Teams Tomsk – Salekhard (Tomsk region – Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO)) and Eurotour (Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU)) according to the results of the KVN festival in Sochi were among the 24 teams that in 2013 will play in the first league, said the head of the regional department for information policy, Alexei Sevostyanov.

Two Tomsk teams reached the first league of KVN

Teams Tomsk – Salekhard (Tomsk region – Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO)) and Eurotour (Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU)) according to the results of the KVN festival in Sochi were among the 24 teams that in 2013 will play in the first league, said the head of the regional department for information policy, Alexei Sevostyanov.

TOMSK, January 27 – RIA Novosti, Karina Sapunova. Teams Tomsk – Salekhard (Tomsk region – Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO) and Eurotour (Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU)) according to the results of the KVN festival in Sochi were among the 24 teams that in 2013 will play in the first league, the head of the regional department for information policy, Alexei Sevostyanov, told RIA Novosti on Sunday.

Earlier it was reported that the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug offered the Tomsk region, as a KVN-ovsky smithy, to create a joint team. A casting was held, as a result of which the team included students from Tomsk universities and three representatives of the YNAO.

According to the regional administration, in 2013 one of the priority areas of youth policy will be the development of the KVN movement in the region and the release of the Tomsk team to the big leagues.

The combined team of KVN of the Tomsk region and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Tomsk – Salekhard, which successfully performed at the gala concert of the festival KiViN-2013 in Sochi, entered the first league of the International Union of KVN. This is a phenomenal success of the team formed a few months ago , Sevostyanov said.

He added that according to the results of the festival, another Tomsk team, the Eurotour TPU team, created in 2007, received a ticket to the first league. A total of 24 teams will play in the first league in 2013.

The Major League is the main one in KVN, its champion is considered the champion of the entire club. The host is Alexander Maslyakov, the judges are famous people: actors, writers, musicians, athletes, businessmen and others. Major league games are broadcast in Russia and abroad.

Below is the Premier League, but its games are also televised. The champion of the premier league gets the right to participate in the major league games. The First League, where the best teams of the Sochi festival go, is considered a preparatory step for games in the Premier League and the Premier League. The champion of the first league receives the right to participate in the games of the premier league and the major league.

Over the past 15 years, there have been two teams in Tomsk that have become champions of the major league of KVN. The first is Children of Lieutenant Schmidt.In October 1996, the first performance of the team on the KVN Siberia stage took place. Already in 1997, the Children became the KVN Siberian league champions. Also, the team became the Champion of the Highest League of the KVN 1998, the super-champion of 1999 and 2001.

The Maximum team of Tomsk State University (TSU) became the champion of the KVN Premier League in 2004 and 2005, the best in the Highest KVN league in 2008.