With the addition of Artour, as well as zai, Team Secret was now seen as an all-star caliber team and was lauded as the best team in the world. On January 6th, 2015, it was announced that Arteezy had joined Team Secret and he would now be playing the hard carry role. Artour and EG ended up going home with a 3rd place finish and $1,038,416 USD. The final game of the series was a decisive loss for EG, causing many people to question Arteezy's decision to pick up a late Hand of Midas. In the lower bracket finals EG would face off against Vici Gaming. In the main event EG would beat Team DK but fall to Newbee in the upper bracket. At TI4 Evil Geniuses had a strong performance in the group stage placing second with an 11-4 record. With top 3 finishes at three of the four major LANs prior to TI4, including a first place finish at The Summit 1 over team DK, EG was one of the favorites to win the biggest tournament of the year. On April 29th Arteezy and his EG teammates were directly invited to compete in The International 2014. With this victory the team quickly began to establish their reputation as one of the best teams in the world, due in no small part to Artour's dominant play in the middle lane on heroes such as Dragon Knight, Naga Siren, and Razor. On March 7th 2014 the new EG made their LAN debut at the Monster Energy Invitational, where they won 3-2 against Cloud9 in the finals. This would mark the first time that Arteezy would fully commit to a team for the long term. On February 21st, 2014, Arteezy and company were announced to be the new Evil Geniuses Dota 2 squad. The team won sixteen out of their first eighteen matches, including winning the Electronic Sports Prime/Shock Therapy Cup while going undefeated. On January 31st, 2014, Arteezy, along with legendary North American Dota players UNiVeRsE and Fear, as well as former HoN players ppd and zai created S A D B O Y S, which had immediate success. This victory at the first LAN event Artour ever attended garnered a great deal of attention, including 7ckngMad's infamous comments on Artour's skill. Arteezy handily defeated several elite mid-laners, including Mushi and Dendi, en route to an underdog victory for Speed Gaming over Team DK in the finals. On NovemArteezy had the opportunity to stand in for bOne7 and play for his previous team Speed Gaming (formerly Kaipi) at MLG Columbus. Shortly after, Take Five disbanded and Arteezy would again be inactive. In September 2013, Artour joined Take Five, a casual team of ringers, in order to participate in RaidCall EMS ONE Fall Americas, which the team would go on to win. However, after just four months Arteezy left the team and went inactive in order to once again focus on his studies. In April 2013, Arteezy finally committed to a team and joined Kaipi for the summer, along with ComeWithMe. Dota 2 ĭue to his young age and commitment to his studies, Arteezy had postponed any plans to play Dota 2 professionally. Arteezy played Protoss, and reached Masters before he started playing Dota 2. Before playing Dota 2 professionally he played the original DotA as well as Starcraft II. Artour was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan but resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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