Michael Bignet

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Michael Bignet (born June 13, 1987 ) is a French e-athlete known by his nickname winz . In his career he played or played successfully Overwatch , Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 4 .

Career

Unreal Tournament 2004

Winz played over 5 years III Arena Quake before settling in 2004 ventured to Unreal Tournament 2004 and could almost set perfectly first time on the game. The first successes were achieved quickly; In March 2005, he took first place in the inGame Unreal Cup # 4, which is made up of top players . On June 5, 2005, he won the French Unreal Tournament 2004 qualifying for the Electronic Sports World Cup and thus secured his ticket for the main event, which took place from July 6 to 10, 2005 in Paris .

ESWC 2005

At the ESWC 2005, winz survived the first group stages despite a loss to the Italian Michele 'DevilMC' Esposito . The other players in his group were Zoltan 'Varagh' Szatay and Aaron 'Lotus' Everitt .

The French dominated the second group stage and won all three games without a single map loss - despite a very strong group with Markus 'Falcon' Holzer , Martin 'kiLLu' Reimann and Andre 'povi' Krupka .

In the semifinals he met DevilMC again, against whom he had his only defeat so far. After three hard-fought maps, winz finally emerged victorious from the match and then met his clan comrade Falcon again in the final, who defeated the Dutchman Laurens 'lauke' Pluijmaekers 2-1 in the second semi-final . The final between the two aAa players was tough but short and winz was the winner after playing two maps.

Quake 4

ESWC 2006

Winz switched from Unreal Tournament 2004 to Quake 4 after the ESWC 2005 and won the French Quake 4 ESWC qualification on May 29, 2006.

Bignet defeated the Belarusian Alexei "Cypher" Januschewski in the final of the main tournament and was able to win another ESWC final after 2005.

ESWC 2007

A year later he again took part in the Quake 4 ESWC Grand Final and dominated the first group stage. He won all 5 games without losing a map. In the second group stage he was also able to prevail, but lost a game against the Polish participant Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski .

In the semifinals he then met the Russian Anton 'Cooller' Singow , who gave him no chance and was able to defeat tiny after two maps. In the game for 3rd place he then met the Swede Mikael 'Purri' Tarvainen . Winz defeated Purri 2-1 and finished third in the tournament.

Overwatch

Among other things, Winz played with his brother Dylan "aKm" Bignet for the Overwatch team of the e-sports organization Rogue, which was successful over several video games until the team was disbanded on October 8, 2017. The last time his team played together at Overwatch World Cup 2017 and reached fourth place there.

successes

  • 1st - ESWC 2005 - $ 6,000 (UT 2004)
  • 1st - ESWC 2006 - $ 13,000 (Q4)
  • 3rd - ESWC 2007 - $ 3,000 (Q4)
  • 1st - 2016 ESL Overwatch Atlantic Showdown - Gamescom - $ 40,000
  • 1. - APAC Premier 2016 - $ 75,000
  • 1. - Alienware Monthly Melee: March - $ 6,000
  • 1. - Overwatch PIT Championship - North America Season 1 - $ 6,750
  • 1. - Alienware Monthly Melee: April - $ 6,000
  • 1. - Overwatch Rumble: April - $ 6,000
  • 1. - Overwatch TaKeOver 2 - $ 25,000
  • 4th - Overwatch World Cup 2017 - $ 9,000

Clans

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.esworldcup.com/2006/?act=document_info&id_document=123 ( Memento from November 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) ESWC 2006 French Final Results
personal data
SURNAME Bignet, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES tiny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French e-athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1987