Blizzcon 2016

So where do I begin..



It was my first time to the states and I couldn't wish for a more amazing journey, blizzcon was absolutely insane! A memory I'm taking to the grave



In opening week everything was so interesting and fun. To start meeting all the people from the other regions, over the first couple of days as we started scrimming we got to know zero panda abit, was kinda hard to bond because the language difference limited that, but we scrimmed them and picked up a few Chinese words aswell as laughed over the little English we could talked together. As the days swooshed by we started scrimming BLX the most and bonded really well with them, even tho it's hard to communicate we got a good connection as both tried as good as possible, I'm basically a sin(God) at Korean now LUL

It was really nice that we broke the barrier and started talking alot to other teams/regions, any ways the scrim/practice experience was amazing, all from scrims vs any team to NA hl was good due to the fact that everybody was playing hl together! I feel we as a team can take a lot from this whole journey! We did really good in scrims aswell as the tourney obv, I think we influenced other regions a lot with what we brought going into the tournament and how we showcased it from scrims to the actual tournament, as well as how much kr influenced us on game-level as well as outside the game! As I mentioned we are really good friends with esp BLX so I'm really happy that they became the world champions!



Hotels and hospitality from blizzard was insane! The blizz employees and all ppl involved was extremely professional, funny and friendly and I Can't believe we got solo rooms that in my eyes are big enough for the whole team pretty much 😝



As the tournament begun we started of really shaky, but managed to get through the group stage, so at this point I think we were all really happy but felt that we were not done due to how we preformed and were kinda confident that we could get way further if we just "stepped it up" wich we did as we played zero panda to secure a 5-6th place, so once again we take the next step and feel we are doing great no matter what happens now we are proud of the result but we are not done because we had saved a lot of good strategies and still felt we had more to give. So going into the series vs zero panda again we pretty much went all out to earn ourself the top 4 spot as we beat them again in a tight series with some stinky cheese, at this point once again we were super happy about what we had accomplished and was ready to just drop dead to the kr overlords known as mvp black!



At this point everything changed, usually you feel a lot of pressure not only because you wanna perform and show your everything and the big big crowd (5k live?) + twitch any ways we were already so proud at this point and as I said we were so ready for our journey to be over so we felt no pressure and just said to ourself we go up there do our thing it might be enough they are only human and even if the odds are stacked against us, and even if we lose 3-0 it doesn't matter for shit! With this said playing with out any pressure/expectations made us play out of our minds while for them it was the opposite, they are expected to win!



But it would not be possible without the crowd, the crowd carried us as we strive a lot on momentum! When we actually won the first game vs mvp in the series we were as happy as if we won a tournament, we stand up scream, dance, do our shit and look out to a crowd with 5k ppl standing up screaming chanting Fnatic! You can't even imagine the feels we all got, I am getting goose bumps just writing about it haha, as the series progress and ppl are screaming Fnatic, chanting QUACK and all that shit we get so pumped but still without any pressure on ourselfs so thank you all for making it possible to beat mvpblack!! As we win the series we are all in chock it's once again like winning the tournament itself for us! And looking out at the crowd and once again seeing the everybosy from the front to the back standing up clapping, screaming etc! Holy moly you guys are the real MVPS. ❤️☺️😘



Going into the finals we tried to have the same attitude, saying to ourself we have come sooooooo far what ever happens doesn't matter but we kinda started to face reality and felt we actually had a shot to win the whole thing 😜 all a sudden the pressure comes back as 150.000 dollar and the title of being the best team in the world is on the line! As the games starts we are happy with the first 2 drafts/games we played fairly good but not at the level we did in the semis, I feel both game 1 and 2 could have gone either way if we played it a bit better but we were the ones making the crucial mistakes as they are the better team. especially the sky game in my eyes could really have gone either way with some clutch plays, going into potentially the last game we mix stuff up, time to gamble a bit and pick up Tass tracer (not really our comfort) and that game must have been quite a show! Can't wait to watch the vod myself! We came back strong and I myself played insanely good I feel, and we win that game and start to get momentum and believing again, that didn't last to long but overall it felt amazing and I am really happy for BLX they are the well deserved crowned world champions of the nexus for now 😉



One last big shoutout to everyone making blizzcon to the experience it was. Thank you players around the world, casters, blizzard Employees, fans and ofc my teamates! ❤️



I hope and think we made EU proud? 2 place is not to shabby 😝🏆



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