Players

''Artifact''

June 21, 2018, long before the official release of the game, Virtus.pro announced its first player in the discipline, a former Hearthstone player Maria "Harleen" Kobzar. On November 23, 2018 Artem "DrHippi" Kravets, who previously defended the colors of Virtus.pro in Hearthstone, and Olzhas "Naiman" Batyrbekov joined the team. November 29, 2018 Artifact was released on sale. February 27th, 2019 "DrHippi" and "Harleen" leave the team. On September 10th "Naiman" retires and Virtus.pro leaves Artifact.

Former Roster

''Heroes of the Storm''

Former Players

''Quake Champions''

Former Players