User:Guldana Sheralieva/Major League of KVN 2015

Season of the Higher League of KVN 2015 — the 29th season with the revival of the television KVN in 1986.

Twenty teams, including nine debutants, were invited to the 2015 season. Three of them got the right to play in the Top League in 2014: they are the champions of the Premier League national Team of Georgia; Vice-champions of Radio Liberty, invited to the season by the jury members at the end of the final ;and the team that won the special tournament "Road to the Top League 2015" — "Omichi" (former "Youth team"). The rest of the teams were selected to the Top League at the Sochi festival, which was held under the new scheme. Now, according to the results of the second qualifying round, Alexander Vasilevich Maslyakov, Alexander Aleksandrovich Maslyakov and AMIK editors-in-chief select about thirty candidates for the third round. After shows and dress rehearsals, several teams are eliminated. Others perform in the gala concert, where a special jury composed Maslyakovichs, editor Leonid Cuprido and invited jury members from the top of the League Dmitry Nagiyev takes command in the season. After three years in which the "First channel" did not broadcast the gala concert of the festival, and one year in which the gala concert was not at all due to the Sochi Olympics, AMIKU was again provided with air for the opening of the season, which this time took place in Gorki City.

As a result of selection out of the gala concert were the two finalists of the tournament "the Road to the top League 2015": command "Rostov-Don" which was played by the famous members of Rostov, and "the Command of KVN BGU", who already had experience of playing in the Highest League of KVN. At the gala concert, the jury left behind the semi-finalists of the 2014 season, the national Team of RUDN. Instead of these commands were taken in a season other representatives of Rostov, Minsk and Moscow: semi-finalists of First League, the team of "Priority" from Rostov-on-Don; the semi-finalists of the International League, "Best friends" from Minsk; and the finalists of the Premier League, the Team of the University "Synergya" from Moscow, regained its previous name: "Horizon".

Also to the season included the Champions of the First League — kazan "Banquet leading Team", as well as Vice-Champions of the League — the Team of the agricultural Academy. "Radio Liberty" team became the first team of the Major League from Yaroslavl.

Many participants of the previous season, including finalists from Murmansk and Belgorod, returned to the Top League. "Bad company" and "Asia MIX"played their third season in a row. Bishkek residents presented a new format of their team, moving away from the image of guest workers, they moved to a different style of performances, for which new characters were invented — (kazakh shaman, uzbek actress, tajik singer). Changed the style of presentations and the national Team of Dagestan, joined by cheerful and resourceful with experience Yusup Omarov.

KVN team "Cambridge" and the Team Phystech decided to skip this season. At the festival in Sochi, they said that a return to the Top League in 2016 is possible. The possible return in 2016 was announced by the team of KVN "Raisa", who did not come to the festival. As a result, in the 2016 season returned only the national Team of fiztech, and "Raisa" returned in 2017. After absence "Rais", and also "Kefir" and "the CIS national Team on free-style wrestling", the only team which returned to a season after annual absence, became "the national Team of Kamyzyaksky edge on KVN".

The 2015 season was the first in which more than four teams played in the final. Before the semifinals, it was decided that four teams (two from each game), as well as the winner of the Moscow mayor's Cup, go directly to the final. On the Cup Konstantin Ernst asked to get also the team which took the second place. Thus, six teams got to the final. In addition to the finalists of the previous seasons, "Team Kamyzyaksky region KVN", "Detective Agency "Moonlight" and the Team of the city of Murmansk, in the decisive game were the debutants of the season "Radio Liberty", as well as the Team of Dagestan and "Sparta", which became the second Kazakh team in the final of the Major League, after the "Kazakhs" in the seasons 2008 and 2010. At the end of the game, Murmansk won bronze medals, the duo from Belgorod again got silver, and gold medals and the title of champion won the "Team of the Kamyzyakskyi region".