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FC Dynamo Kyiv present the start of eFootball vector

22.12.2016, 17:33

We’re glad to inform that we start forming FC Dynamo Kyiv eFootball team and one of the most titled and talented players in Ukraine – Vitaliy ‘labotryas’ Mukha – will perform for it.

Vitaliy is the champion of Ukraine (2016) and runner-up (2015), winner of 12 out of 15 “live” (LAN) FIFA16 tournaments in 2016, threefold Kyiv Cup holder, and participant of 2016 World Cup in Paris. Today Vitaliy’s main discipline is FIFA17.

In 2017 eFootball fans will follow exciting program of Vitaliy’s performances at leading world tournaments, friendly competitions against teams of European football clubs etc.

Our club also ponders creation of teams in other eSports disciplines (Dota 2, LoL, CS:GO etc.). Still eFootball will always be the priority. It will be the instrument of project objectives achievement:

Support of talented Ukrainian eSportsmen and teams, creation of conditions for their progress and performances on international level.
Creation of professional tournaments system and eSports infrastructure in Ukraine.
Audience accumulation, attraction of eSports players to traditional football and vice versa.

It should be mentioned that Dynamo eSports project is the first one (and the only one so far) of the kind among Ukrainian clubs

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FC Dynamo Kyiv eSports project

Focal person: Ivan Bulavka; @: [email protected] Web: fcdynamo.kiev.ua App: fcdkapp.com
Hashtag in social networks: eFCDK
Project is a part of development program of the club in digital environment and is being carried out in concert with experts and participants of European market
The team of specialists with following experience runs the project:

- management of team and performance at tournaments as participants (PRIES)

- arrangement of 40+ LAN and online tournaments including FIFA16 (ESWC UKRAINE 2016)

- management of e-commerce projects, online media and F2P gaming projects

Other project of development program of the club in digital environment:

- FC Dynamo Kyiv mobile application (available for iOs and Android): fcdkapp.com

- Online store of the club (12th place among European clubs in 2016): shop-fcdk.com

- Live broadcastings of games and exclusive video materials: youtube.com/fcdk and video.fcdynamo.kiev.ua

Vitaliy ‘labotryas’ Mukha

Personal data

Age: 26 (15.10.1990)

Citizenship: Ukraine

Place of living: Kyiv

Achievements:

ESWC Ukraine 2015 – 2^nd place

ESWC Ukraine 2016 – 1^st place

KYIV Open Cup (threefold winner)

Vitaliy took part in 15 LAN tournaments in Kyiv within a year.

He won 12 of them, finished second twice and third once

(Around bar, Level-up, BSL, Game inn)

Career

Vitaliy Mukha is a young promising FIFA player, who lives in Kyiv. He’s been fond of football since childhood. Vitaliy is also a player of football team in amateur league. He started playing eFootball with PES, but in 2011 changed it for FIFA. Vitaliy played FIFA just for fun till 2014. Only in 2014 he was invited to online tournament and played for cash prize.

His first competition was quite a success: 2^nd place. After that he started treating the game seriously.

His first significant LAN tournament was ESWC Ukraine, where Vitaliy reached the final, but lost 2:1. In 2016 he took part in ESWC Ukraine again and eventually became the winner.

Some publications about Vitaliy

http://www.eswc.com/en/news/eswc-fifa-17-format-and-groups-draw

https://www.toornament.com/tournaments/57e0ffe9140ba083458b55d1/stages/2/

https://vk.com/cyberfootball_ukraine?w=page-99579763_50925029

http://rox.team/rus/news/shownews/tiko91-zanimaet-5-6-mesto-na-eswc-ukrainy

https://vk.com/around?w=wall-104758528_6655

https://vk.com/around?w=wall-104758528_6223

http://fifagc.ru/content/vazhno/6151-V-Copa-Ametica-2016-s-komandoj-Chili-pobedil-Labotryas.html

http://fifagc.ru/competitions/competition.php?id=1320

https://vk.com/cyberfootball_kiev?w=wall-99651541_738

eSports

eSports – video games competitions (PC or game console)
Computer games tournaments have all formal peculiar features of “traditional” sports. Players must be really skillful.
eSports has been officially proclaimed kind of sports in 22 countries (including France, Italy, Finland, Denmark, China, Korea, Russia, UAE etc.).
eSports world audience in 2016 includes 214 million viewers while the size of this market is $900 million.
In 2 years to come this market is expected to grow by 30-40%
eSports hasn’t officially become sports in Ukraine yet.
Many Ukrainian sportsmen have to perform for foreign clubs because of lack of professional teams in our country.
The most famous Ukrainian eSports teams are NaVi (about 1,5 million subscribers on Facebook), Darer, DST Gaming.

Football clubs and eSports

In 2016 many European football clubs started eSports projects (PSG, Valencia, Ajax, ManchesterCity, Schalke 04, Spartak Moscow etc.).
The main eSports discipline for football clubs is FIFA17 though some teams have teams in other games (CS:GO, LoL, Hearthstone, WOT).
Football clubs form national eFootball leagues in Germany, Spain and some other countries.
Football club post eSports news every week. On December 17 FC Nantes announced that they signed 2^nd FIFA player.

Some resources and articles about eSports:

http://gameinside.ua/

http://fcsu.com.ua/

http://www.cgames.in.ua/

http://www.cybersport.ru/

http://gameinside.ua/

https://starladder.com/ru

http://www.cgames.in.ua/

https://www.championat.com/

https://cyber.sports.ru/

http://cyberfootball.ru

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