Kuro Salehi Takhasomi

Kuro Salehi Takhasomi
Player information
Full name	Kuro Salehi Takhasomi
Nickname	KuroKy
Date of birth	October 28, 1992
country code	Germany
game	Dota 2
position	Support
team	Team nigma
Former teams	Natus Vincere , Mousesports , Team Secret , 5Jungz , Team Liquid

Kuro "KuroKy" Salehi Takhasomi (born October 28, 1992 ) is a professional, Iranian-born German Dota 2 player who has been the captain of Team Liquid's Dota 2 team since 2015 . In 2017, he and this team won the Dota 2 championship tournament The International 2017 , which was the highest endowed esports tournament in the world to date . With more than 5 million US dollars in prize money, he is the financially most successful German e-athlete and is in 6th place worldwide.

Career

KuroKy played his first esports tournament when he was 16 years old. He made his first appearance in Dota 2 with the team "Gosugamers.net" at The International 2011 during the presentation of the game at Gamescom in Cologne , but was eliminated in the group stage. KuroKy, now playing as a substitute for Mousesports , could not improve his result at The International 2012 either. After the tournament he joined Mousesports as a regular player, but it was not until he switched to Na'Vi on February 28, 2013, the winners of The International 2011, that KuroKy was able to achieve greater success. With Na'vi 2013 - who were finalists for the third time in a row - he was second in The International 2013, beaten only by the Swedish team Alliance . After a shared seventh place at The International 2014 , KuroKy left Na'Vi on August 18, 2014. A short time later, the change to the newly founded Team Secret became known. With Team Secret he took part in The International 2015 and reached the shared seventh and eighth place. In August 2015 KuroKy switched to 5Jungz , where he played with Lasse "MATUMBAMAN" Urpalainen , among others . The team was signed by Team Liquid in October 2015 . With Team Liquid, KuroKy finished second at the beginning of March at the Shanghai Major, a premier tournament hosted by Dota 2 developer Valve . In 2017, as the captain of Team Liquid, he won the e-sports tournament The International 2017, which had been worth over 24 million US dollars .

In November 2019, he and his teammates founded the new organization Team Nigma .

See also

• List of the most successful e-athletes by prize money

Web links

• KuroKy in Liquipedia (English)
• Player profile at joindota.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} joinDOTA. In: joinota.com. Retrieved October 6, 2015 . 
2. ↑ esportsearnings.com - Tournaments. In: esportsearnings.com. Retrieved September 2, 2018 . 
3. ↑ esportsearnings.com - players. In: esportsearnings.com. Retrieved September 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Tournament series ESL One: "Mr. Tobi Wan Kenobi, why is eSport so fascinating?" In: Second German Television (second video with the title Public Viewing for Game Fans ) ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Four teams fail. In: Dota2. Official Blog. August 18, 2011, accessed September 28, 2014 . 
6. ↑ René Lannt, mousesports.com: New temporary lineup for Dota 2 (English) ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ René Lanned, mousesports.com: KuroKy traded to NaVi, mouz looking for 5th (English) ( Memento from October 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Changes in Na`Vi.Dota 2. In: navi-gaming.com. August 18, 2014, accessed September 28, 2014 . 
9. ↑ lights: Liquid place second at the Shanhai Major. In: teamliquidpro.com. March 7, 2016, accessed March 18, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Marissa Payne: These five gamers just won $ 11 million playing 'Dota 2'. The Washington Post, accessed August 14, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Transfer chaos of the superstars MoAuba, KuroKy and coldzera - ESPORTS. December 25, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 (German).