The VSU Students’ sports club “Khitschnye Bobry” (Rapacious Beavers) took 2nd place at the regional stage of the All-Russian Student Computer ESports League. The participants showed the highest skill in the CS:GO discipline. In this discipline they managed to reach the final without a single defeat and took first place. The team was made up of Kirill Koskov, Ilya Khimensky, Sergei Melnik, Oleg Ivlev, Dmitry Obolonsky, Maksim Shirma, Egor Chernikov, Ivan Makarov, and Nikita Petrov. It was led by Egor Ratkov.
The club’s Dota 2 team, which was formed during university qualifications, also performed well. They took second place.
The team consisted of Oleg Sadchikov, Roman Rogozin, Aleksei Tarnov, Oleg Grishaev, Aleksandr Ternovy, Aleksandr Tkachev, Ilya Bryazgunov, Vladislav Travin, and Kirill Sidorov. It was led by Fagan Guseinov.
The “surprise” of the season was Yuri Pimenov, a student from the Faculty of Geology. Prior to the qualification stage, he was known as a football player. He has taken part in the qualifying stage of the Championship of the Association of Student Sports Clubs of Russia for a number of years. However, this year Yuri also competed as part of the “Khitschnye Bobry” team at the All-Russian Student ESports League in the ClashRoyale discipline. He took third place.
Ustin Chebotarev, a student from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, and Nikita Poimanov, a student of the Faculty of Economics, showed excellent results in the early rounds of the league.
Throughout all stages of the league, the teams were coordinated by Irina Ryabykh, a student of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, Chair of the VSU sports club “Khitschnye Bobry”, Andrei Syzykh, a student from the Faculty of Law and one of the league’s main commentators, and Timur Krutskikh, a student of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, the cyber sports manager of the sports club.
