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Cypher (Quake player)
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Status
Active
Nationality
Belarusian
2008–2012
Serious Gaming
Current teams
Fnatic, Serious Gaming
Hometown
Minsk
Games
Quake
Home town
Minsk
Championships
QuakeCon: 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
Alexey Yanushevsky (Алексе́й Анато́льевич Януше́вский) (born May 17, 1990), who also goes by the pseudonym "Cypher", is a Belarusian professional player of the first person shooter series Quake. He is of Belarusian nationality, resides in Minsk and is signed to Dutch esports team Serious Gaming. He has been actively competing in international Quake competitions since February 24, 2006. Cypher was most notably the first one to win the QuakeCon 1v1 tournament 4 times (2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014). Yanushevksy has been a champion of many other tournaments, including Electronic Sports World Cup, Intel Extreme Masters, Dreamhack or Asus Cups.
Originally a Quake III player, Yanushevsky gained prominence with successes in Eastern European competitions in Quake IV shortly after the game's release. At the age of 16 he successfully qualified for the Electronic Sports World Cup in his native Belarus and defeated twofold world champion Russian Anton Singov in Moscow competitions. He subsequently entered the Electronic Sports World Cup and was considered a dark horse contestant at the world championship, Yanushevsky eventually reached the finals of the event where he was defeated, taking second place at the event at an age at which he was too young to enter Cyberathlete Professional League or World Series of Video Games competitions.
Afterwards, Cypher was signed to professional video gaming team Fnatic. He made top five finishes at QuakeCon as well as the World Cyber Games. The following year he was one of the more successful players in international competition, taking 2nd and 3rd at two World Series of Video Games stops.
After the World Series of Video Games disbanded mid-season, Yanushevsky started focusing primarily on Quake III again, which eventually culminated in victory at the Electronic Sports World Cup Masters in July, 2008. After which he was signed to the team Serious Gaming. On August 3, 2008 Yanushevsky won the QUAKE LIVE 1v1 Championship at QuakeCon 2008 winning his second major title. On August 27 he won the Electronic Sports World Cup 2008.
Cypher left Serious Gaming in December 2012.
In December 2013 Cypher beat Shane "Rapha" Hendrixson to win DreamHack Winter 2013.
In July 2014 Cypher won his fourth QuakeCon by winning QuakeCon 2014 without losing a single map in the play-offs stage.
2015
6th – QuakeCon 2015 – Dallas, Texas
2014
1st – QuakeCon 2014 – Dallas, Texas
2013
1st – Dreamhack Winter 2013 (Quake Live) – Jonkoping, Sweden
2012
3rd – Dreamhack Winter 2012 (Quake Live) – Jonkoping, Sweden
1st – Adroits LAN (Quake Live) – Enschede, Netherlands
1st – QuakeCon 2012 (Quake Live) – Dallas, Texas
2nd – Dreamhack Summer 2012 (Quake Live) – Jonkoping, Sweden
2011
1st – Dreamhack Winter2011 (Quake Live) – Jonkoping, Sweden