Player kiyotaka from from 9Pandas Dota 2 | ID: 4811

Gleb kiyotaka Zyryanov (or depressed kid) is a Russian Dota 2 cybersports player known for playing for Team Empire during qualifications for The International 10. His best character is Invoker.

Depressed kid started his cybersport career in the second half of 2020, playing for various "mixes" in dash-3 and dash-4 tournaments. In October 2020, he became a member of Team Unique NOVA youth squad. One of the most notable achievements of the cyber athlete during this period was a bronze medal at the META'20 Open (Autumn).

With the start of the new DPC season in 2021, the young Midlaner joined Team Unique to participate in the open qualifiers for ESL One CIS Online Season 1: Lower Division. Unfortunately, only at the second attempt the team managed to get to the final stage of qualifications, where they lost to XactJlepbI with a score of 0:2. After that, the depressed kid again went to play in various "mixes", but RUSSIANDRILL stands out from them, which made it to the group stage of EPIC League Season 3, but failed to reach the playoffs. At that time, StrangeR noticed the young cyber athlete and offered him to join Team Empire as a replacement for gwynbleidd.

Together with the new Midlaner, Team Empire managed to qualify for the Dota 2 Champions League 2021 Season 1 playoffs and finished second at ESL One Eastern Europe Online Season 2: Lower Division, earning $16,000 in prize money. Team Empire defeated favorites such as Natus Vincere, PuckChamp and HellRaisers in qualifying for The International 10. In the finals, they lost to Team Spirit 2:3 in a hard-fought match. Despite the loss, many analysts named Petushara and kiyotaka the MVP of the qualifications.

After qualifying for TI 10, in November 2021, kiyotaka moved to Team CIS Reject, where there were no positive results. And after the same result was waiting for Gleb in the team Pari Parni.

In December 2022, kiyotaka will join HellRasers, where the team wins the Pinnacle Cup. Malta Vibes #1, and after the guys from HellRisers create their own team 9 Pandas, where Gleb and company still play. Under the new tag Gleb took third place ESL One Berlin Major 2023 and 5-6 at Bali Major 2023. Also 9Pandas has already managed to participate in The International 2023, where they took 9-12th place.

Now kiyotaka is actively preparing for the tournament ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023, which 9 Pandas got to as a result of closed qualification. At this tournament, the team failed and took 11th-12th place, dropping out of the group stage. 

• January 5, 2024 - kiyotaka will continue to play together with RAMZES666, they appeared in the L1GA Team. The debut will be at the Closed Qualifier for BB Dacha Dubai 2024 for teams from Eastern Europe.

kiyotaka together with L1GA Team stopped one step away from passing to BB Dacha Dubai 2024, there was a defeat in the grand finals by Virtus.pro. At the qualifiers to DreamLeague Season 22, the results were worse, 7th-8th line and the departure from Nemiga Gaming and 9 Pandas. 

• January 22, 2024 - kiyotaka leaves L1GA Team and returns to the starting lineup of 9 Pandas.

After his return, Gleb tried to qualify for tournaments such as ESL One Birmingham, Elite League 2024, DreamLeague Season 23 and PGL Wallachia Season 1, but only managed to qualify for the Elite League, where he finished 24th. A little later, kiyotaka tried to qualify for the Riyadh Masters 2024 and The International 2024, but failed in both. The 29th of June saw the start of the qualifiers for Elite League Season 2, which he and his team failed to qualify for, finishing in 7th place.

• 1 July 2024 - 9pandas moved kiyotaka to the reserves.