Computer games have long ceased to be simple entertainment for children, which are not taken seriously. For quite a long time, e-sports has become more and more famous, so more and more people are paying attention to it. With the growth of this type of competition, new youth heroes appear and develop along with their discipline. At the moment, you can find many examples of professional players who began their journey in 2007-2008, and are now known throughout the world for participating in tournaments with large prize pools and performing on stage.
One of these characters is Clement Ivanov (nickname Puppey). He has gone all the way from DotA to Dota 2 and continues to play on the professional stage ever since. Puppey is very loved in the CIS, is considered one of the best captains in the whole world, and stadiums greet him more than other players from the squad.
Biography
Let's move a little away from professional merit and talk about who Clement is in ordinary life.
The future champion was born in 1990 in Estonia. From childhood, Ivanov strove to become a musician and create his own band. At the moment, the player has not yet realized his desire, but already unites various groups of people around him, albeit in a completely different field. Perhaps, after the completion of the player’s career, Clement will do the music.
However, not only the game is the main activity of the guy. As you know, Puppey has its own recording studio, which can be judged from various interviews.
Excellent knowledge of two languages (Russian and English) was to a large extent one of the reasons why the player became the best captain in the CIS, and then began to consistently occupy high places in tournaments with English-speaking teams (and constantly changing rosters).
But the very beginning of Clement's “Puppey” Ivanov’s playing career began in 2007.
DotA Achievements
At a time when DotA was just a modification to the popular Warcraft 3 strategy, eSports did not develop on such a scale. Even then, Clement tried his hand at the professional stage, where the XsK team called him, seeing the player’s abilities and talent in public (ordinary games in which anyone can participate).
The first major Puppey tournament was called EuroCup XVI, but our hero’s team was not successful at it. And he received the first title (albeit third place) as part of the ESL Major Series tournament.
During DotA, Clement Ivanov played for many teams, but it was at Ks.Int that he met KuroKy, with whom he later spent most of his career in two teams. The guys became real friends and even being in different booths on the stage, do not forget to hug after the match, regardless of the result.
By 2011, Valve announced the release of Dota 2, and with it a tournament with a million dollars in prize money. Professional organizations and players could not ignore this fact, therefore, after receiving the keys for the closed version of the game, they began to train. It was at this time that Puppey was under the wing of the Ukrainian organization Natus Vincere.
Era of Na'Vi
This period of the biography of Clement Ivanov is the longest in his entire career. Together with the CIS team, the player takes first place at The International 2011 and wins one million dollars. It could be said that the reason was a raw and unfinished game, as well as a small amount of time for training for other teams (Na'Vi received the keys for Dota 2 before the rest of the players). But in later seasons the team led by Puppey proved the opposite.
After leaving the leader of the ArtStyle team, the captain slot takes Puppey and takes everything into their own hands. Under his leadership, the team takes dozens of first, second and third places in all kinds of tournaments, and the main achievements after winning TI 2011 are two second places in a row at TI 2012 and TI 2013.
Team secret
After Natus Vincere began to decline, the organization decided to say goodbye to Clement. The player leaves the team with his friend KuroKy and organizes a new team called Team Secret, which he still plays in. It is curious that it is Puppey who is the permanent leader of this team, while all other positions have long since changed several times.
During the playing activity, Klement Ivanov proved that he can win both with eminent players (as evidence - the composition with Arteezy, EnternalEnvy and w33), and collect newcomers (Yapzor, Ace, Nisha and so on). After a relatively successful performance at The International 2018, Clement changes his line-up, calls for a young Nisha and an experienced zai. Also in the team are MidOne and Yapzor. It is in this composition that Ivanov plans to win tournaments of the season 2018-2019.
Due to a long career and mixed decisions, Puppey can be treated differently. But his actions, the choice of heroes, strategies and the ability to organize a team of diverse players, this character earned the title of one of the best captains in the history of the computer game Dota 2.