Overview
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| Name | Konstantin Pikiner (Константин Пикинер) | ||||||
| Country of Birth | Russia | ||||||
| Birthday | March 2, 1983 (age 41) | ||||||
| Residency | CIS | ||||||
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| Team |  Gambit Esports | ||||||
| Role | Owner | ||||||
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Konstantin "groove" Pikiner is the CEO for Gambit Esports.
Biography[]
Konstantin "groove" Pikiner first stepped in eSports as a professional player of the game Counter-Strike for teams emax and Virtus.pro. His influence spread out beyond that as he became the leader of a Russian eSports magazine while partaking in managerial duties for Virtus.pro. In 2009, he coached the Counter-Strike squad of k23, a primarily Kazakh team.
Upon taking a break from eSports in 2010, he returned to lead Moscow 5 then Gambit Gaming as their manager-coach.
Trivia[]
- During the 10 years groove has spent in eSports, he has accumulated experience in the following roles: Player, manager, coach, CEO, event organizer and editor-in-chief. Here is a list of the teams he was in and the roles he occupied in each of them:
- emax: Team Captain of the Counter-Strike squad (player)
- Virtus.pro: Team Captain of the Counter-Strike squad (player), manager, coach and CEO[9]
- Cybersport (printed eSports magazine): Editor-in-chief
- rekrut.ru (eSports magazine): Editor-in-chief
- k23: Manager and coach.[10]
- Arbalet Cup: Event organizer
- Moscow Five: CEO of all multi-gaming, editor-in-chief for the website, coach of both Counter-Strike rosters (male and female) and manager of the League of Legends team
- Gambit Gaming: Manager and coach of the League of Legends team
- groove was a consultant for the movies Na Igre[11] (Russian: На игре) and "Na Igre 2". He even made an appearance in the first movie.
Tournament Results[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
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2013[]
- March 29 - Five Minutes with Groove with Leaguepedia
2014[]
- December 9 - "We are still one of the strongest teams in Europe": an interview with Konstantin "groove" Pikiner of Gambit Gaming with ESL
Redirects
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 LoL roster leaves Moscow Five moscowfive.ru
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Состав по LoL покидает организацию Moscow Five (Russian) moscowfive.ru
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Объявлен состав M5.LoL (Russian) moscowfive.ru
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Vitality acquiert un spot LCS team-vitality.fr
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gambit Gaming: New Home For Alex Ich & Co. in2lol.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Welcome Gambit CIS LoL gambit.gg
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Viacheslav "Archie" Egorov returns to Gambit gambit.gg
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gambit LoL roster for LCL Summer 2017 gambit.gg
- ↑ History - Team Virtus.pro's website
- ↑ Interview with ArenaZero.net
- ↑ Na Igre - imdb.com