StarLadder

esports multifunctional KUMI KEKM, founded in February 2012. Tournament disciplines are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Point Blank, Dota 2, League Of Legends, Tanki Online (currently cooperation is suspended), World of Tanks.

The platform was founded with the support of Intel, Asus ROG, INNOVA, Wargaming.net, Twitch.tv. Organized in the form of a ladder (which is reflected in the name). There are 4 seasons a year, which, like football, have divisions and are divided into a group stage and playoffs. Between them there are 2-3 week off-seasons.

On the website of the site, everyone has the opportunity to register a team and try their hand at the ladder. Such a team will have to go through all divisions: Amateur, Semi-Pro, Pro. Having overcome the latter, the team will move to the Starseries, where its players will be able to compete with the professional teams invited to the tournament.

Organizational staff

Roman CaspeRRR Lepekhin is the lead commentator for Dota 2.

Taufik Khidry is the league's lead manager and commentator for Counter-Strike and World of Tanks.

Divisions

Color coding has been introduced to define divisions: Star Series (StarSeries) - red, professional series (ProSeries) - blue, seven series (SemiSeries) - green, and AmateurSeries - gray.

Contests for fans

In season 7, StarLadder held an online contest for fans, where they presented valuable prizes. Three competitions in each discipline: "Guess the champion", "Online FUN BET" and "Best question for analysts"; allow you to win in-game inventory DOTA 2, Point Blank.

Audience

Online broadcasts gather a lot of viewers. Broadcast hosts are the best commentators in the world in this field and language. For example, in the Dota 2 discipline, Toby Dawson has been leading the English stream for many years now; Russian - Vitaly Volochay.

In the online broadcast of the fifth season, more than 1.8 million unique viewers were recorded.

The total number of unique visitors to online broadcasts was more than 1,400,000 people.