Hobby World Ladies - CS: GO Female Team

The history of the team started in September 2009, when the two top teams from CSI who had years of experience on pro-level decided to make one top team and joined the Mousesports multigaming organization. One month later the team won their first gold medal in “Pan-European Tournament” in Poland. During the next two years the girls were the leaders in CSI and the European female Counter-Strike. First places in “Arbalet Female Cup Qualification” and “ESWC Female Russian Qualification 2010” and many gold medals from ASUS Female Cups can be identified separately. In the finals of the biggest events the girls placed third in “Arbalet Female Cup” and fourth in “ESWC France 2010.”

Popularity of female Counter-Strike took a considerable dive starting with the beginning of 2011 and the team was forced to play minor male and female LAN and on-line cups.

Girls left Mousesports and joined the biggest Russian multigaming organization Virtus.pro in August 2011. It was the last year of the Counter-Strike 1.6 era, and there were very few female tournamets. But despite this, the girls played in five female on-line cups and leagues and took gold four times and silver once. In addition, Virtus.pro Female won “ICSA Female Showmatch” in Moscow and “girlZ LAN Summer” in Kiev which gathered all the top teams from CSI. It was the last gold medal for the team in CS 1.6. With the release of CS:GO the girls fully switched to the new game and started to practice it.

After the transition to the new version of CS, the clan faced some start-up problems as, although the 1.6 version offered a large number of promising Russians, there was almost no one after it. Thus, the captain decided to "internationalize" the composition.

Line-up:
Polina «Exilia» Paraka (captain)
Alyona «parti» Volkova
Ksenia «vilga» Klyuenkova
Anita «aNi» Lok
Marie «Chelxie» Gomez
Alla «t A T u» Kurysheva

Progress:

1st place Pan-European Tournament, Poland, October`09
1st place EMS V: Female Qualification Cup Russia
2nd place ASUS Autumn Female 2009
1st place Female Про-серия cyberarena.tv
1st place ASUS Winter Female 2010
1st place Female Qualif Russia Female League Europe
2nd place Fnatic Female Cup
1st place Arbalet Female Cup Qualification
3rd place Arbalet Female Cup
1st place ASUS Spring Female 2010
1st place ESWC Russian Qualification 2010
4th place ESWC France 2010
3rd-4th place DreamHack Winter 2010
2nd place ESL Female League Europe 2010-2011
1st place Virtus League I
1st place ICSA female showmatch
2nd place Virtus League II
1st place ESL Female Spring Cup 2012
1st place Imbarena Female Cup 2012 #1
1st place Team ALTERNATE Female Cup
1st place girlZ LAN Summer Kiev, Ukraine

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