The main esports event of the fall at Igor Sikorsky KPI! The finals of the Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 tournaments took place as part of the open esports tournament “KPI Rector's Cup 2025.”
📌 63 teams from various higher education institutions in Ukraine
📌 Finals in a new format with the 6 strongest teams
📌 Tournament prize fund — 18,000 hryvnia, partner products, and merchandise from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
The decisive matches took place in separate boot camp zones with powerful PCs and top-of-the-line peripherals — everything to make the players feel like they were in a real professional arena.
Counter Strike 2 5×5 tournament
Twenty-eight teams competed in the qualifying round, where two full-stack teams of the 10th level of Faceit — KPIGTG and KPI EVO — met in a Bo3 format.
🏆 KPIGTG team
• inpytl4g (Dmytro Lebidynskyi, Institute of IATУ), captain;
• heseynn (Maksym Tarasyuk, Institute of IAT);
• Makaroff777 (Makar Kulish, Institute of ISZZI);
• laughing (Bohdan Cherniak, Institute of IATE;
• sloweyes (Nazar Kurban, Institute of IEE).
LAN Final of the Dota 2 5×5 tournament
35 teams, level — from 5000 MMR to the top 500 in Europe. The final saw a clash of titans: NUP, ne Glechiki, and Blackout.
🏆 Team ne Glechiki
• Just_Bane (Dmytro Burlaka, FEA), captain;
• WhyHateMe (Maksym Kochenkov, FIOT);
• blessedtier (Bogdan Maslov, Institute of IMZ);
• miralis~ (Oleksandr Nikolaychuk, Institute of IPSA);
• t1eru (Maksym Cherytska, FPM);
• AivenGo (Artem Budzynskyi, NNS IPSA), substitute;
• Rasmus_= (Vitalii Hrynko, FAPIE), substitute.
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to our partners for supporting the competition, providing equipment and prizes: the CYBERION and Red Bull cyberclub networks.