SEATTLE: Sumail Hassan, from Karachi made history once again on Saturday when he helped his team, Evil Geniuses, win the Dota 2 International 2015 tournament in Seattle, according to foreign media sources.
Sumail, 16, who moved from Pakistan to Illinois chasing his dreams of being a professional gamer and is most known for playing a powerful electricity-based champion for the team, said after winning the tournament, “It just meant everything to me.”
By the end of Saturday’s finals in Seattle, five players, including the 16-year-old, became more than a million dollars richer, reportedly.
On Saturday, fans, handfuls of whom roamed the arena dressed as their favorite in-game heroes, roared as the team “Evil Geniuses” secured the championship, wiping out their enemies with an earth-shaking smash and a devastating blast of frost.
Teams of video gamers playing characters ranging from wizards to monsters exchanged virtual punches, fireballs and lightning strikes over the past six days, battling at the main event of the Dota 2 International 2015 tournament in Seattle, sources further added.