Biography
Alexander “Immersion” Khmelevsky is one of the most promising representatives of the CIS region in the position of soft support. In a short time, Immersion managed to play for almost all TOP teams in the CIS. Introducing immersion journey as an esports player.
Career start
Immersion began its journey to entry into the TIR-1 phase long before entry into the professional organization. From early childhood, Alexander was fond of computer games and devoted a lot of time to them. It is not surprising that later they became the real work for him.
The first club Immersion played for was CoM18Anji. The player was only there for a month. In May 2018 he switched to the Slozhniy Memas Mix with which he won the 2018 Russian Esports Championship. After playing for Slozhniy Memas for a few months, the player moved to ESPADA.
With the ESPADA organization, Immersion did well in qualifying for The International 2018, but stopped a step before making it to the main tournament of the year. Later, Immersion and the team competed in all sorts of other qualifiers, but couldn’t succeed anywhere. The team participated in several TIR-3 tournaments, but failed to win any of them.
Immersion was no longer part of the team as of November 2018. He went inactive, after which he became a Gambit Esports player in December 2018.
Gambit Esports and first success
After becoming a Gambit player in December 2018, the player improved his skills significantly. Already in January 2019 he and his team won WePlay! Dota 2 Winter Madness and finished second at The Bucharest Minor in the same month. In February 2019, he and his team became the champions of WePlay! Dota 2 Valentine Madness. In the same month, Immersion with Gambit took 2nd place at ESL One Katowice 2019 and 5th-8th place. place on WePlay! Dota 2 Tug of War: Radiant.
In March 2019, the team stops in the 2nd tier of StarLadder ImbaTV Dota 2 Minor – Season 1. After playing several more TIR 2/3 tournaments, the team wins the EPICENTER Major 2019 qualifier.
In the championship itself, Immersion and the team are missing a win to go straight to TI9. The team stops at 7th and 8th place. This crippled Gambit’s fortunes and they finished 5th in the TI9 qualifier. This was the final immersion championship with Gambit.
In September 2019, Immersion will become a Positive Guys player. After only playing for the team for a month, he moves to Team Spirit.
He joined Team Spirit Immersion in October 2019. The player stayed there until June 2020. The best results for TS were 5th-6th. place on WePlay! Bukovel Minor 2020 and 4th place in Epic Prime League – Season 1. In June 2020, Immersion becomes a player of Natus Vincere.
Natus Vincere and personal awards
Immersion has joined NaVi amid the coronavirus pandemic. With the team he managed to participate in OGA Dota PIT S2: Europe Cis, where he took 5-6 places. During his career, the player has earned over $98,000 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.