$ 6 million Echo Slam and seven more reasons to remember the offline legend of UNiVeRsE

April 23 Sahil UNiVeRsE Arora completed the player’s career in Dota 2. Everyone immediately started publishing the very highlight – the legendary Echo Slam, which brought Evil Geniuses victory in the grand final of The International 2015. But I would not want this player to be remembered for only one moment in his career – UNiVeRsE is associated with many other stories. I propose to recall some of them in the material.

Opened to the world SumaiL

This is rarely talked about, but it was UNiVeRsE that pushed EG to sign Saeed Samael SumaiL Hassan – then another 15-year-old puber with no experience of performing on the professional stage. In the first tournament, the team failed, but from the second they began to show serious results, and six months later won the victory at The International. Who knows, maybe, if not for UNiVeRsE, Yawar YawaR Hassan he would remain the main eSportsman in the family.

Visited the first eight tournaments of the International series

UNiVeRsE will forever remain in the history of Dota 2 as a player who participated in the first eight world championships. Besides him, only three cybersportsmen succeeded – Clement Puppey Ivanov, Kuro KuroKy Salehi Tahasomi and Liang DDC Famengu. It is interesting that UNiVeRsE did not play at TI in 2011 – he came to the event in the status of a substitute and as a result remained out of work. However, he still got to Cologne, which means that everything is honest!

TI9 is the first tournament of the series that UNiVeRsE missed. A few months before the start of the preliminaries, his team – Forward Gaming – broke up, and the player took a break in his career before the start of the next season. Perhaps in the future other players will be added to the TI club of eight-time visitors, but UNiVeRsE will still be one of the first to succeed.

ENiVeRsE as part of Evil Geniuses. Photo: EPICENTER

Filmed the greatest “guide” in the history of Dota 2

On April 1, 2015, UNiVeRsE, at that time, perhaps the most famous professional offlainer, played the fans by releasing a video called “Faceless Void Guide”. However, instead of educational content, viewers found a music video with which the player responded to a similar-style composition from Curtis Aui_2000 Linga.

In the video, UNiVeRsE told the teammate about the warm feelings that he has for him, and also threw a stone into the garden Arthur Arteezy Babaevwho left Team Secret two months earlier.

Changed position when circumstances required

When it became clear that things were Ninjas in pajamas are not in the best way, UNiVeRsE without unnecessary words (it doesn’t have any other way) moved to the support position, losing to the “troika” to rookie Rodrigo Lelis Lelis Santos. As we know, not everyone can boast of such dedication.

To judge the results of castling, perhaps, is unnecessary. When this happened, NiP unexpectedly managed to qualify for ESL One Los Angeles 2023, but then the tournament was canceled. Next, the roster failed on WePlay! Dota 2 Tug of War: Mad Moon, and then was virtually destroyed by universal quarantine – the players were on different continents and could no longer speak together. Perhaps if there had been a pandemic, UNiVeRsE would now continue to fight for the slot on the TI10.

Destroyed Resolut1on in the show from Cybersport.ru

Arora came to Forward Gaming at EPICENTER Major 2019 and soon ended up at the game P E R E V O D C H I K from Cybersport.ru. Became his opponent Roman Resolut1on Fominokwho took the lead on the first question, but then never managed to surpass UNiVeRsE in reaction speed.

Did the same highlight

It would be strange to ignore Echo Slam in the TI5 final in an article about UNiVeRsE. This moment forever settled in all the cuts of “the craziest reactions of the caster”, because of it the phrase It’s a disastah sounded! from TobiWan, and it is he who, perhaps, will remain the main monument to the career of UNiVeRsE.

Interestingly, the second creator of this episode was ppd, which ended his career a couple of days before Arara. Together they brought the American Dota 2 to a new level and achieved the best result in the history of the region. Perhaps one day another club will be able to repeat the achievements of those Evil Geniuses, but even then it is unlikely to be able to outshine Echo Slam by $ 6 million.

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