9pasha

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9pasha

Player Information

Name:

Павел Хвастунов

Romanized Name:

Pavel Khvastunov

Birth:

June 30, 1992 (age 27)

Country:

Russia

Status:

Active

Team:

Natus Vincere

Alternate IDs:

9Pasha, 9pashaebashu

Role(s):

Offlaner
Carry

Signature Hero:

Approx. Total Earnings:

$1,711,957

Links

History

2013-01-?? — 2014-11-??

UrsaStroitHram

2014-11-?? — 2014-11-24

BUHLO-UroPb

2014-11-24 — 2016-03-22

Vega Squadron

2016-03-25 — 2016-06-05

Polarity

2016-07-29 — 2016-08-04

Fantastic Five

2016-08-04 — 2019-09-05

Virtus.pro

2019-09-05 — Present

Natus Vincere

Pavel "9pasha" (pronounced japɑːʃɑː) Khvastunov, commonly referred to as "Pasha", is a professional Russian Dota 2 player who is currently playing for Natus Vincere.

Biography[edit]

Dota 2[edit]

Pasha has been playing most of his career in the Offlane position, however, he had a long tenure of playing the Carry role, which started when Mag~, a renowned offlane player, joined Vega Squadron in Spring of 2015. Pasha kept playing the number 1 position through all his time with Vega, and later kept this role in Polarity. However, when he joined Fantastic Five in their efforts to make it through The International 2016 qualifiers, Pasha switched back to offlane.

When Solo was tasked with drafting new Virtus.Pro squad after TI6, he decided to pickup Pasha as offlaner of the new team. With Virtus.pro, he was able win eight LAN tournaments, five of which were Valve Majors, and played over 600 matches. However, his results at The International have been disappointing, with two 5-6th place finishes and one 9-12th place finish. After over three years with Virtus.pro, 9Pasha was removed from the team in September 2019,^[1] following The International 2019. For the coming season, he will be playing for Natus Vincere.

Trivia[edit]

His old nickname "9pashaebashu" (pronounced "yapasha-yebashu") contains a Russian argot word, meaning "I am wrecking" (but in a somewhat rude manner).^[2]
Pasha's Twitter and Twitch accounts use a picture of Phoenix as an avatar - Pasha is an avid Phoenix player and used to play it a lot on the Offlane position in the beginning of his career.
When asked in an interview before The International 2015 Wildcard qualifiers how he would like to spend his hypothetical winnings, Pasha said that he would like to buy his own PC, since the one he had at home was broken and he was forced to play most of his games from an Internet Cafe. Unfortunately for him, he made no money from his Seattle trip, but later finally bought a new PC with his share of ESL One New York 2015 prize.
Pasha was the person who "walked fans through" Vega's new gaming house in February 2016. He was kicked from the team shortly after.
He is married. ^[3]

Achievements[edit]

Date	Place	Tier	Tournament		Team	Result	Prize
2018-11-18	AA1st	A0Premier	The Kuala Lumpur Major	The Kuala Lumpur Major	Virtus.pro	3 : 2	$350,000
2018-08-23	EA5 - 6th	A0Premier	The International 2018	The International 2018	Virtus.pro	0 : 2	$1,148,950
2018-05-27	AA1st	A0Premier	ESL One Birmingham 2018	ESL One Birmingham 2018	Virtus.pro	3 : 0	$500,000
2018-03-18	AA1st	A0Premier	World Electronic Sports Games 2017	World Electronic Sports Games 2017	Russia	2 : 1	$800,000
2018-03-11	AA1st	A0Premier	The Bucharest Major	The Bucharest Major	Virtus.pro	3 : 0	$500,000
2018-02-25	AA1st	A0Premier	ESL One Katowice 2018	ESL One Katowice 2018	Virtus.pro	3 : 1	$400,000
2017-10-29	AA1st	A0Premier	ESL One Hamburg 2017	ESL One Hamburg 2017	Virtus.pro	2 : 0	$500,000
2017-08-10	EA5 - 6th	A0Premier	The International 2017	The International 2017	Virtus.pro	1 : 2	$1,110,960
2017-04-30	BA2nd	A0Premier	The Kiev Major 2017	The Kiev Major 2017	Virtus.pro	2 : 3	$500,000
2015-10-04	AA1st	A0Premier	ESL One New York 2015	ESL One New York 2015	Vega Squadron	2 : 1	$114,649
Complete list of results in any tournament