For the Russian national team, changing each other in different game session played Stepan Budakov (the captain of the team, 17 years old), Alex Czerkawski (17), Vladislav Vasiliev (19), Alexander Nikolaev (30), Dmitry Ilyin (27), Denis Timonin (31), Mikhail Panchenko (18). Our team started the competition with two defeats from Spain (47:92) and Italy (52:62), but then, having accustomed in cyberspace, scored six victories in a row over Cyprus (102:61), Austria (63:58), Switzerland (86:50), Lithuania (76:42), Ukraine (92:55) and Latvia (76:48).
In most games “extravaganza” Mikhail Panchenko, his performance in some matches even worthy of special mention, despite the fact that it’s not real, “live”, a virtual basketball – 43 points with Cyprus, 35 points “flew” Switzerland, plus a full-fledged “tridtsatnik” Ukraine, and so on. The initiative Panchenko was supported at the end of the tournament the team captain Stepan Budakov – 32 points for Ukraine and another 25 for our neighbors from Latvia.
the Overall results of the competition in the European conference are the following: Italy – 8 wins – 0 losses, Spain – 7-1, Russia – 6-2, Austria – 5-3, Lithuania – 4-4, Latvia – 3-5, Switzerland – 2-6, Cyprus 1-7, and an absolute outsider – Ukraine 0-8.
the Tournament under the auspices of FIBA took place on this stage in different geographical areas, although, by and large, for using the computer belonging to continental countries does not matter. Anyway, but FIBA is trying to bring virtual reality to a tangible reality.
Here is the situation in other continental areas. Middle East Asia: Saudi Arabia – 4 wins – 1 loss, Lebanon – 1-4. Southeast Asia: Philippines 5-0 Indonesia – 0-5. Australia and Oceania: Australia 4-1 New Zealand – 1-4. South America: Argentina 4-1 Brazil – 1-4. Thus, made a total of 17 national teams.
Explain that the emergence of interactive basketball in the official classification of the Ministry of sports of the Russian Federation became possible due to perseverance of the President of the Russian basketball Federation (RBF), Andrei Kirilenko. Despite the fact that he is a brilliant master of real basketball, played more than ten seasons in the North American NBA, became the champion of Europe (2007), was winner of the Olympic games (2012), Kirilenko attentive monitors trends in youth and understands the current importance of various computer events.
by the Way, the official site of the RBF showed all the matches of the tournament “FIBA Esports Open 2020” live, published statistics and gave a detailed report. This is the present situation in the “real world” very little happens. Although representatives of the older generation view computer fun prefer show now our TV matches of the championship of Spain (“World of Basketball”), the German Bundesliga and the Chinese championship (both of the tournament “TV Start”).
