Meh, I turned 23 two days ago and I swear to God I feel older. My cousin is 18 now and he talks about the girls all the time, going out and stuff, while I am totally fine with my current style of life. A year and 7 months long relationship with my lovely Ana, e-sports and friends. I am avoiding crowded places and clubs, it kinda bothers me lately, though that wasn't the case in Beijing at MSI BEAT IT Finals when we partied a lot and had great time. Seems like I got bored of domestic clubs.

MSI BEAT IT Finals

How to even start writing about this, so much happened right there if I had to use a few words for every situation it would look like this: Work, work, work, party, party, party, spicy food, pollution, work, work, cancelled flight, models, dinners, new friends, MSI HQ China, FnaticMSI.CS, Sam, crazy Americans Xp3 and Irukanji, Marc aka Nix0n, Barry and Marco from MSI, brothers cArn and DSN, no sleep, 30th floor 5 stars hotel, night in Vienna, models again.

If I started writing about this in details, it would take so much time so I'll be short here. I added a few videos I filmed, some of them were not published. Beijing is awesome, new and great buildings, everyone is doing something, they are like ants but polution is too high and it's dirty so I couldn't live there for sure. MSI BEAT IT Grand Finals started a bit hectic as we experienced problems with a few computers in CS 1.6 area. A few monitors were not really compatible with graphic cards and couldn't produce 75Hz refresh rate and because of that only group A was played on the first day while group B had to be moved for 2nd day of the tournament.(Just in front of the hotel, Barry from MSI (middle), one of the tournament admins and I.

On our way to MSI China HQ

We went to the StarLive venue at 8 AM, group B started and finished afternoon, around 4pm. Some delays happened again but it was much better then on the first day and semi-final matches started around 6 pm. Fnatic CS team finished second in the group and were matched against Lions in the semi-finals. Guys lost the first map but then won 2 in a row and found themselves in the grand final. Before that, team EG defeated Tyloo and everything was set for the finals and 3rd place decider. Around 10 PM everyone went back to hotel, but I mean everyone except me and Marc (aka nix0n from HLTV.org). We were hardcore and stayed there with Lions (shoutout to Emil), Tyloo and a few admins. That was pretty much everyone at the venue and 3rd place match started around 11PM. Overtimes on the first map, then again on the third map and victory for Lions around 3 AM was a sum up of that game. We caught two cabs and went back to hotel to get some sleep, we knew we need to get up at 7 AM again so we all had 3 hours of sleep that night.

Our boys signing autographs

A few calls from the reception to wake me up didn't work so my roommate, Oliver (aka Jester) from QuadV woke me up and we headed to the hotel lobby to catch the bus to the venue. CS finals were very interesting and EG came out victorious after very good performance on de_train (3rd map). A dance group had an act after that and finally WC3 finals between Moon and TH000 started. As TH was coming from the winner bracket, had needed to win 1 best of three serie while Moon had to take two best of 3 series to win the grand prize. He managed to do it in the first series but human player recovered well in the 2nd set of games and mostly with the help of towers sealed the deal and walked away with 2,500$.

Sam's speach @ closing ceremony

Awards!

Closing ceremony was very nice and something I will never forget as well as the whole event. After that we all headed back to the hotel to prepare for afterparty. MSI took us to a dinner in 7 stars hotel called Pangu Beijing Hotel and it was totally awesome eating with golden fork, spoon and a knife. View for the restaurant was awesome, you could see Bird's Nest and the whole Olympic City.

MR.Stuart

Yummiiiiii

After the dinner, our CS team, Sam, MSI crew, Marc, Lions, a few people from EG, Sam, Grubby, Cassandra and a few more of us went to Mix, one of the best night clubs in Beijing and partied until...It was good ;) I had 2 hours of sleep or summtin then woke up to catch my flight. *Fast forwarding* Left engine couldn't start and I ended up in Beijing for 1 more night (I met some models from my country and Russia on the plane), called Patrik and Harley (cArn and DSN) to hook up that night. As Patrik said in his latest blog, I'll stop there, but here's the view from my room on the 30th floor.

I spent one more night in Vienna because it was too late (around 22:00) for connection flights. Blame the destiny for putting me in situation to spend the night with two models who wanted to drink beer rather then sleep... I arrived home somehow on the next day :D Enough!

Shoutout to everyone I met in Beijing, especially MSI crew Barry and Marco, Marc from HLTV, Xp3 and Irukandji, gfn and n0thing from EG (sad that Ediz retired), our managing director Sam (check out his replay where he kills his own expansion, he was sitting next to me and definitely made my day), Gomez, Grubby, Cassandra, Oliver and Stuart, Lions, a few Chinese admins at the tournament, our CS team, and everyone, I know I will forget someone, 100%! Slap me in here please if I did. Oh wait, I almost forgot about Patrik and Harley (lies) :) Ty for everything brothers <3

Fnatic Graffiti Wall

Not so sure if I shared this already but I'll do it, if you've already seen this slap me again :) I did this with my uncle a few months ago.

Note that letters will be coloured black in a few days ;)