Virtus.pro

Kappa Yandex Eats Virtus.pro (VP) is an international esports organization founded in 2003 in Russia and acquired by Armenian investors in 2022.

[2] The organization has players competing in such games as Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Warface and EFT: Arena.

[3] VP's 2022 CS:GO team, with CIS players, won the IEM Rio Major 2022 under the name Outsiders.

In March 2022 Virtus.pro created a new tag, Outsiders, due to the requirements of tournament operators and their claims to VP's parent company (VK) ties with the Russian government.

The new CEO claimed that he "contacted ESL [CS:GO tournament operator] to discuss the matter of performing under the name Virtus.pro" and "provided all supporting documents and are now awaiting a decision.

[7] On 25 January 2014, Virtus.pro signed the five member roster of AGAiN, Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski, Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski, Paweł "byali" Bieliński, and Golden Five players Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas, Filip "Neo" Kubski.

[18] Due to poor results and grown unhappy with the team, Paweł "byali" Bieliński decided to leave Virtus.pro.

[20] Virtus.pro decided to test some players out, benching Michał "Okoliciouz" Głowaty that had a short lived place in the VP squad, replaced by a stand in Tomasz "phr" Wójcik.

[25] The roster competed under the name Outsiders from early March 2022, following several tournament organizers banning esports teams suspected to have ties to the Russian government.

[26] Under the Outsiders tag the team won IEM Rio Major 2022, beating Heroic in the final.

On 14 April 2024, Virtus.pro announced the signing of previous Natus Vincere and Cloud9 player Denis "electroNic" Sharipov.

[30] In November 2016, the team won The Summit 6 LAN event, sweeping OG 3–0 in a best-of-five series.

[citation needed] In July 2020, Virtus.pro, the Russian cybersporting organization, ranked among the top 3 in Europe and the CIS in terms of prize money, percentage of wins and tournament placements during the quarantine period.

[37] On 3 May 2023, the Virtus.pro cybersports organization announced that Sergey "G" Bragin has returned to the club as a Dota 2 lineup coach.

[42] The squad dominated in Europe and secured several high placing in top-tier international events, including top-3 at PGC 2021.

In January 2025, VP signed a popular YouTube content creator and a former competitive player Anton "klenoff" Klenov as a coach.

[49] Virtus.pro launched a division in simracing in May of 2024 by signing a team of pilots to compete in ESL R1, the official sim racing league of Rennsport.

[50] This acquisition may have been funded thanks to the Esports World Cup Foundation Club Support Program, of which VP is a member.

On 19 July 2018, Virtus.pro opened a division of Fortnite, the first players in the new discipline were Arthur "7ssk7" Kurshin and Jamal "Jamside" Saydayev.

On 1 July 2014, Virtus.pro announced that they closed the StarCraft II section of their organization and that they would now focus on League of Legends instead.

In May of 2024 VP have returned to this title, signing the highest ranked American athlete Maxwell "Astrea" Angel,[56] who left the team in September.

Soon the team disbands, but in November 2016 Virtus.pro re-opened its LoL division and acquired the LCL Spot of Vaevictis Syndicate.

On 23 November 2018, Artem "DrHippi" Kravets, who previously defended the colors of Virtus.pro in Hearthstone, and Olzhas "Naiman" Batyrbekov joined the team.