Everyone knows this brilliant Night Elf player from Russia. Andrey "Deadman" Sobolev, a maphacker at the very beginning of his gaming experience, then a rising star on Russian WarCraft3 scene and then one of the best Night Elf players in the world is coming back to professional gaming.

Once one of the shining stars in SK-Gaming WarCraft3 lineup, Deadman decided to slow down his training and joined up with Defining Stars, which became wicked not so long ago. We haven't seen Andrey in any serious clanwar action for a long time now. Looks like he will amuse us with his skill once again.

Andrey "wicked.Deadman" Sobolev has been granted an automatic qualifying spot in the KODE5 Global Finals which will be conducted in early May in Moscow, Russia. This means Russia now has two gamers to send to the Global Finals - Deadman and the Russian qualifier winner (to be determined).

Short list of his awards

Three ASUS Russia tourneys - 1st place
Dreamhack 2006 - 1st place
WCG Russia 2006 - 1st place
KODE5 China - 1st place
Russian Championship (2004) - 1st place
ESWC 2005 - 2nd place
ACON4 - 2nd place
ACON5 - 3rd place

Thanks to proplay.ru for the news tip.