Recently Ukrainian-turned eSahara claimed first place in group B of the Dota 2 Star Challenge, overcoming TeamShakira in the last round.
After endeavours in non-profit projects such as TR or the Hard Team, where the efforts of Vitaliy "Nexius" Boshko, Artiom "Jerry" Balkashinov, Andrey "Sparrow" Chipenko (aka mag~) Gleb "funn1k" Lipatnikov and Vitaliy "dubas" Luhtan were overshadowed by more popular players, the five went on to start their own team several weeks ago.
It was French eSports organization eSahara were to pick up the collective ten days ago, relying on the consistancy and arguably their close travel distance to the Cyberarena, one of highest developed gaming centers in the world and home to several tournaments.
Group A | Group B | ||||||
Teams | W | L | Points | Teams | W | L | Points |
Na`Vi | 3 | 0 | 9 | eSahara | 3 | 0 | 9 |
TR | 2 | 1 | 6 | Team Shakira | 2 | 1 | 9 |
Fos Style | 1 | 2 | 3 | Game Zone | 0 | 3 | 1 |
3D | 0 | 3 | 0 | PD | 0 | 3 | 1 |
At the Dota 2 Star Championship the spotlight hits eSahara for the first time, after a clear win over Team Shakira in the third round of group B. Both teams had their slot in the playoffs secured, however neither side wanted to give up the game unchallenged.
The Ukrainians went off to a huge start going up 14-4 and further at some point. Team Shakira showed their qualities while holding their base for a long time, before eventually falling to the more powerful Dire-heroes. We caught the end of the match on camera, as the following clip proves.
Group D will see it's first matches progressing at the moment, while group C still awaits the arrival of TeG.
Update: TeG have still not left for Kiev and informed the administration that the team will not attend the D2SC. The remaining teams of group C therefore recieve one walkover win each.