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
ID | Name | Role | Join date | |
![]() | qikert | Alexey Golubev | Rifler | 16 December 2019 |
![]() | Jame | Dzhami Ali | AWPer | 16 December 2019 |
![]() | SANJI | Sanjar Kuliev | Rifler | 16 December 2019 |
![]() | AdreN | Dauren Kystaubayev | Rifler /Captain | 16 December 2019 |
![]() | YEKINDAR | Mareks Gaļinskis | Rifler | 23 May 2020 |
![]() | dastan | Dastan Akbayev | Coach | 16 December 2019 |
![]() | Flatra | Aleksei Zlobich | Assistant Coach | 23 May 2020 |
![]() | buster | Timur Tulepov | Rifler | 16 December 2019 |
Results
Bold denotes a CS:GO2013
- 3rd - Copenhagen Games 2013
- 1st - SLTV StarSeries V 2013
2014
- 2nd - Copenhagen Games 2014
- 1st - EMS One Katowice 2014
- 5–8th - ESL One Cologne 2014
- 3rd–4th - DreamHack Winter 2014
2015
- 3rd–4th - ESL One Katowice 2015
- 3rd–4th - ESL One Cologne 2015
- 5–8th - DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015
- 3rd–4th - FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals
- 1st - ESL ESEA Dubai Invitational 2015
2016
- 5–8th -
- 1st - SL i-League Invitational: Kiev
- 3rd–4th - ESL One Cologne 2016
- 1st - ELEAGUE Season 1
- 1st - Dreamhack Bucharest 2016
- 2nd - ESL One New York 2016
- 2nd - EPICENTER 2016
2017
- 2nd - ELEAGUE Major 2017
- 1st - DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017
- 1st - Adrenaline Cyber League
- 3rd–4th - PGL Major Kraków 2017
- 2nd - EPICENTER 2017
- 2nd - SL i-League Invitational Shanghai 2017
2018
- 15–16th - '
- 12–14th - StarSeries i-League season 4
- 13–16th - IEM Katowice 2018
- 12–14th - StarSeries i-League season 5
- 2nd - V4 Future Sport Festival
- 3rd - IEM Shanghai 2018
- 23rd–24th - '
- 5th - BLAST Pro Series Istanbul 2018
2019
- 7–8th - Charleroi Esports
- 2nd - ESL Polish Championship Spring 2019 Finals
- 3rd–4th - Moche XL Esports 2019
- 3rd–4th - Good Game League 2019
- 1st - Polish Esport League Spring 2019 Finals
- 7–8th - EPICENTER 2019
2020
- 5–6th - ICE Challenge 2020
- 13–16th - IEM Katowice 2020
- 13–15th - ESL Pro League Season 11: Europe
- 1st - BLAST Premier CIS Cup
''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. 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
Alias | Name | Position | Join date | |
![]() | iLTW | Igor Filatov | 1 | 4 April 2020 |
![]() | None | Vladimir Minenko | 2 | 4 August 2016 |
![]() | Resolut1on | Roman Fominok | 3 | 28 September 2019 |
![]() | Zayac | Bakyt Emilzhanov | 4 | 3 February 2020 |
![]() | Solo | Alexei Berezin | 5 | 4 August 2016 |
VP.Prodigy
Alias | Name | Position | Join date | |
![]() | epileptick1d | Egor Grigorenko | 1 | 1 April 2020 |
![]() | fn | Rostislav Lozovoi | 2 | 1 April 2020 |
![]() | DM | Dmitry Dorokhin | 3 | 1 April 2020 |
![]() | Save- | Vitalie Melnic | 4 | 1 April 2020 |
![]() | yume | Albert Garayev | 5 | 1 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 membersID | Name | Join date | Leave date | |
![]() | HURMA | Dmitry Geynts | 21 September 2018 | 16 October 2019 |
![]() | FiveSkill | Seid-Magomed Edilgireev | 21 September 2018 | 16 October 2019 |
![]() | 7ssk7 | Artur Kurshin | 19 July 2018 | 20 February 2020 |