Kiev Cybersport Arena

Kiev Cybersport Arena is a major asset to the whole e-sport community. This is one of the most important venues when it comes to hosting the biggest e-sport competitions. In this article, Valentyn Kyrylenko, Director of Business Development and Sales of BetInvest, one the industry leading providers of technology solutions, explains why Kiev Cybersport Arena plays such an important role.

Kiev Cybersport Arena was opened on January 17, 2010. It situated in Kiev, Ukraine. For the moment of opening it was the largest computer club in Europe and one of the largest in the world. The overall area of Kiev Cybersport Arena is 1 500 square meters. Over 200 computers were placed there as well as stage for Lan tournaments was constructed on which 10 computers were placed: five on every side, behind it was large screen for broadcasting and in front were comfortable sofas for watching of the games.

At the day of opening of Kiev Cybersport Arena, the tournament Arbalet Arena Female Cup was held. It’s not difficult to understand from the name of the tournament that female teams took part in the championship. To be more precise, it was CIS qualifications and the team named “Mousesports” achieved a victory beating “EYEsports” team with the score of 16:4. Bronze went to RoX.KIS and the fourth place went to inGame.  These teams gained the opportunity to participate at the final tournament.

Since 9 till 11 of April 2010 exhibition tournament Arbalet Cup Best of Four with the prize pool 22,500$ was held at Kiev Cybersport Arena.  Such teams as Natus Vincere, SK Gaming, Fnatic, UNiTED took part at the tournament. All teams played on cycle scheme bo5. The status of strongest team was gained by Na`Vi team.