Syed Sumail Hassan, a 16 year old from Karachi, who made a name for himself by earning 1.2 million dollars by winning Dota 2 Asian Championship, has now won the DOTA 2 International Championship with his team Evil Geniuses to secure a winning prize of US 6.6 million or 66 crore rupees in total.
Evil Geniuses, a team of five including Sumail, won the title yesterday at Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. Three other players from his team are from US while one player is from Canada.
Finale of All Star Match at Key Arena in Seattle, Washington, USA
Team Evil Geniuses (Sumail on most left) After winning the Dota 2 International Championship
In Dota 2, two teams of five ‘Heroes’ challenge each other in a battle to take over the other team’s base. The ultimate goal is to acquire the opposing team’s Ancient while preventing it from getting yours.
While its goal may be simple, the game’s complexity comes from its range of unique characters, weapons, and spells. The game has 110 heroes with most having 4 or more abilities. In addition, the itemization in the game means it can take hundreds of hours to even know what each hero or item does.
As an e-sport, Dota 2 offers the opportunity to earn more real-world money than any other game of its kind. Top performers are given the chance to take part in professional tournaments, where teams battle it out for millions of dollars in prize money.
Sumail, who has won himself various titles before, including Asian Championship back in February this year, reached the ultimate peak of becoming international champion of Dota 2.
The 16-year-old moved to Chicago, USA, along with his family back in 2014, which served as a great opportunity for him, as it allowed him to play Dota 2 on a faster internet connection with less latency and lower pings than he had previously experienced.
#respect for his parents not telling him computer gaming is a waste of time.
How do you know? Kahin uske rishtedar wishtedar tou nhi???
seems you never faced any restriction from Desi parents on E-Gaming….
Lol … bhai jaan har din galiyan parti hein :P
Lekin shayad hota ho k wo b hmari tarha ka ziddi ho…. , you never know ;)
lakin dakhlay wo aik 16 ka ziddi ho k millionaire hogya…. ur bc man 22 ka ho bhi abu say pasay mangta hun
Kismat apni apni ;)
Kher, uska ye paisa wese b haram he kyunke wo paisa humara nhi he :P
#JustPakistanThings
he should be ranked in forbes as youngest Millionaire
Awesome thought!
He is already featured http://onforb.es/1KZ66ug
koi GTA vice city ka competition hua to batana.
Amir bhai ne b GTA V kheli hy :v
isi liye Trevor jise harkateen krty ho Show pr?
I’m in..! It’s my IP 127.0.0.1:2506..!! Chaly Khalain VC online :P
The record prize pool and first place award means each of the members of the team get $1.32M, making each of them instant millionaires (depending on taxes, I suppose). That’s an incredible journey for all of them, but particularly 16 year-old Sumail who once sold his bike growing up in Pakistan to be able to fund more Dota 2 playtime.
I use to play dota a lot almost all day.. and i can imagine how hard it is to achieve upto this level it’s not just a game.. its not just sitting on computer and moving your fingers.. This game needs a brilliant mind and Alhamdulillah we as Pakistanis has millions of hidden gems, hope they come out like this and shine every day.
I never played any game except FIFA 13-14 for like a month, after 2001. :P
You should play GTA Vice City :P
Did play it once!
Now your should play dota :)
Nops! I don’t like gaming. Programming is better :P
you can use my services to bring money to pakistan & save taxes
Ab Bhi Kye Ksr Rehti Hai Pak Badnaam Karni Ki, Baji?
well… I must say, at this early age your baji is well experienced than the whole big bankers group sitting in nations heart.
FYI: He changed his country to USA. :( No more pakistani LOL
Sab yahi karte hain. Mein aur ap bhe yahi karain gay jab USA mein hon gay aur wahan k nationals ko jo perks milte hain government se usko dekh k :)
There are still alot of players from small countries but they haven’t changed :)
WOW..!! Love U Brother!! Keep It Up..!!! I’m going to download Dota 2 :P
An amazing guy.
ab saray pakistani apnay bachoon ko DOTA 2 khelnay pe laga dain gay :-P
khelo gay koodu gay bano gay nawaab :-P
exactly. Our herd mentatlity is guaranteed.
aja agli dafa hum bhi chaltay han.
Theek he. 25 august ki tickets book krwa lete hein ?
pasay sumail say mang letay han…… @Justpakistanithings :p
LOL theek he :P
#sawarilabaynalabayspeedeiksonabay :P
Aui kicked from EG, RTZ in.
our media is all the time breaking news of Bollywood stars birthdays and they don’t give a damn about Pakistan’s accomplishment… all they time they are highlighting bad thing taking place in every nukar of pak … y don’t they appreciate things like this?? y no media channel report this big news…. almost every foreign news had highlighted that 16 year old Pakistan kid become millionaire n look at our media….. this media had to be stopped n we people should wake up n discover our abilities despite of getting trapped into media’s plan n plus our enemies plan to destroy our pak
Felicitations PAKISTAN & SUMAIL.. You’re pride.. (y)