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seized

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Player Information
Name:
Денис Валерьевич Костин
Romanized Name:
Denis Valerevich Kostin
Birth:
September 9, 1994 (1994-09-09) (age 25)
Nationality:
Russia Russia
Status:
Active
Years Active (Player):
2009 – Present
Team:
Cyber Legacy
Approx. Total Winnings:
$336,936
Links
History
20??-??-?? – 2012-10-08
2012-10-08 – 2012-??-??
2012-08-21 – 2013-01-18
2013-01-18 – 2013-03-12
2013-07-06 – 2013-08-11
2013-08-20 – 2017-07-28
2017-07-28 – 2017-08-09
Natus Vincere (Inactive)
2017-08-09 – 2017-10-17
2017-10-17 – 2018-01-14
Natus Vincere (Inactive)
2017-11-06 – 2018-01-14
2018-02-06 – 2018-05-26
2018-05-26 – 2018-11-01
Gambit Esports (Inactive)
2018-10-17 – 2019-01-05
2019-01-05 – 2019-03-19
2019-04-01 – 2019-08-13
2019-08-13 – 2019-09-04
Vega Squadron (Inactive)
2020-01-20 – 2020-02-??
2020-02-?? – 2020-04-03
2020-05-20 – Present

Denis "seized" Kostin (born September 9, 1994), is a professional Russian Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player and former Counter-Strike 1.6 player who currently plays for Cyber Legacy as an in-game leader.

Information[edit]

Professional career[edit]

Denis' first teams formed back during the Counter-Strike 1.6 days, playing for fbgaming, USSR, and place2play. He, as well as Anton "kibaken" Kolesnikov, had been an active participant in Moscow's eSports community. seized and the USSR team reached the MSiBeatit! Russian quarterfinals in 2011 and won Tech labs Cup Ukraine with place2play. In his last LAN tournament of CS 1.6, ASUS Final Battle of the year, Denis and his 12.12.12 reached the semifinals.

In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, when Na'Vi was looking to fill their two vacant places, seized's candidature was considered, as he had often substituted for a missing player on the team. He played in online leagues as a replacement for Yegor "markeloff" Markelov. Although he was a lurker, his skills were well-rounded, occasionally fulfilling the role of a secondary AWPer.

In late 2017, Natus Vincere acquired Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko and Mykhailo "kane" Blagin from Gambit Esports following a series of poor results, while seized returned to active duty after being briefly benched. Although the change was planned to fix their lack of leadership, results were still poor and seized requested to leave the team. In November of 2017, Denis "electronic" Sharipov left FlipSid3 Tactics to join Na'Vi, and seized went the opposite way on loan.

In February, 2018, seized joined Gambit Esports on trial. [1] After a series of unsuccessful performances, seized was benched and put on the transfer list. His place in the team was taken by Nikolay "mir" Bityukov [2].

In late 2018, he joined CIS team UnderPressure, which was formed by hooch, starix, and seized.

Gear and Settings[edit]

Mouse Settings [3] (list of)
Advanced
MouseeDPIDPIPolling RateSensitivityZoomRaw Input
ZOWIE GEAR
EC2-A		1240400500 Hz3.10.8On
Last updated on 2019-03-06 (445 days ago).
Mouse Settings [3] (list of) (calculate)
Simple
MouseCurvatureCircumferenceMouse SetupSensitivityZoomRaw.
ZOWIE GEAR
EC2-A		1637 MPI
1.074 deg/mm		13.2 in/rev
33.5 cm/rev		400 DPI
@ 500 Hz		3.10.8On
Last updated on 2019-03-06 (445 days ago).
Hardware [3]
Mouse Mousepad
ZOWIE GEAR EC2-A ZOWIE by BenQ G-SR DG
Monitor Refresh rate In-game resolution Scaling
ZOWIE by BenQ XL2546 240 Hz 1280×960 Black Bars
Keyboard Headset
HyperX Alloy FPS HyperX Cloud Alpha
Last updated on 2019-03-06 (445 days ago).
Crosshair Settings [3] (list of)
Style Size Thickness Sniper Gap Outline Dot Color Alpha
4 2 1 1 -2 No No (0) Green (1) 250
Last updated on 2019-03-06 (445 days ago).
Click "Expand" for a code to copy and paste into your console.
cl_crosshairalpha 250; cl_crosshaircolor 1; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -2; cl_crosshairsize 2; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairusealpha 1; cl_crosshairthickness 1; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1; cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0;

Career Achievements[edit]

  • As Player
  • As Talent
  • Show All
Date Placement Tier Type Tournament Team Result Prize
2018-03-18 A33rd A1S-Tier Offline World Electronic Sports Games 2017 2 : 0 $150,000
2016-10-02 A11st A1S-Tier Offline ESL One: New York 2016 2 : 1 $125,000
2016-04-17 A22nd A1S-Tier Offline DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 0 : 2 $50,000
2016-04-03 A22nd A1S-Tier Offline MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016 0 : 2 $150,000
2016-03-18 A11st A2A-Tier Offline Counter Pit League Season 2 - Finals 2 : 1 $40,000
2016-01-24 A11st A1S-Tier Offline DreamHack Open Leipzig 2016 2 : 0 $50,000
2015-12-13 A22nd A1S-Tier Offline ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 - Finals 2 : 3 $60,000
2015-11-22 A11st A1S-Tier Offline Intel Extreme Masters X - San Jose 2 : 0 $56,250
2015-11-01 A22nd A1S-Tier Offline DreamHack Open Cluj⁠-⁠Napoca 2015 0 : 2 $50,000
2015-07-12 A11st A1S-Tier Offline Electronic Sports World Cup 2015 2 : 1 $30,000
About achievementsComplete Results in any Tournament
Date Tier Tournament Position Partner List
2020-05-17 A2A-Tier ESL One ESL One: Road to Rio - CIS Analyst
2020-02-16 A1S-Tier BLAST Premier BLAST Premier: Spring 2020 Regular Season Commentator & Analyst
2019-12-15 A2A-Tier cs_summit 5 Commentator & Analyst
2019-11-18 A1S-Tier ESL Pro League ESL Pro League Season 10 - Europe Commentator & Analyst
2019-10-06 A1S-Tier DreamHack Masters DreamHack Masters Malmö 2019 Analyst None
2019-09-20 A3B-Tier GG.Bet Beijing Invitational Analyst
2019-09-14 A2A-Tier BLAST Pro Series BLAST Pro Series: Moscow 2019 Analyst
2019-08-07 A3B-Tier GG.Bet New York Invitational Analyst
2018-11-11 A1S-Tier Intel Extreme Masters Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Chicago Commentator & Analyst
2017-10-29 A1S-Tier EPICENTER EPICENTER 2017 Analyst
About achievementsBroadcasts from any Tournament

Media[edit]

Highlights[edit]

Interviews[edit]

2019[edit]

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2017[edit]

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Gallery[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "seized joins Gambit CS:GO". Gambit Esports. 2018-02-06.
  2. ↑ "seized покидает Gambit Esports " [seized is leaving Gambit Esports] (in Russia Russian). Gambit Esports. 2018-05-26.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 seized twitch stream


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