Alex 'MaT' Labotkin (Russian: Алексей Лаботкин; born 22 January 1988) is one of the best Russian IT Experts, good blogger and supporter of CyberSport.

Biography

was born in Narva. His father was an engineer. His mother was a programmer. Together his parents gave him a good knowledge in computer world. He graduated from school No. 14, which was respectable at those times, in Narva in 2007. He began his career as a haker when he was a young boy , trying to earn some poket money. After that, at the age of 15, he was caught by internet police. Between 2003 and 2006, he earned a living and spend a lot of time in legal cyber world, at this time he was interested in cybersports.
And got success in it.

In 2006 he was attending lots of Lan events, such as ESL - Electronic Sports League, ESWC and SHGOpen, having success with his team. But At the end of 2006, his team had collapsed. He started his own business.

From the 7th of September 2007, at age of 20 he already became an owner of "Statix Technology" and "Xpoint Gaming Club" and stated to support cybersport in Estonia.

About Labotkin in newspapers

Newspaper article "Battle of the keyboards and mouses".

Newspaper article "The third cybersport tournament in Narva".

References

www.mat.ee - his homepage

www.xpoint.ee - Xpoint Gaming Club, his own computer club

Business is My Lifestyle :> - his business blog in russian

Business is My Lifestyle :> - his business blog in english