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Happy (Russian player)

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[e][h]Terran Happy
Player Information
Name:
Dmitry Kostin
Nationality:
Born:
June 17, 1991 (age 32)
Race:
Alternate IDs:
Empire.Happy
Approx. Total Winnings:
$74,365
Years Active:
2010 - 2016
Links
History
2011-03-31 — 2014-10-13Team Empire
2016-06-08 — PresentRetirement
Retired:
2016-06-08
Recent Matches
Happy Terran Russia
1:3
(vs)
Taiwan Protoss Has
May 14, 2016 - 18:55 CEST  
Happy Terran Russia
2:0
(vs)
Switzerland Protoss FunK
April 22, 2016 - 21:45 CEST  
Happy Terran Russia
2:3
(vs)
Germany Protoss ShoWTimE
April 9, 2016 - 20:35 CEST  
Happy Terran Russia
3:2
(vs)
Poland Zerg Elazer
April 9, 2016 - 18:00 CEST  
Happy Terran Russia
3:2
(vs)
Denmark Terran Bunny
April 8, 2016 - 22:10 CEST  


Dmitry "Happy" Kostin (born June 17, 1991) is a retired Russian Terran player who last played for Team Empire.

Biography[edit]

Happy was the best Warcraft III player to come out of Russia, playing the Undead race, and was a member of several prestigious teams during his Warcraft III career, including Meet Your Makers, Mousesports, and Evil Geniuses. His most notable achievements include reaching the third place of BlizzCon 2007 and World Cyber Games 2008, and reaching the fourth place of World Cyber Games 2009 and of Electronic Sports World Cup 2010.[1] He celebrated his biggest success in 2019 after winning the Warcraft Gold League, defeating Moon in the final.[2]

Wings of Liberty[edit]

Happy left Evil Geniuses and really switched to StarCraft II at the beginning of 2011, playing as Terran. He then competed in weekly tournaments in order to get used to every kind of playstyles, and eventually won an online cup for the first time in March 2011 by overwhelming Fargo in final of Go4SC2 Cup #93. It was only the beginning of a winning streak in weekly online events, while Happy was improving and making a name for his strong micromanagement.

His first participation in a premier event occurred in June 2011, at DreamHack Summer 2011, where he was unable to reach the playoffs. In September 2011, Happy won the World Cyber Games 2011 Russia Qualifiers, therefore securing a spot in World Cyber Games 2011 in Busan.

Happy participated in DreamHack Winter 2011, where he advanced from the first group stage after beating Beastyqt and Ciara, losing only to NaNiwa. The next day in the second group stage, Happy beat SjoW, lost to White-Ra, putting him at 1-1 in his group. It was all down to his match against ToD to decide which one of them would proceed to the playoffs. The first game[3] turned out to be a 74 in-game minutes nuke-fest on Tal'Darim Altar, also featuring a 5-Starport Battlecruiser tech-switch, which Happy ultimately lost. ToD took the second game[4] as well, proceeding to the playoffs the following day and knocking Happy out of the tournament.

World Championship Series[edit]

From July 21 to July 22, 2012, Happy participated in the World Championship Series 2012 Russia and went far in the winners' bracket as he took out Strange, Turuk, Roll, and then TitaN to make it straight into the finals. He lost in the finals to TitaN by a score of 1-2, 0-2, and had to settle for 2nd place.

At the World Championship Series 2012 Europe Finals from September 15 to September 16, 2013, Happy lost in the first round of the Winner's Bracket to LucifroN, but still made a deep run in the Loser's Bracket. En route to the Round of 8, he defeated sLivko, TitaN, and Socke before falling to LoWeLy. He narrowly missed out on a seed to the 2012 Battle.net World Championship by losing in the 7th place match to Nerchio.

Heart of the Swarm[edit]

Happy qualified for WCS Europe 2013 Season 1 Premier League on the first day of the Premier League Qualifiers. He made an impressive run in Premier League, defeating HasuObs, Bly, VortiX and BabyKnight to reach the Round of 8. He was defeated there by DIMAGA and lost to TLO in the 5th place bracket, which left him without a seed to the WCS Season Final.

In WCS Europe 2013 Season 2 Premier League, he lost to TitaN but defeated ToD and SortOf to reach the Round of 16. Although he won a series against Tefel, he lost to MMA 0-4 in maps and fell to Challenger League. He defeated the French Terran Dayshi to requalify for Premier League.

In the third season of WCS Europe 2013, Happy defeated SaSe and the previous season's champion duckdeok to advance to the Round of 16 of Premier League.

Happy qualified for WCS Europe 2014 Season 1 Premier League by defeating ABomB. In his Ro32 group stage he was able to win against Bly, but lost 1-2 to BlinG and Korean StarDust.

He won against the German player Lambo with a score of 3-0 to make his comeback to WCS Europe 2014 Season 2 Premier League. Happy had one of the most severe groups in Ro32. He won against TLO 2-1, lost to current WCS Europe champion MC 1-2 and lost in decider to Golden 1-2.

On August, 01, Happy defeated Adonminus to start his WCS Europe 2014 Season 3 Premier League journey. In Ro32 he was able to make it through his group with MC, leaving Grubby and Serral behind . In Ro16 he defeated Harstem and Miniraser to make it to Ro8. WCS 2014 Season 3 was the worst season for European players, only Happy and Bunny were able to make it to Ro8, the rest being Koreans. Happy lost to Golden with a score of 1-3 finishing on 5-8th place and getting $5000 USD prize money.

On October 13, 2014, Happy left Team Empire with no particular plans for the immediate future.[5]

Happy participated in 5 European qualifier before he could make it to 2015 WCS Season 1 Challenger. He lost to Verdi in qual-1, to Starbuck in final match of qual-2, to NaNiwa in final match of qual-3, to MaNa in final match in qual-4 and finally made it in qual-5 over Theo, Strelok, Adonminus and Boombox in finals.

In order to participate in Premier League Happy had to play a best-of-5 series against Majestic wining 3-2. Happy made his 7th in a row appearance in WCS Premier League showing himself as a very stable player.

Trivia[edit]

Achievements[edit]

DatePlaceTierTournamentTeamResultPrize
2016-04-094thMajor2016 WCS Spring Regional Challengers: Europe2016 WCS Spring Regional Challengers: Europe2 : 3$800
2016-03-181stMon. (Min.)GoodGame Beaver League #43 : 1$294
2016-02-141stMajor2016 WCS Winter Regional Challengers: Europe2016 WCS Winter Regional Challengers: Europe3 : 0$1,400
2015-12-262ndMinorGG Goda 2015GG Goda 20153 : 4$425
2015-06-091stMon. (Min.)Go4SC2 May 20153 : 1$338.47
2015-04-122ndMajorFragbite Masters Season 4Fragbite Masters Season 40 : 4$2,831.21
2014-12-271stMinorGG Goda 2014GG Goda 20144 : 1$293.03
2014-12-064thMajorFragbite Masters Season 3Fragbite Masters Season 31 : 3$2,030
2014-08-292ndMinorZOTAC Season 2 Final 2014
Team EmpireTeam Empire
0 : 3$937
2014-04-192ndMajorCopenhagen Games 2014Copenhagen Games 2014
Team EmpireTeam Empire
0 : 4$2,071.80
2014-01-192ndMajorNationWars by O'Gaming TVNationWars by O'Gaming TV
Team RussiaTeam Russia
1 : 4
Team NorwayTeam Norway
$500
2013-11-121stMinorEIZO StarCraft II Cup
Team EmpireTeam Empire
3 : 0$670.45
2013-07-071stMon. (Min.)EnerJ Cup Series 2013 June
Team EmpireTeam Empire
3 : 0$250
2013-06-302ndMinorBattle of Four
Team EmpireTeam Empire
1 : 3$456.82
2013-06-131stMinorRaidCall EMS Spring 2013RaidCall EMS Spring 2013
Team EmpireTeam Empire
2 : 1
mousesportsmousesports
$625
2013-05-191stMon. (Min.)EnerJ Cup Series 2013 May
Team EmpireTeam Empire
3 : 0$250
2013-05-071stMinorRazer Russia vs Ukraine
Team RussiaTeam Russia
5 : 2
Team UkraineTeam Ukraine
$333.33
2013-04-211stMon. (Min.)EnerJ Cup Series 2013 April
Team EmpireTeam Empire
3 : 2$250
2013-03-231stMinorTechlabs Cup Moscow 2013
Team EmpireTeam Empire
2 : 0$1,500
2012-12-154thMajorEvil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VIIIEvil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VIII
Team EmpireTeam Empire
0 : 3
Team AcerTeam Acer
-
2012-12-091stMinor300 Actions per Minute
Team EmpireTeam Empire
2 : 1$1,298
2012-10-241stMinorincredible Panic Team League Season 4
Team EmpireTeam Empire
6 : 4
RoXRoX
$260
2012-09-301stMon. (Min.)300 Actions per Minute: September
Team EmpireTeam Empire
2 : 0$385
2012-07-222ndMinor2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals
Team EmpireTeam Empire
1 : 4$3,000
2012-04-054thMajorCopenhagen Games StarCraft 2 ChallengeCopenhagen Games StarCraft 2 Challenge
Team EmpireTeam Empire
2 : 4$654.75
2012-03-312ndMinorICSA.TV Opening Cup
Team EmpireTeam Empire
1 : 4$1,200
2011-11-131stMinorGosuCoaching Premiere League Season 2
Team EmpireTeam Empire
3 : 2
Evil GeniusesEvil Geniuses
$700
2011-09-222ndMajorEvil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VIEvil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VI
Team EmpireTeam Empire
1 : 3
mousesportsmousesports
$750
2011-05-292ndMinorASUS Cup Spring 2011
Team EmpireTeam Empire
0 : 2$891.88
2011-05-061stMon. (Min.)Go4SC2 April 2011
Team EmpireTeam Empire
3 : 2$716.13
Extended list of results

Gallery[edit]

Interviews[edit]

2013[edit]

2011[edit]

Matches & VODs[edit]

First Person View Match VODS[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Matchup Statistics

vs Protossvs Terranvs Zergvs RandomTotal
RecordWin%RecordWin%RecordWin%RecordWin%RecordWin%
as Terran364 - 21063.4 %190 - 13458.6 %390 - 26359.7 %2 - 0100 %946 - 60760.9 %
Σ364 - 21063.4 %190 - 13458.6 %390 - 26359.7 %2 - 0100 %946 - 60760.9 %

Earnings Statistics

1v1 Medal Statistics

TierTotal
Major120036
Minor161261136
Basic9681200116
Total113221814158

References[edit]