6 February in the eSports world

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Birthdays

Today we can congratulate such representative of the eSports world: Zeng «Faith» Hongda (26 y.o., Dota 2, Newbee)Simon «pAn» Schumacher (26 y.o., CS:GO)Garrett «GarrettG» Gordon (17 y.o., Rocket League, NRG eSports)Antonio «Woolridge» Fernández (22 y.o., Overwatch, Wizard e-Sports Club)Alberto «Crumbz» Rengifo (25 yo., Overwatch, analyst/commentator) Especially we want to emphasize a Dota 2 player Newbee. Being 26 y.o. Faith managed to get these achievements: The International 2012 — 1 place ($1,000,000)WPC 2014 — 1 place ($160,000)Dota 2 Professional League Season 2 — Top ($238,000)Perfect World Masters — 1 place ($150,000)ESL One Genting 2018 — 1 place ($160,000)The International 2017 — 2 place ($3,950,000) Besides, Faith achieved many other things as well.

Patches

In 2008 Dota 2 was updated to the version 6,50. With this patch many characters and items were changed and also Invoker was added.

Bans

In 2015 such CS:GO players like Uzzziii, fxy0, GMX, B1GGY, DiAMon, bCk, kub, matty and michi was banned at Valve tournaments for participating in fake matches.