melharucos

About

Vladimir Dubrovin, known as Melharucos, is a streamer who won the MVP award at the Dota 2 tournament BetBoom Streamers Battle 13 in May 2026.^[1] He joined Solo Team for the lower-bracket semifinal as its position-four player and won every remaining match.^[1] The team beat Recrent's lineup 3:2 in the final and earned two million rubles.^[2]

Home Price Gauntlet

Before that tournament, melharucos helped bring a game-completion challenge from offline streamer gatherings into a home format. Organizer Ivan Dëmkin recalled in a March 2021 interview that melharucos wanted to run the format at home, and that he and UncleBjorn joined him. The original challenge grouped games by price; an earlier version had grouped them by release period.^[3]

By the third season of Home Price Gauntlet, melharucos was one of six participants in a competition structured like a board game. Completing a game counted as a move, while players captured sectors on a map and formed alliances or fought each other. The season also imposed a weekly limit on time spent completing games, after some participants had streamed for more than 15 hours at a time during the previous season.^[3]