Recently, the world's focus has been on Russia and Ukraine, and the military conflict between them has dominated the headlines of major media. Many Warcraft fans are concerned about Foggy's situation, here to explain to you: Foggy has moved to Minsk (the capital of Belarus), his family has also gone abroad, there will be no danger for the time being, but Foggy will suspend live broadcasting and uploading videos in the near future.
For this war, we will not talk in detail, you can go to the official channel to check the latest developments. Today, we're going to focus on the Warcraft players from Russia and Ukraine to see what stories have happened between them.
Who are the players in Owudu?
Russia, as the first power of Warcraft in Europe, in addition to the birth of big devils such as Happy, has also produced top players such as Deadman, Hawk, and Nicker.
Happy needless to say, although the first half of his career did not achieve too dazzling results, but through his own efforts, he became a "seat-level" player in the magic world in the past two years, including almost all online competitions in Europe and the champions of major competitions such as the Golden League and ESL, which was called the "last emperor" of Warcraft by water friends.
Deadman was one of the top players in Europe at the time, and the KODES5 2006 Lectra ToD won the T1 class, bringing his Warcraft career to the peak. However, the most impressive thing is the "open door" between him and Grubby, and the "live PK incident" with ToD.
Sadly, Deadman was murdered in 2009 at the age of 21.
XyLigan may not be very familiar to new viewers, but old audiences must have heard his name, as he won two consecutive WCG Awards in 2006 and 2007. Although it is largely based on group luck, being able to win the palace army and dominate Russia for a long time also means that it has a certain strength.
Nicker, a well-known Russian night player, has lived in China for a long time, has an excellent Chinese level, and has won good results such as WCG palace army and G League runner-up, of course, people are more familiar with the conflict between him and Infi.
Hawk, the representative of the european traditional human race, has a solid operation in the civil war, and has defeated S-class celebrities such as TH000 and Infi in the WCG World Finals, and won the WCG Palace Army twice.
Cash is also a familiar Russian orc player, but the overall performance of his career is average, the only highlight is that he beat Moon in the WCG World Finals.
In addition, Russia also has a daily APM of 1000 "god man", that is, Havoline, but although his APM is high, he has no good results.
After introducing Russia, let's look at Ukraine. Although Ukraine's overall strength is not as good as That of Germany, Russia and other european first-class warcraft powers, it can also be regarded as a wealth of talents.
The most familiar is Foggy, a harry-potter-like player who shined in the Golden League, winning two runners-up and two third places, making people re-recognize the power of European Warcraft.
Hot, the former elven king of Ukraine, is known as the "nerve knife" and has won several team championships with the SK team. Sadly, Hot himself died of illness in January 2022 at the age of 35.
Sonik, another night player, loves double BR female hunters, and the competition is mediocre, but the news is constantly on the sidelines. For example, FoCuS once suspected Sonik of opening an MH after the Zcup game, and Infi also accused Sonik of deliberately delaying things so that he was sentenced to abstain.
The Ukrainian Terran duo of Majestic and Kas are considered to be powerful players, but most of the time they can only travel in Ukraine and Europe, and their foreign war results are average.
A review of the history of the Russian-Ukrainian Warcraft
When it comes to the history of the warcraft confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, we have to start with the WCG, and when we talk about WCG, we have to mention the magical "WCG must enter the top four" law of Russian warcraft.
Since 2006, there have been Russian players in the final four of six consecutive WCG Warcraft Competitions, which also reflects the strong strength of Russian Warcraft to a certain extent. It is also behind this WCG competition that there is a fierce contest between The Monsters of Russia and Ukraine.
The first time was in the 2006 WCG Third Place Competition, don't underestimate the third place, the third place of the WCG can go on stage to participate in the award ceremony and get medals, so the participants are often full-fledged. In the end, Hot beat XyLigan 2-0 in that tournament to finish third and successfully reach the podium.
Two years later, Hot met again with the Russian player in the WCG third place battle, only this time the opponent was replaced by Happy, and the result was different from two years ago, Hot finally lost to Happy in the imperial army.
In 2010, the opponent who played Happy was replaced by Majestic, and this time it was still the Ukrainian player who lost, and Majestic finally stopped in the group stage.
The two sides are clearly more than just a WCG battleground, with ESWC in 2010 and Majestic being beaten by Happy in the round of 12 group stage. It seems that as early as 10 years ago, Happy was the nemesis of Ukrainian players.
In addition, the ASUS series of events held in Moscow is also one of the "main battlefields" of the two countries, which are offline competitions, and the prize money of each competition ranges from a few hundred knives to thousands of knives. Here is a sad place for Hot, in the face of a number of Russian players "beating", Hot is a feather every time, either lost to Deadman or lost to XyLigan, and on several occasions even eliminated by some unknown Russian players.
Here I also have to say that Russia, as a big country, has held many Warcraft events, and Ukrainian players are away from home and are often suppressed by Russian players.
It can be said that before 2010, the Ukrainian monster was almost supported by Hot alone, and it was inferior to Russia as a whole. This was even more true after 2010, when Sonik couldn't resist the Hawk, Cash, and Nicker trio, and European Warcraft watched almost all of Russia's performances. It wasn't until foggy came out that the pattern ended.
Foggy began to emerge from 2015, at first he was not Hawk's opponent, but after more than a year of online cup baptism, Foggy has become the leader of European warcraft, not only in Europe to win gold and silver, in the face of the top masters of China and South Korea, but also without falling behind. That period was the highest moment of The Ukrainian Warcraft.
Unfortunately, happy's return made Foggy completely fall off the throne, and since then, There have been games in which Happy has participated, and Foggy can only compete for second place. But whenever you open the page of the European competition, you will see that Happy is educating Foggy, so Foggy is afraid that he has won 100 fewer championships.
Looking at the record between them, Happy is 110 wins and 10 losses against Foggy, 88 wins and 3 losses against Sonik, how "inhumane".
While the 1v1 tournament was clearly not a match for russia' players, the Ukrainian Warcraft raised its eyebrows in the 2010 European Nations Cup. The Ukrainian team, composed of Majestic, Kas and Sonik, saved some face by winning 3-1 against the Russian team of Hawk and Nickel in the final.
Of course, the Russian and Ukrainian players are not only confrontations on the field, they themselves share the same language, compared with players from other countries, it is easier to become friends. For example, Foggy's master, Neytpoh, is a Russian player. After the end of ESL last year, Foggy, Hawk and Happy also got together to talk and laugh, and it seemed that the relationship was good.
For example, Deadman and Hot have also played for the SK team together, and because Deadman has a hot temper, Hot often acts as a peacemaker between him and his teammates.
I just don't know that after such international changes, the relationship between Russian and Ukrainian players can still be the same as before?