Moscow Five

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Location:	Russia
Website:	Moscow 5
Sponsor:	BenQ MSi Teamkill
Youtube:	Moscow Five
Facebook:	Moscow Five
Twitter:	moscowfive
Number of Players:	0
History
Created:	2011-12-16
Disbanded:	2013-01-10
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Moscow Five is a now-defunct Russian eSports organization.

Founded in 2001, M5 had roots in Counter-Strike 1.6, WarCraft 3, FIFA, and DotA. In December 2011, Moscow Five recruited the players of Team Empire who qualified to compete in IEM Kiev. This team went on to be a dominant force in the European League of Legends scene throughout Season 2. On January 10th, 2013, resultant of the arrest of Moscow Five's CEO, Dmitry "ddd1ms" Smelyi, in July of the previous year, leaving the organization with a lack of funding, M5 released their League of Legends team and became inactive.

History

Acquisition of Team Empire

Looking to incorporate a League of Legends division into their gaming organization, on December 16, 2011, Moscow 5 recruited the roster of Team Empire, picking up Alex Ich, Diamondprox, Genja, GoSu Pepper, and Darien.

Season 2

Moscow 5's first major appearance would be at the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev on January 19th, 2012. It would be here that Moscow 5 would make a name for themselves internationally, as they had little fame prior to IEM Kiev. At the event, Moscow 5 would show a dominant performance, going undefeated in group stage against Dignitas, against All authority, and Sypher. Taking first by going 3-0 in the group stage, Moscow 5 would advance to the playoffs where they would take the series 2-0 against SK Gaming. Moving to the finals, Moscow 5 would defeat North American powerhouse Team SoloMid 2-1, dropping their only game of the tournament against Team SoloMid.

Nine days later, on January 31st, 2012, Moscow 5 would compete in the online Kings of Europe tournament. Once again showing their strength, Moscow 5 would go undefeated in the group stage, defeating SK Gaming, exGBT, and Team Mistral. Advancing to the playoffs, Moscow 5 would defeat French team Sypher 2-1 in the semifinals. In doing so, Moscow 5 would face off against Counter Logic Gaming EU in the finals, where they would fall 1-2.

On March 10th, 2012, Moscow 5 attended the IEM Season VI - World Championship in Hanover. Reproducing their results from Kiev, Moscow 5 would once again go undefeated in group stage 5-0, defeating SK Gaming, Curse Gaming, Team SoloMid, Sypher, and EHome. Moscow 5 would continue their win streak in the playoff bracket, beating Counter Logic Gaming Prime 2-0 in the semifinals and defeating Dignitas 2-0 in the finals to take home first place. This tournament would mark a high point in Moscow 5's history, as they were able to come out of the tournament not only victorious, but were able to do so while not dropping a single game throughout the entire competition.

Team Moscow 5's next high placing at a major tournament would be at the online Corsair Vengeance Cup. Coming out of the group stage of the tournament 2-1, Moscow 5 had a strong run in the playoffs, defeating Hauteur 8, Intent Gaming, TeamRedbyteItalia, and Meet Your Makers in the first four rounds of the playoff bracket, before falling to against All authority 0-2 in the second phase of the winner's bracket, knocking the Russian team down to the loser's bracket. Moscow 5 would face off against Team SoloMid in their first match of the loser's bracket, in which the Russian team would come out victorious 2-1. Moscow 5 would defeat SK Gaming 2-0 in the next round of the loser's bracket, which put them up to face against All authority. This time Moscow 5 would come out victorious, defeating aAa 2-0, which put the team up against Counter Logic Gaming EU in the grand finals of the Corsair Vengeance Cup. Unfortunately, Moscow 5 would fall short in the finals and lose to CLG.EU 0-2, taking home second place.

On June 16, Moscow 5 would attend DreamHack Summer 2012 after taking second at the online qualifiers. Moscow 5 would take second in group stage going 2-1, defeating Absolute Legends and Mebdi's Minions, but losing to Counter Logic Gaming EU. Advancing to the semifinals, Moscow 5 would face off against Curse Gaming EU, where the Russian team was able to come out ahead 2-0, advancing them to the grand finals of DreamHack Summer 2012. At the finals, Moscow 5 would play against Counter Logic Gaming EU, where they would fall 0-2.

On July 28, Moscow 5 attends European Challenger Circuit: Poland after qualifying online with a 2-0 victory over CLG.EU sending them to the loser's bracket. This would mean that the teams shall meet again in the group stage, where Moscow 5 took second place going 2-1, defeating EloHell.net and Ocelote World (x6) while losing a game to CLG.EU. In the semifinals, Moscow 5 had a strong showing defeating Curse EU 2-0, going with a perfect 15-0 score in the second game. At the finals, Moscow 5 would meet their rivals CLG.EU once again. After having a 0-4 record against them in lan events, Moscow 5 were able to claim their revenge with a commanding 2-0 victory making them the ECC Poland champions.

As one of the eight European invitees for the Season Two Regional Finals - Cologne, Moscow Five would fly out to Germany for a chance to qualify for the Season 2 World Championship. Matched up against the recently formed Polish team EloHell, Moscow Five would take a 2-0 victory to advance to the second round of the playoffs. There, Moscow Five was able to come out victorious against FnaticRC in a close 2-1, qualifying for the Season 2 World Championship and advancing to the grand finals of the tournament. Continuing their dominant performance, Moscow Five would take the finals 2-0 against SK Gaming.

At the Season 2 World Championship in October, Moscow Five was considered by many analysts and professionals to be the favorites coming into the event. They were was given a bye through the group stage and were selected to face Invictus Gaming in their quarterfinal match. Although iG consistently pressured M5's early game and won the laning phase, the Russian squad was able to overcome their deficits in the midgame and take the series 2-0. Advancing to face the Taipei Assassins in the semifinals, M5 continued their dominant form in the first game of the match and quickly secured game one. However, TPA matched M5's aggression in the next two games and successfully turned the series around. The Taiwanese team took the set 2-1, and Moscow Five was forced to settle for 3rd-4th place and $ 150,000.

Pre-Season 3

Moscow 5 would attend the European tournament Tales of the Lane from October 27th through November 11th, 2012. They would emerge as first in their group stage 3-1, with wins against Curse EU, Eclypsia and MYM, but losing to the hungry IWantCookie. They were granted seeding directly into the semi-finals due to their placing in the group stages. On November 11th M5 would travel to Paris to compete in the offline portions of the tournament. There they would face an upset from Curse EU, knocking them into the 3rd place match losing 0-2. They would finish the tournament with a sweep of SK Gaming, taking 3rd and €5,000 in winnings.

On November 22nd, 2012, Moscow 5 would fly to Shanghai to attend the TGA Winter 2012 event. While not contestants of the tournament itself, the team would look to boost their popularity with the Chinese tour, doing photo ops, fan signings and Mandarin greeting videos. M5 also played two show matches against WE and iG, winning against both. They would leave China on November 27th, flying directly to Las Vegas to attend IPL 5.

On Day 1 of the IPL event, M5 would advance through the group stages by defeating Curse Gaming twice and dropping a game to Taipei Assassins. They would then face World Elite which they scrimmed against heavily in Shanghai. However, WE would rout the Russian team 2-0, dropping them to the losers bracket. M5 would then defeat the tournament favorites Azubu Blaze in a close 3 game series. M5 would get a chance to revenge their loss in the Season 2 World Championship against in TPA in round 5. Despite Alex Ich amassing 538 creep score and leading in gold to the very end of the game, M5 would still fall to the Taiwanese team in game 1, and lose again to Stanley on Nidalee in game 2, making it five consecutive loses to TPA. M5 would finish the tournament at 4th place and earn $3,000 in winnings.

On January 10th, 2013, resultant of the arrest of Moscow Five's CEO in July of the previous year leaving the organization with a lack of funding, the League of Legends roster was released from the eSports organization.

Timeline

2011

• December 16th, Moscow Five acquires roster of Team Empire. Alex Ich, Darien, Diamondprox, Genja and GoSu Pepper join.

2012

• January 22nd, 1st place at IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev.
• January 31st, 2nd place in Kings of Europe.
• March 10th, 1st place at IEM Season VI - World Championship.
• May 24th, 2nd place in ESL Major Series Season IX.
• June 18th, 2nd place at DreamHack Summer 2012.
• July 29th, 1st place at European Challenger Circuit: Poland.
• August 19th, 1st place at Season Two European Regional Finals.
• September 25th, 3rd place in ESL Major Series Season X.
• October 10th, 3rd-4th place in Season 2 World Championship.
• November 22nd-27th, attended the TGA Winter 2012 to greet Chinese fans and play two show matches.
• December 2nd, 4th place in IGN ProLeague Season 5.

2013

• January 10th, Moscow Five releases League of Legends team.

Player Roster

Former

	ID	Name	Role	Next Team
	Alex Ich	Alex Ichetovkin	AP	Gambit Gaming
	Diamondprox	Daniel Reshetnikov	Jungle	Gambit Gaming
	Genja007	Eugene Andryushin	AD	Gambit Gaming
	GoSu Pepper	Edward Abgarian	Support	Gambit Gaming
	Darien	Eugene Mazaev	Top	Gambit Gaming

Organization

	ID	Name	Position
	ddd1ms	Dmitry Smelyi	Owner

Team Achievements

In Premier Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-12-02		A44th	IPL 5	0 : 2	TPA	$ 3,000
2012-10-10		A43 - 4th	Season 2 World Championship	1 : 2	TPA	$ 150,000
2012-08-19		A11st	Season Two Regional Finals	2 : 0	SK	$ 40,000
2012-07-29		A11st	European Challenger Circuit: Poland	2 : 0	CLG EU	$ 15,000
2012-06-18		A22nd	DreamHack Summer 2012	0 : 2	CLG EU	$ 10,000
2012-03-10		A11st	IEM VI - World Championship	2 : 0	dignitas	$ 50,000
2012-01-22		A11st	IEM VI - Kiev	2 : 1	TSM	$ 12,000

In Major Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-12-10	A11st	The Siege	2 : 0	Curse Gaming EU	€ 6,000
2012-11-11	A33rd	Tales of the Lane	2 : 0	SK Gaming	€ 5,000
2012-09-25	A33rd	ESL Major Series Season X	2 : 1	BLACK	€ 1,000
2012-07-17	A33rd	Elite of Europe	2 : 1	Team SoloMid	$ 1,000
2012-05-24	A22nd	ESL Major Series Season IX	0 : 2	x6tence	€ 1,500
2012-05-16	A22nd	Corsair Vengeance Cup	0 : 2	Counter Logic Gaming EU	$ 3,000

Complete results in Minor, Monthly and Weekly Tournaments

Highlight Videos

• Epic moment from IEM Kiev Qualifiers (M5 v SK)
• M5 vs Fnatic Baron Fight (IPL 5 Qualifier #2 Semi-Finals)
• League of Legends - M5 vs. EloHell - GA strategy, best tournament fight
• M5 vs. BLACK - Moscow5's never ending fight (ESL Major Series LoL)
• M5.LoL's First Anniversary by MCJ

See Also

• Teams

Links

• Moscow Five Preview: Season Two World Finals by ggChronicle

Interviews

• June 15th, 2012 - Pre DH Summer 2012 Bootcamp: M5.LoL отвечают на вопросы with Moscow Five & Translation
• June 18th, 2012 - DH Summer 2012: Интервью с M5.LoL with Moscow Five & Translation
• November 14th, 2012 - Interview with M5.BenQ after Tales of the Lane (video) with Moscow Five