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Red Rush: Unity has won the second Ural Steel competition for free-to-play tank battler World of Tanks, beating The Red Z 3-0 to take home the $35,000 grand prize.
The long-running final saw the two Russian teams opt for heavily defensive strategies, leaving Moscow’s 5000-seat CKSA sports hall in a state of silent contemplation. It was a big change in atmosphere in a final that started ahead of schedule thanks to Virtus.Pro Aces’ complete annihilation of the German team Odem Mortis in the third-place play off.
The highlight of day, however, came in a tense semi-final match between Virtus.Pro Aces and Red Rush: Unity, which went to five games after the former team came back fighting after two losses. Under the tournament’s rules, a draw would have resulted in both teams being eliminated from the competition.
16 teams competed in the one-day single elimination tournament held in Moscow’s CKSA sports hall. While three of the four Russian teams in the competition took all of the $77,000 prize pool, the event also featured four teams each from the USA, Europe and Asia.
Each team fielded seven players in best-of-five matches played over the Ensk, Himmelsdorf, Ruinberg, Steppes, Prokhorovka and Lakeville maps.
World of Tanks developer Wargaming also pledged they would continue to support eSports during the tournament, including the creation of their own league.
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World of Tanks
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, Massively Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online, Shooter
