Biography
Victor “GeneRaL” Nigrini is a professional Dota 2 player of Ukrainian descent. GeneRaL started his career in 2015 and since then he has joined many CIS teams, which shows a high level of play. We draw your attention to GeneRaL’s path as an esports player.
Beginning of the career
Like most esports players, GeneRaL started his journey in the competitive scene long before he entered the professional organization. From a young age, he loved computer games, especially competitive games. Victor was particularly good at Dota 2, which later became a real profession for the gamer and allowed him to build a career.
Duza Gaming became the first official club for GeneRaL. GeneRaL played with him in StarLadder ProSeries – Season 1 and also won the FirstGameTV Dota 2 Cup. After two months with Duza Gaming, GeneRaL joined the squad of sQreen. With this team Victor finished second in MSI Dragon Battle #6 and MSI Dragon Battle #6 and finished 5th to 8th in ProDota Cup. GeneRaL did not stay with this team for long.
In August 2015 GeneRaL joined Teamless, but left the team just two weeks later. GeneRaL’s next club was the ScaryFaceZ team. The player stayed there a little less than a month and in October 2015 he moved to Walrus Punch, which he also left a month later. Later the player played for Team Empire and in November he moved to Elements Pro Gaming.
For EPG, GeneRaL played in D2CL Christmas Charity Magic, The Defense – Season 5, ProDotA Cup Europe No. 1, BTS Europe No. 1 and also finished 2nd in the MDL 2015 Winter – European Qualifiers and 5th-10th in the Shanghai Major 2016 Europe Qualifiers. Although GeneRaL did not have any notable results in these championships, he came to the attention of Natus Vincere.
Natus Vincere and first successes
GeneRaL joined NaVi in February 2016. In March, the team finished 4th in Dota Pit League – Season 4 and a month later finished 2nd in StarLadder i-League Invitational – Season 1.
In June 2016, GeneRaL participated in the first major tournament for itself – Manila Major 2016, where NaVi showed a pretty good result, finishing in 7th-8th place. In June 2016, ESL One Frankfurt 2016 was held, where NaVi finished 2nd, and in July NaVi finally won the championship in StarLadder i-League StarSeries – Season 2. The team managed to reach The International 2016, but in the championship the team finished 13th and 16th, leaving the tournament in the first round of the lower tier.
It wasn’t until the end of 2017 that the team was able to partially move on from defeat. Then NaVi won the Adrenaline Cyber League. In December 2017, they finished 4th in DreamLeague – Season 8. The following results could hardly be called successful, and in September 2018, GeneRaL was no longer part of NaVi
Find yourself, FlyToMoon, and return to NaVi.
In September 2018, GeneRaL played on the team of former NaVi member Lil. However, the player stayed there only a little more than three weeks, after which he went to Fly To Moon.
GeneRaL became an FTM player in February 2020. In March, the team won the second Parimatch League – Season and finished second in the third Parimatch League round Robin, the third Parimatch League – Season , in June and July.
In September 2020, the team won the OMEGA League: Europe Divine Division and then successfully qualified for the OGA Dota PIT S3: Europe/CIS.
In September of the same year, GeneRaL returned to NaVi. The first result after returning to NaVi was the 4th place at OGA Dota PIT S3: Europe/CIS.
During his career GeneRaL has earned over $216,000 in prize money.
Dota 2
Dota 2 is – unlike other big MOBA titles like League of Legends – free to play with all heroes. However, game items can be purchased in the Dota 2 store, but all of them have no effect on the gameplay. Only cosmetic items like different skins for the heroes can be purchased. Just like in Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Portal 2, it is possible to create your own content via the Steam Workshop.
Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena title from Valve. The successor to the extremely popular Warcraft 3 modification DotA (Defense of the Ancients), Dota 2 was the company’s first strategy game and was released on the download platform Steam on July 9, 2013. The game is a free-to-play title that can be played completely free of charge and is financed through in-game micro-transactions, similar to Team Fortress 2.