Player IllidanSTR from from Team Cake Dota 2 | ID: 14632

Ilya Illidan Pivtsaev is a Russian cybersports player, one of the oldest active players.

He started his pro career in 2012 with Virtus.pro. At that time his teammates were Crazy, KSi, Smile and NS. The team performed at the highest level: they won The Defense Season 3 and took 2nd place at ASUS Open 2012 Finals, The Premier League Season 3 and Corsair Gaming Summer Tournament 2013, for which they received an invitation to The International 2013. At the tournament, she finished 13-16 and did not earn any prize money.

After another less successful season in Virtus.pro and another elimination from The International 2014 (18-19th place) Illidan left VP and moved to the NVMI pack, where Scandal, DkPhobos, Lil and Goblak played together with Ilya, took 1st place at Game Show League Season 1, after which he was signed by the VP organization, opening the second lineup of Virtus.pro Polar (later - ASUS Polar). The team was able to win Battle of Central Europe Season 3, as well as perform well in Dota 2 League Season 5 and StarLadder StarSeries Season 11.

After becoming Virtus.pro 's main roster , ASUS Polar won DreamLeague Season 3 and Esportal Dota 2 League, for which they received an invitation to The International 2015, where they placed 5th-6th and earned over $1.1 million in prize money. After the 7th-8th place at The Frankfurt Major 2015 and further failures of the team Illidan left Virtus.pro. Then he played for Elements Pro Gaming, Fantastic.Five', SFTe-sports and other teams, but did not achieve significant results.

Illidan later moved to Team Spirit and placed 3rd at Galaxy Battles II: Emerging Worlds, 7th-9th at ESL One Birmingham 2018, 13-16th at China Dota2 Supermajor, but failed to qualify for The International 2018. In 2019, Illidan was a coach at Quincy Crew and Chaos Esports Club.