Alyaksey Januscheuski

Alyaksey Januscheuski
Player information
Full name	Alyaksey Januscheuski
Nickname	Cypher
Date of birth	June 1, 1990
place of birth	Belarus
country code
game	Quake
Former teams	RAW gaming, fnatic , serious gaming

Aljaksej "Cypher" Januscheuski ( Belarusian Аляксей Янушэўскі , Russian Алексей Янушевский / Alexei Januschewski; born June 1, 1990 ) is a Belarusian e-athlete in the quake discipline . During his career, Cypher has won more than $ 100,000 in prize money.

Career

In 2006, the then only 16-year-old first became known to a wide audience. At his first international Quake 4 championship, the Electronic Sports World Cup , he finished second behind Michael “winz” Bignet . He then signed a contract with RAW-Gaming, which was later bought by fnatic . On July 12, 2008, he moved to Serious Gaming , where he was under contract until April 2012. He achieved other successes, for example first place at ESWC 2008, QuakeCon 2010 and DreamHack Winter 2011.

In June 2012 he was part of a new ShootMania team at the French organization Millenium . However, he switched back to Quake a short time later and celebrated further successes there, such as winning the QuakeCon 2012 and DreamHack Winter 2013.

Since June 2016 he switched to the Blizzard team shooter Overwatch . Together with Cooller, who is also known from Quake, he is active for ANOX.

Teams

• fnatic (August 2006 - July 2008)
• Serious Gaming (July 2008 - April 2012)
• Millenium (June 2012 - mid-end 2012)
• Titan eSports (2013-2014)
• ANOX (2016–)

Successes (excerpt)

• Electronic Sports World Cup 2006: 2nd place
• QuakeCon 2008: 1st place
• Electronic Sports World Cup 2008: 1st place
• IEM Season IV 2009/10 - European Championship: 1st place
• IEM Season IV 2009/10 - World Championship: 4th place
• QuakeCon 2010: 1st place
• DreamHack Winter 2010: 1st place
• DreamHack Summer 2011: 1st place
• DreamHack Winter 2011: 1st place
• DreamHack Summer 2012: 2nd place
• QuakeCon 2012: 1st place
• DreamHack Winter 2013: 1st place
• QuakeCon 2014: 1st place

Web links

• Aljaksej Januscheuski in the Electronic Sports League

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexei "Cypher" Yanushevsky esportsearnings.com
2. ↑ cadred.org: ESWC 2006: winz wins Quake 4 ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ mymym.com, fnatic gets hold of Cypher  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ sk-gaming.com, Cypher goes to Serious Gaming
5. ↑ greatfrag.com, Cypher left Serious Gaming
6. ↑ shootmaniaesports.com: Strenx, Av3k and Cypher to represent Millenium ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ANOX Overwatch. In: new.vk.com. Retrieved July 24, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Turtle Entertainment GmbH: ANOX Overwatch - Team - Overwatch (PC) 6on6 Launch Cup Europe | ESL Play. In: play.eslgaming.com. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .