[In this video]
We practised so hard.
The black eye.
Our losses.
They did good job.
Servers to Kazakhstan.
We didn't thought of winning Major.
So what?
To tell the truth we were literally dying.
We played 5 hours a day and ate rice.
People are passing by. Danya  
 chose a cool place, right?
There are no good players.
There are many teams interested in s1mple.
And I don't understand what you want.
-Is it working?
-Yes. There's a man in the background, but all right.
Hi to everyone. Here's my bodyguard. 
To be honest, I wanted to talk to you long ago.
It's very serious and in this relaxed atmosphere 
we'll discuss our plans and not only.
I'm with glasses, no pathos. 
I just still have the black eye and I don't want to...
Bitch.
So firstly we'll discuss 
the publication of my book: when, what and how,
where you can buy it and so on.
Secondly, our defeat at ESL Pro League.
Also our defeats in the last months. 
There are already enough of them.
We can talk about the ELEAGUE 
and the lost Major final, a bit about everything.
We'll also say some words about CIS League
 which we and Faceit have established recently.
And I'll just tell you our plans. 
We rarely talk with you like that.
It's high time.
So, let's start with the book. 
Two different editors were working on it.
We've signed a contract with the publisher. 
We had some paper work problems with it.
It is a big publishing house 
which publishes all around the world.
Of course it's mostly oriented towards CIS 
but you can order it from anywhere in the world.
We publish the book in Russian.
Our next goal is to publish it in English. 
It's being translated but it'll take us time.
It'll be in English as well, 
so everything will be okay.
You'll be able to order it on the website. 
It'll be very simple.
There'll be special offers and we'll try to make 
the delivery as cheap as possible.
So we'll send it to Russia, Ukraine, 
Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries.
When will it come out? 
Now it's in the page-proof stage.
It's an important part. Now we're working on the cover.
There'll quality paper, 
a nice hard cover if anybody needs it.
It should be great. We do our best 
and we do it from the heart.
I'm a bit nervous because of the book 
because I wrote it with all my heart
and I wanted to share my life, 
game and champion experience with you.
All my knowledge. I worried a lot about it 
and I wanted to hear an impartial opinion.
I gave it to my friends, acquaintances, 
gamers and businessmen of different age.
To fans as well 
and to completely different people so to say.
There'll be about thirty photos in it.
We talked to some top gamers and to my friends from esports
like zonic, glave, zerogravity,
 ceh9, rise and others.
They described some events 
and they made some contribution to the book.
They said it's easy to read 
and to imagine all this and it's funny.
They read it in 3-4 days and I was shocked 
as 400 pages usually take more time to read.
But they read it easily.
And there are also 50 pages of advice
which will be helpful for gamers first of all 
but also for those who want to be successful.
There's a lot of things related not only to cs.
Ordinary people who read it said they started to 
imply some advice into their life.
Some are connected with your schedule 
and the idea that thoughts are things.
I just recalled Reva from Comedy Club 
who told that
'I'm Tony Robbins, this is my schedule' 
and there's an up arrow.
'I've been working on it for 5 years.'
Or 'I wrote a book about at what time 
people should wake up. It's called 'At 8.30 am''
I tried to exclude such trifles because
It must be a cool book. You will be able to preorder it before winter.
I don't know if we'll be in time 
but the publishing house is already working.
And I think you'll like it.
So next...my bodyguard...
Next is what's with the team, 
our future and our losses on tournaments.
You see us in the videos 
walking, laughing, joking and so on
buying some expensive clothes. 
It's just an image that you see.
It's just a part of our life. And I wouldn't like to...
 No, not that I wouldn't like but...
At least I understand that you form 
your opinion on us judging from all this.
And you can think that we don't care and we just laugh.
That we got greedy. Firstly...
People are passing by. Danya chose a cool place, 
right, Danya?
So, guys, there's no aim to prove or to show something to you.
There's another side of the coin 
where we lose, cry and so on.
Even if you don't believe, 
we feel anxious and don't sleep.
We get a lot of stress.
Someone less, someone more but it is so.
Let's start with a tournament 
in Sweden, Dreamhack.
We were beaten up by North if I'm not mistaken.
We had just one day of practice before it.
Why? One of our members had some difficulties. 
Doesn't matter who it was.
Because of that we couldn't practise properly.
We're back, ladies and gentlemen. 
We continue our nice talk.
Now we'll talk about what's wrong with our team 
and when it all has started.
There have been problems from the beginning
but nobody knew about it.
It's some hidden details.
So, we were beaten by North. As I have already said 
there were some circumstances.
We lost without a chance. 
North won the tournament, they did good job.
Then it was Major.
We had 5 days of bootcamp before it.
To tell the truth we practised so hard, 
we were literally dying.
We played 5 hours a day and ate rice. 
We did an immense job.
Considering that we wanted to practise 
t least 10 days but we did only one
that we performed badly in Sweden 
and had only 5 days of practice before Major
we didn't thought of winning Major.
Yes, there's always a hope for the top 2 team 
which won world championship in Cologne
and beat the best team, Astralis.
And you always have the slightest hope
to win any championship.
The question is 'Do you deserve 
to win the championship?' I always have it, too.
But matters not thoughts but actions.
Psychology means a lot in cs go 
as well as in esports.
When Astralis played in the final
they said 'We strongly believe in it,
we practised and worked more and we deserve more
and we know that for some reasons 
NaVi trained less' so they felt more confident.
And we got under some pressure. 
I can't say that it's the key thing or it matters but
But it's always there 
in the psychological aspect.
We moved on through the tournament confidently 
but we played very badly at the first match, yes.
We lost the first map, Inferno, to Astralis 16:14. 
We were very close.
We showed cool game 
but we understood that it wasn't our top.
So we weren't upset. It was the first match, 
against Astralis, we fought back.
Then we moved on showing great cs.
Remember matches with BiG in the quarterfinals 
and MIBR in the semifinals.
And here's the Major final. For Edward and Flamie 
it was one more chance to win Major.
We had lot two finals before 
but I won one with Gambit, I have one little tick.
But believe me this victory didn't make me 
care less.
It gave me a big motivation.
Sasha Simple has already lost one final 
playing for Liquid and he knows how it feels.
So you get ready for this match,
you discuss maps and combinations.
You understand that its the Major final. You come 
and feel that something is happening to you.
Or firstly to your team and then to you, it's not clear.
But your condition is not as always, it's not normal.
But you'd say 'Danya, how this can happen to you? 
You're over 30 and you've won so many tournaments.'
Even if I'm 31, I still can have emotions, 
I'm still in the game.
I worry, sometimes I'm 1 vs 1, my heart begins to beat 
so fast and I get nervous.
Maybe it's some things that don't depend 
neither on the age, nor on the experience.
Maybe I've been playing cs for so long 
because it gives me that emotions,
that adrenaline, that feelings 
which I lack in my life.
And there are some certain abilities 
to deal with these emotions
with these things in the game and I have 
experience and knowledge what to do with it.
Some exercises, correct breathing, 
healthy food and more water,
tea and coffee in right balance.
It doesn't always saves you from such situations 
but it helps you to control your emotions,
to get back to your normal state with some exercises.
Young gamers can have the same emotions 
but they don't know what to overcome them.
They just shut down and sit with trembling hands. 
I saw it many times, believe me.
And we had the same thing 
at the Major final.
We played with Astralis and I heard 
that guys' voice
I won't name anyone in particular but they spoke 
like 'Why didn't you throw a flash? I entered and...'
We were having jitters.
And other guys didn't do anything special 
on Overpass, for example, which we can play so well.
We were just scared and we should have used 
some extraordinary measures like
screaming loudly, clapping and shaking 
to pull ourselves together.
Because when you're trembling and shaking, 
you're on nerves and so on.
It's hard to describe it.
Maybe I show it in a funny way 
but when you feel it I understand that
when you're experienced it's one thing 
and when you're young it's completely different.
And I understand that it's some c.
Don't know if it's a crap or a clusterfuck.
It's very difficult.
And of course you play with a team 
with which you can't play so.
When you weaken yourself, 
you have jitters, it feels it like a predator.
They feel that you don't play toughly, 
cool-headed and confidently.
They finish you off, 
start to work against you professionally.
Nowadays Astralis is the strongest team 
with glave, as the captain, similar to young me.
when I was 24 years old, the NaVi captain back then.
And NaVi broke all the records and won everything in cs 1.6.
And zonic, their coach, once used to be our rival.
He has a lot of experience, a Danish style. 
He always has a notebook with him.
Their gameplay and shooting are at the level. 
So respect to them, they do a great job.
So we lost Major. On the one hand we're in tilt, 
on the other hand the second place is not bad.
Then we flew to NY and had a jet lag. Gambit beat us 
and we were kicked out of the championship.
There nothing to talk about. We just played badly.
Then Epicenter.
We had a bootcamp before Epicenter. 
Everything was good, we made it up to the finals.
And then bing, bing, bing and it's hard to describe 
what's going on with people psychologically
but everyone got angry and frustrated. 
We start to play and everyone was dissatisfied.
It mustn't sound like excuses, I'm just telling you 
what was and is going on in the team.
We played the finals with bad communication. 
Maybe we need a new psychologist.
We already have one 
but maybe we need a new one with new methods.
There are some uncontrolled things happen to our team
we play and we must feel the game together.
But when someone say to you 'I'll give you a flash' 
and your teammate just runs out
and you flash him and he screams at you 
'Why the hell you throw it, bitch?'
'I warned you' 'What do you mean you warned me?' 
and it's unreal to win with such communication.
And we were beaten by Faze and lost another final.
I'm sick and tired of losing finals. Though, 
we didn't have a chance against Liquid yesterday.
By the name I can name one positive difference 
between our loses to Faze and Liquid.
On Epicenter we'd problems with emotions and TS,
yesterday we communicated well.
Everyone gave information, did their best and joked.
There were no problems with TS.
I played horribly. You may ask why 
and I just simply didn't sleep well.
I don't know why but before important matches 
I wake up at 7 am and I lack sleep.
Edward has the same problem. 
Maybe it has something to do with the age.
It happened when I was young but it was easier 
because you had more energy.
But when you're 30 it's difficult. The game was late 
at night, I drank coffee, did some exercises
to keep myself together 
but my brain didn't work and I felt very strange.
An guys playing against me 
just killed me without a chance.
But sometimes you feel too old for it.
Then I played really bad.
But there's a team: if someone sucks, 
there's always guys who turn the game over.
But they ran over the whole team.
Well, only Simple had positive stats, 
he outstood and played better.
We all played badly.
I can't say that we lost due to a particular person.
But I didn't want to get to the final to lose it.
A silly joke but still...
But to be honest we didn't deserve to move on.
If we lost to Liquid, we'd lose to Astralis, 
mousesports and MIBR probably.
We are weaker than these teams at the moment.
Maybe theoretically in another situation 
we could have slept well and showed good cs.
You know that we can do it but for now the fact is 
we're out of this tournament with 5-6 places.
We can say that it was world championship.
I skipped it but there was also BLAST which we won.
Everybody showed a good game, I had a feeling of 
going around and killing people.
You never can tell. There is one team 
which show the most consistent results.
If you look at any other team, 
tell us who played more stable than we this year.
There is a world ranking.
Now we keep the 2-3 place in it.
It means that during the year 
we showed a good and steady game.
Some tournaments we won, 
on some took the 2-3 places.
So when fans start messing around like
'What the hell?' 
and they leave some advice what we should do.
Usually I take it as some baby talks.
Sometimes there are great thoughts and ideas.
You see that 
that person doesn't just write some random shit.
He may try to find a problem, 
he may want to support us.
And it's really pleasant.
I think that a real fan always encourages you 
in a difficult period.
When I feel bad 
and you write something to make it even worse,
it's like when you shot 10 bullets 
and a man is lying and choking on his own blood
he's almost dying and you come to him and say 'Sonofabitch'.
And you take your gun and doesn't finish him off.
And you shoot in the leg or in the heel 
to make him suffer more.
It's very unpleasant when you do it.
I think fans don't behave like that.
Fans during a difficult period are your friends 
and your support.
Let's take off the glasses.
The bruises are almost healed.
We've covered our performance.
I told you everything about fans 
and their comments.
Our plan is to keep moving together.
We aim at winning major together for NaVi,
for the organization we've been working for 
and with for a long time.
We'll have such opportunity 
and I personally will do everything for it.
BLAST is starting in five days.
We won't have opportunity to practise 
before this tournament,
because we don't have computers with us 
and we fly directly to Portugal from here.
So... so what? We'll play with our hope, 
morals and old fuel so to say.
A lot of water but I wanted to show 
and explain you how everything is going on.
Now we keep moving on.
We have one more tournament and though we lost, 
we still have chances to win the next one.
We'll do our best but I won't promise you anything.
We'll see what's next.
League. As you know we established a league 
together with Faceit.
It's the first official league in CIS.
There you can win 3 slots in FPL Europe, 
3 slots in FPL-C.
It is a stage before the main FPL.
There are many different prizes. 
You just need to open a link in the description.
Open subscription box on cisesports.com.
And if you want to take part in it, 
you just subscribe which well cost you 4$.
But if you write the promo-code 'ZEUS', 
you'll get a 25% discount.
You pay 3$ and you play there one month.
Some people write in the comments 
that you have to pay,
why do we need this league and so on,
I read it and there are very few of them 
because it's in vain to write it.
But I want to tell you something. 
I held my own tournaments Zeus Cyber Cup.
And I invested about 100k$ in it.
I had a choice: keep promoting it and moving it 
to the next level or continuing to play.
It wasn't easy but I decided to continue playing.
So we closed everything 
what we were working on because...
I didn't have time to find new sponsors.
And there wasn't anyone 
who could promote this project.
It's very funny to read your comments.
Do you understand that Faceit have spent 
about 1 million dollars for anticheat?
It's a very big anticheat 
to remove at least 99% of cheaters.
Yes, you can write some soft 
but believe me it'll cost a lot.
Faceit always update their anticheat 
to catch more cheaters.
I can't say that there are no cheaters 
but there are almost no.
They made a huge and unique platform.
There are some many things 
and millions of dollars were invested.
There are hundred of people working.
It's a huge platform 
where people play from all around the world.
They do great job technically.
They hold cool contests, 
have a strict system and servers.
They have a cool tickrate unlike MM.
They try to put servers in different regions.
They're doing it professionally 
and they try to make a quality product.
And when someone write 
that you have to pay 4 dollars per month
to play some league, our, for example.
We have 4 thousand dollars prizes.
Though we want to make it up to 10 thousand.
We give 3 FPL slots where you can play qualifications.
People can spot you there 
and a pro team can sign a contract with you.
It can provide you a chance to get into esports.
And when you write some shit 
that everything is wrong and badly done
it makes me laugh.
And I don't understand what you want.
Guys, don't mess around, we made a great league.
Soon we'll put servers to Kazakhstan and Siberia.
We have cool hubs, a lot of subscriptions already, 
there are always matches.
We give away a lot of prizes. 
Visit our League, link in the description.
Promo-code 'ZEUS'. So, let's play.
cisesports.com, we invite you and 
and we're waiting for you.
What for have we decided to talk to you 
and discuss some important points?
I hope that you'll like my book 
and it'll have success.
We plan to sell it on Amazon, 
you'll be able to download it from itunes.
We want to make it popular 
and if you live in America, you'll be able to buy it.
We'll translate it into English.
I shortly told you some details about the team.
I didn't want to pour water. I just wanted to share 
my thoughts about the situation.
I've told you some aspects.
Of course, everyone wants to be top1 
and wants to change everything and do something.
Believe me, you should understand clearly 
what you're doing and what for.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
When you're young you think 
that we'll do it right away, kick somebody.
It's just some needless commotion.
I try to judge from my experience, 
to make right conclusions and analyses,
frank criticizes toward myself and my team 
and I think I know what to do.
For one we're in this situation.
About the team and line-up. 
I think some moments will be clear after BLAST.
There are many things to consider 
and there are many teams interested in simple.
Many things are happening 
but I can't tell you anything.
I just want to get together 
and show a good game on BLAST.
About League. It's very cool, 
there will be lans and so on.
There will be 5x5 tournaments. Subscribe and play.
For now we have about 70 servers. 
We'll make hubs in Kazakhstan and the Far East.
We'll improve and promote CIS players.
I think that the collaboration with Faceit is cool.
I use my resources and my knowledge 
and faceit does everything cool technically.
We can create a project 
where our players can progress and move on.
I'd like to see our players in English-speaking 
teams like in Dota Resolution.
I think it's cool and it's a breakthrough.
And CIS teams lack players, to tell the truth.
Something like that happened to Pro100. 
By the way, ceh9 became pro100 coach.
It's very cool, too, but we'll talk about it later.
Gambit just couldn't find a player. 
There are no good players.
Even in CIS a professional team 
can't find a young promising player.
In our League you can realize your potential 
and get to FPL and people might spot you.
We have properly set the priorities 
in the divisions.
And you'll see progress if you play 
and practise there. So visit our League.
We want to make something grand and cool.
Big thanks and respect to those still with us 
and who believe in us despite our losses.
Guys, thank you. The best is yet to come.
You need to lose, to feel and experience it and cry
so that then you take yourself in hand and move on.
It's not just plain words, I talk from my experience.
It means that today we need to lose and to experience it.
Those who are always with us, 
they'll support us no matter what.
Thank you, guys. We're moving on. 
I think everything will be alright.
Love and hugs to all of you. Bye.
Guys, subscribe not only to our League 
but also to our youtube channel.
No matter what we keep filming videos. By the way, 
many people say 'You film videos all the time'
That's all crap. 90% of my life are cs 
and only 10% I spend to relax and to film videos.
The rest is cs. So don't say that shit. 
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