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Team Spirit Partners With Russian Food Delivery Service Yandex Eats

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Hongyu Chen

1 year ago

Team Spirit Partners With Russian Food Delivery Service Yandex Eats

Eastern Europe esports organization Team Spirit announced this week that it signed a partnership deal with Russian food delivery service Yandex Eats. The brand will be named the official partner of Team Spirit’s Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Hearthstone divisions, and will be featured on the team jerseys.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Team Spirit was one of the most successful esports organizations in 2021, winning over $21.5M USD in prize money—the lion’s share of $40M in Dota 2’s The International in 2021. Yandex Eats, owned by Russia’s biggest search engine, is one of the biggest food delivery companies in Russia.

Hongyu Chen

Hongyu "Eddie" Chen serves as conduit from China to the rest of global esports scene as the only Chinese journalist living in China while writing for Western media outlets. For the last four years Eddie served as the China esports correspondent for The Esports Observer and Sports Business Journal. He is a bilingual graduate of MA Business and Marketing and a certified BEng Electronic and Communication Engineer.