In its current era of dominance, Astralis boasts 11 tournament victories, the IEM Grand Slam, and back-to-back Major victories at the FACEIT and IEM Katowice 2019 Majors - where they have gone on a ludicrous playoffs streak of 12-0. Much like OG, Astralis is a one-game esports team that has achieved legendary status in esports through sheer dominance in their one game: CS:GO. However, the team would astound viewers with a Cinderella run that culminated in a 3-2 victory over PSG.LGD in one of the most legendary matches in all of esports, with OG walking away with the Aegis of Champions and over $11 million dollars - the biggest prize that any esports team has won in a single tournament to date. This forced the team to qualify for Dota 2’s biggest tournament yet - with a prize pool of over $25 million - with only a ragtag roster that had everyone predicting yet another early exit for OG. Prior to TI8, OG’s roster was gutted when two of its members - including team founder Fly - left for Evil Geniuses.
But despite all that, the team did not win when it mattered the most in TI6 and TI8. OG also claimed consecutive Major victories as well as defended a Major title as returning champions. OG dominated the Dota 2 scene for two years winning the Frankfurt Major in 2015, the Boston and Manila Majors in 2016, and the Kiev Major in 2017.
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It was founded by Dota 2 pro players Tai “Fly” Aizik and Johan “notail” Sundstein back in 2015. While OG may be one of those rather unorthodox one-game esports teams, it has reached heights that any other organization would be envious of.
It has since then become one of the most dominant teams in Dota 2’s history, boasting no less than 10 LAN tournament wins since the core roster came together - though Virtus.pro has yet to win a championship at TI. While only attaining marginal success in the early days of Dota 2, the organization hit its stride when it signed a roster of the best players from the CIS region in August 2016. That lineup was also the longest standing 5-man roster in CS:GO to date, only ending with a roster change last year.Īs for Dota, Virtus.pro has long been active in the game and even fielded teams during the days of Dota 1. Despite being prone to periods of ups and downs, the team remains one of the most successful teams in CS:GO of all time, accumulating several high-profile tournament wins, most notably the EMS One: Katowice Major back in 2014. In 2014, the organization signed the popular Polish roster that would go on to be dubbed “ow” for their explosive playstyle. Virtus Pro is a Russian esports organization founded back in 2003 that is mostly known for the massive success of its CS:GO and Dota 2 teams. Aside from CS:GO, NiP has also been active in other titles such as Dota 2, LoL, Rainbow Six Siege, PUBG, and Fortnite, among others.
Even so, “NiP magic” continues to live on in the hearts and minds of hardcore CS:GO fans. NiP started to fall off hard in 2014, and while there were periods of partial recovery for them, the team has failed to reach the same heights since. From September 2012 to April 2013, NiP went on a record-setting streak of 87-0 in LAN tournament map wins, not to mention making it to five straight major finals. In 2012, NiP assembled one of the most legendary lineups in CS:GO’s history that would go on a run of absolute dominance from September of that year to June 2014. The team did well enough during those early days of Counter-Strike but would be disbanded two times - first in 2002, then again in 2007– before it reached the pinnacle of success in CS:GO. Ninjas in Pyjamas, better known as NiP, is a Swedish esports organization that was founded back in 2000 centered around Counter-Strike 1.6.
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