Overview
| Retired | |
|---|---|
| groove | |
 | |
| Background Information | |
| Name | Konstantin Pikiner (Константин Пикинер) |
| Country of Birth | Russia |
| Birthday | March 2, 1983 (age 41) |
| Residency | CIS |
| Competitive | |
| Role | Owner |
Konstantin "groove" Pikiner (Cyrillic: Константин Пикинер) is a retired League of Legends esports personality, previously chief executive officer for Gambit Esports.
Team History
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Moscow Five | Dec 20112011-12-16[3] | Jan 20132013-01-10[1] | 1yr 25d ejel | ||
 Gambit Gaming | Jan 20132013-01-13[5] | Dec 20152015-12-09[4] | 2yr 10mo ejel | ||
 Gambit Esports | Jan 20162016-01-12[6] | ≈Mar 2022≈2022-03-?? | ≈6yr 1mo ejel |
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow Five | Dec 20112011-12-16[3] | Jan 20132013-01-10[1] | 1yr 25d ejel | ||
| Gambit Gaming | Jan 20132013-01-13[5] | Dec 20152015-12-09[4] | 2yr 10mo ejel | ||
| Gambit Esports | Jan 20162016-01-12[6] | Mar 20172017-03-01[7] | 1yr 1mo ejel | ||
| Gambit Esports | Mar 20172017-03-01[7] | Jun 20172017-06-05[8] | 3mo 4d ejel | ||
| Gambit Esports | Jun 20172017-06-05[8] | ≈Mar 2022≈2022-03-?? | ≈4yr 8mo ejel |
News
2011
 M5 | December 16, Darien, Diamondprox, Alex Ich, Genja, GoSu Pepper, and groove (Manager) join.[3] |
2013
| M5 | January 10, Moscow Five is disbanded. Darien, Diamondprox, Alex Ich, Genja, GoSu Pepper, and groove (Manager) leave.[1][2] | |
 GMB | January 13, Gambit Gaming acquires the former Moscow Five roster. Darien, Diamondprox, Alex Ich, Genja, GoSu Pepper, and groove (General Manager) join.[5] |
2015
| GMB | December 9, Team disbands. Betsy, ImSoFresh, Genja, Moopz, P1noy, Shaunz (Head Coach), and groove (General Manager) leave.[4] |
2016
 GMB | January 12, Team is announced. BloodFenix, FatoNN, Fomko, LeX, Archie, and groove (Chief Executive Officer) join.[6] |
2017
| GMB | March 1, Archie rejoins. groove (Chief Executive Officer to Chief Executive Officer/Head Coach) changes position. Xavieles and MegaLASH (Head Coach) leave.[7] | |
| GMB | June 5, PvPStejos, Kira, Blasting, Edward, Invi (Head Coach), and Tunes (Manager) join. groove (Chief Executive Officer/Head Coach to Chief Executive Officer) changes position.[8] |
2022
| GMB | March (approx.), groove (Chief Executive Officer) leaves. |
Biography[]
Konstantin "groove" Pikiner first stepped in eSports as a professional player of the game Counter-Strike for teams emax and Virtus.pro. His influence spread out beyond that as he became the leader of a Russian eSports magazine while partaking in managerial duties for Virtus.pro. In 2009, he coached the Counter-Strike squad of k23, a primarily Kazakh team.
Upon taking a break from eSports in 2010, he returned to lead Moscow 5 then Gambit Gaming as their manager-coach.
Trivia[]
- During the 10 years groove has spent in eSports, he has accumulated experience in the following roles: Player, manager, coach, CEO, event organizer and editor-in-chief. Here is a list of the teams he was in and the roles he occupied in each of them:
- emax: Team Captain of the Counter-Strike squad (player)
- Virtus.pro: Team Captain of the Counter-Strike squad (player), manager, coach and CEO[9]
- Cybersport (printed eSports magazine): Editor-in-chief
- rekrut.ru (eSports magazine): Editor-in-chief
- k23: Manager and coach.[10]
- Arbalet Cup: Event organizer
- Moscow Five: CEO of all multi-gaming, editor-in-chief for the website, coach of both Counter-Strike rosters (male and female) and manager of the League of Legends team
- Gambit Gaming: Manager and coach of the League of Legends team
- groove was a consultant for the movies Na Igre[11] (Russian: На игре) and "Na Igre 2". He even made an appearance in the first movie.
Tournament Results[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
| Groove Tournament Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Pl | Event | Last Result | Team | Roster |
2013[]
- March 29 - Five Minutes with Groove with Leaguepedia
2014[]
- December 9 - "We are still one of the strongest teams in Europe": an interview with Konstantin "groove" Pikiner of Gambit Gaming with ESL
Media[]
- 2013
- June 20, Interview with Gambit groove at LCS EU DreamHack (EN subs) with Gambit Gaming on YouTube
- June 21, LCS Moscow 2013: interview with Gambit-Groove (eng subs by sandr1x) with LoLGameRu on YouTube
Images[]
Redirects
The following pages redirect here:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 LoL roster leaves Moscow Five moscowfive.ru
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Состав по LoL покидает организацию Moscow Five (Russian) moscowfive.ru
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Объявлен состав M5.LoL (Russian) moscowfive.ru
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Vitality acquiert un spot LCS team-vitality.fr
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gambit Gaming: New Home For Alex Ich & Co. in2lol.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Welcome Gambit CIS LoL gambit.gg
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Viacheslav "Archie" Egorov returns to Gambit gambit.gg
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gambit LoL roster for LCL Summer 2017 gambit.gg
- ↑ History - Team Virtus.pro's website
- ↑ Interview with ArenaZero.net
- ↑ Na Igre - imdb.com