Player Silent from from Team Spirit Dota 2
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Ayrat Silent Gaziev is a professional Dota 2 player from Russia, a champion of major tournaments and a repeated participant and two-time winner of The International (as a coach). He gained fame thanks to his performances on the kerry position in Team Empire.
Silent started his cybersport career in Dota 2 in 2012, when he joined Moscow Five. The promising squad with PGG and Vigoss won the weekly Play4Dota 2012 #1 and joinDOTA Masters X, got "silver" StarLadder StarSeries Season 1 and "bronze" StarLadder StarSeries Season 2, for which he was invited to The International 2012. The first main event of the year was a scouting mission for Ayrat: he took 13-16th place and returned home without prize money, but he showed himself to be a talented and promising player.
He started the new season with Team Empire: the team won the Round Robin StarLadder StarSeries Season 3, and took 2nd place at the tournament itself. This was followed by victories at RaidCall Dota 2 League Season 1, ASUS Open 2012 Finals and other competitions, which made Ayrat and his teammates the favorites of the region, but due to unfortunate roster changes, the roster was sharply moved to the outsiders, so Silent left it to join Quantic. Despite a good start, this team failed at The International 2013 qualifications, and Airat left the team in favor of Team Empire.
The years 2014 and 2015 became very significant for Silent, as he participated in all the top tournaments, won Techlabs Cup 2014 Season 1, Dota 2 Champions League Season 3, StarLadder StarSeries Season 11, joinDOTA MLG Pro League Season 1, Dota 2 Champions League Season 5 and others. It would seem that one of the strongest teams in the world should either win at The International or definitely climb to the top of the rankings, but there was no luck with that: in these years Team Empire entered only the top-14 and top-12 respectively.
After that, Ayrat's achievements went downhill, with a brief comeback only in 2017, when as part of Winstrike Team he finished 3rd at EPICENTER XL and made it to the top 9-12 of The International 2018 after winning regional qualifiers.
After wrapping up his playing career in 2019, Silent joined Team Spirit as a coach, and with the team finished in first place at The International 2021. After the spot replacement of the team's mider Alexander TORONTOTOKYO Hertek with Denis Larl Sigitov in 2022, the team started its way to re-domination on the proscenium and in 2023 Silent together with the guys once again raised the coveted Aegis above their heads.