IG win Redemption Vote, Maids Cosplay incoming

The wait is over and the votes have been counted! Big congratulations to Invictus Gaming for their success in getting the community’s support and votes. It’s now time for Chuan&Co to deliver the Maids Cosplay they managed to get everyone so excited about.

Congratulations to @invgaming for taking first place in the #Summit3 by GIGABYTE Redemption Vote! http://t.co/8xD02ntXVu

— BeyondTheSummit (@BeyondTheSummit) April 19, 2015

After campaigning that could rival any American Presidency Campaign, the teams and fans, eagerly awaited the fruits of the hard work.

Moments leading up to the results

Na’Vi squad – XBOCT, Dendi, Funn1k, ArtStyle, and Sonneiko, have thanked their fans for all their support:

Today is the last day of voting and soon we will know, who will go to The Summit 3, and therefore we would like to make a small announcement. The last few days have influenced us very much. For the first time since very long our team is practicing not just for the sake of it, but is conducting an effective training process. Many important matches lie ahead of Natus Vincere, where you will be able to see our progress. The campaign that our organization has launched to support us, and also your feedback on it have pushed us to work harder and made us realize that the main goal is not the trip to The Summit 3, but the recovery of the lost trust. The trust that can’t be brought back just by funny videos, pictures and interviews, but only by hard work, great games and glorious victories.
Today, no matter what the voting results will be, we are deeply thankful to everyone who took part in this, as only with your support and feedback we understood that our goal is much deeper than to just train and win. Your trust. We will bring it back.

Time for #RedemptionVote results! @BeyondTheSummit

— Vitalii Volochai (@v1lat) April 19, 2015

Regardless of the #Summit3 Redemption results, we'd like to thank all of our fans that supported and voted for us this week. #WeAreAlliance

— Alliance (@theAllianceGG) April 19, 2015

.@DotACapitalist navi or riot?

— Artsiom Barshak (@Fnggshka) April 19, 2015

Summary of Campaigns

The Alliance

Completed in advance:

• [A]HUD Twitter giveaways
• Fan stories published on homepage

To be completed upon condition of winning:

• Henrik “Bulldog” Ahnberg 24h stream
• Jacky “Eternal Envy” Mao dye hair, playlist, stream AMA
• Backstreet Boys video

Invictus Gaming

To be completed upon condition of winning:

• Maids Cosplay Photoshoot

Na’Vi

Completed in advance:

• Dedicated website
• Arcana facebook giveaways
• Aleksander “Xboct” Dashkevich interview
• Bootcamp streaming
• Gleb “Funn1k” Lipatnikov AMA
• Several youtube videos
• Ivan “Artstyle” Antonov interview

Well, perhaps the community will have another opportunity to see EE dye his hair blonde or Alliance make a backstreet boys video.

IG will join the invited defending champions ViCi Gaming and the six qualified teams: Team Secret, Cloud 9, Rave, LGD, Evil Geniuses, and Not Today. As of April 1, 2015, the total prize pool for The Summit 3 is $203,513. The event kicks off on May 17.