Saksa

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Saksa

Player Information

Name:

Мартин Саздов

Romanized Name:

Martin Sazdov

Birth:

June 12, 1995 (age 23)

Country:

Macedonia

Status:

Active

Team:

BlinkPool

Role(s):

Support

Signature Hero:

Approx. Total Earnings:

$851,468

Links

History

2014-04-21 — 2015-08-30

Global Challengers

2015-08-30 — 2016-01-02

4 Clover & Lepricon

2016-01-02 — 2016-02-??

Mamas Boys

2016-02-04 — 2017-04-14

Digital Chaos

2017-04-14 — 2017-05-31

Thunderbirds

2017-05-31 — 2017-08-01

Planet Odd

2017-07-28 — 2017-08-12

HellRaisers (Coach)

2017-08-29 — 2017-09-24

MidOrFeed

2017-11-28 — 2017-12-19

OpTic Gaming (Stand-in)

2018-01-05 — 2018-02-03

Team World

2018-02-03 — 2018-06-05

Echo International

2018-04-20 — 2018-05-06

compLexity (Stand-in)

2018-06-05 — 2018-06-12

Five Dogs

2018-06-12 — Present

BlinkPool

Martin "Saksa" Sazdov is a professional Dota 2 player who currently playing for BlinkPool.

Biography[edit]

DotA[edit]

Saksa played lots of video games in general growing up, tracing back to playing Starcraft at an age of 3. He started playing DotA when he was about 10 years old, playing on the Garena servers.^[1] Saksa's meaning behind his name was from his early years of playing DotA when he purchased a gold account membership for a month from Garena after realising his account got hacked. After finding the hacker, he was given another account with the name Saksa and has used that nickname to this day.^[1]

Dota 2[edit]

While studying at university, he decided to leave and focus on Dota 2 full-time after seeing his improvement in the game.^[1] Saksa's first team was with Global Challengers, an all-Macedonian team which he stayed a part of for over a year. He later joined Team Moriarty for a short period afterwards, winning GIGABYTE Challenge Cup #16. Around mid-2015, he began gaining notoriety for climbing the matchmaking rating leaderboards and eventually becoming one of the first players to hit 8000 MMR. Shortly after achieving this, he was invited to be a part of 4 Clover & Lepricon's new lineup as their support player. In January 2016, it was revealed that he joined Mamas Boys as a support with Pajkatt as captain. His growth of a player continued when despite not winning a game in the groupstage of Captains Draft 3.0, managed to place 4th place in the tournament. Later on, he joined Digital Chaos a few days before Valve's roster lock. After months of being with the team, he attended his first Valve event, The Manila Major finishing 9-12th place. During mid 2016, he further continued to growth as a player and team with 5-6th placements in Summit 5 and Starladder i-league Starseries Season 2. He qualified for the The International 2016 and despite being coined underdogs in the tournament, Saksa's run in the main event of his first international saw him finish runners-up to Wings Gaming. He is also the first Macedonian to participate in the LAN event of the International.

Trivia[edit]

He is currently the tallest player in the professional Dota 2 scene at a height of 6 ft 8 (2.03m).

Achievements[edit]

As Player
As Coach
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Date	Placement	LP Tier	Tournament	Results	Prize
2017-12-102017-12-10	A22nd	A2Major	ROG MASTERS 2017	2 : 3	$58,800
2017-07-222017-07-22	A22nd	A2Major	DreamLeague Season 7	2 : 3	$45,000
2017-06-182017-06-18	A22nd	A1Premier	Galaxy Battles	0 : 3	$22,500
2017-04-282017-04-28	A99 - 16th	A1Premier	The Kiev Major 2017	0 : 2	$62,500
2017-01-082017-01-08	A11st	A1Premier	ESL One Genting 2017	3 : 2	$125,000
2016-12-172016-12-17	A33 - 4th	A2Major	China Top 2016	0 : 2	$28,738
2016-12-102016-12-10	A33 - 4th	A1Premier	The Boston Major 2016	0 : 2	$250,000
2016-08-132016-08-13	A22nd	A1Premier	The International 2016	1 : 3	$3,427,126
2016-06-092016-06-09	A99 - 12th	A1Premier	The Manila Major 2016	1 : 2	$45,000
2015-12-062015-12-06	A22nd	A1Premier	Game Show Global eSports Cup Season 1	1 : 3	$65,000
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