Player Kitrak from from Shopify Rebellion Dota 2 | ID: 44319

Kartik Kitrak Rathi is an American professional Dota 2 player. He is a former analyst for team T1. He plays in the fifth position on the Shopify Rebellion team.

Kitrak first appeared in the cybersports sphere in 2016, when he tried to qualify for The International 2016 as part of EG BULBA, but the attempt was unsuccessful. In September 2017, he briefly coached the VGJ.Storm squad, and in November, Kitrak played for OpTic Gaming at the Midas Mode tournament as a replacement for MISERY. Together with him, the team won the championship at the tournament and earned $18,000.

In January 2018, Kitrak became part of the Animal Planet team, which also included legendary players MoonMeander and Aui_2000. The team performed at various qualifications, but failed to achieve significant results, and soon the Canadian cybersports organization Iceberg Esports signed the Animal Planet roster. After a month of playing under the new tag, the roster failed to realize its potential and said goodbye to the organization, and Kitrak in turn becomes a standin of compLexity Gaming team, with which he played at the qualifications for MDL Changsha Major and GESC: Thailand Dota2 Minor. As part of Wind and Rain Kitrak tried to make it to The International 2018, and also tried his hand at test123. In March 2019, Forward Gaming invited the American for a trial period as a fifth position player - during this time, the team won the Qi Invitational Americas and finished 5th-6th at the 2019 OGA Dota PIT Minor LAN tournament, but the organization eventually replaced Kartik with pieliedie.

After leaving Forward Gaming Kitrak played for teams such as beastcoast, Kookaburra and Evil Geniuses for a while as a substitute. Two years after his inactivity on the professional scene, Kitrak announced that South Korean organization T1 had signed him as a team analyst for Dota 2. The team soon participated in The International 2022: Southeast Asia Qualifiers, where a 3rd place finish guaranteed their participation in the Last Chance Qualifier. On November 21, 2023, he joined the Shopify Rebellion team.