Personal Life
When and where were you born?
I was born on November, 11th, 1986 in the early morning in Kiev, Ukraine and still living here.
How were you as a little kid, were you active in sports?
When I was a small schoolboy I liked to run very much and i wished to become the fastest. I were competed with many kids and guys, and i wanted to find somebody who can overtake me. But my illusions have very quickly ended, when one guy had overtaken me, I was younger for 5 years than he. That day I had understood that desire not always such powerful as it seems =) Cause of my passion to run i was active in basketball at school, and even were playing football for 2 years.
Did you have any passion when you were kid?
I had a passion to different entertainment and still have it.
What did you want to do as a kid?
I dont remember actually. I was a kid and had a lot of dreams. Some silly and naive children’s dreams. For example to get ability of invisibility. =)
How did you imagine your future?
Dont remember
Did you get any big changes at a moment of your life?
Yeah. One day i started to play Counter-Strike and it was the real change =)
How does your family look like?
Father, Mother and two borthers. Other information is too inetersting for others and top secret =)
How was it to grow up in your family?
It was sometimes too usually and sometimes unexpectable, but sometimes even too especially. But i’ll tell the truth – it’s Something personal…
What high school did you go to and which majors did you take?
It was Klovsky Liceum. Pretty good school
Were you a good student or did you care more about having fun outside of school?
In the 1st period of studying i was a good student, but the life of the teenager is very seductive and it was really hard to Stop me from having fun. Frankly sometimes i regret abou it.
Did you win any prizes or were you selected for a national team?
Nope, i didnt win any prizes.
What do you do during your free time?
Trying to find some entertainment or making something useful. Usually i’m trying to grant all accessible to me desires ;P
Do you have any girlfriend?
I had, but at present day there are no love relationships.
How does she react when she see you playing Counter Strike?
She were cheering me =)

Do you watch any TV series?
Yeah I watch stupid “Prison Break” just to know how this delirium will end, also growing “Heroes” and incredible “LOST”, there is nothing that could be compared with it.
Do you prefer light type of alcohol like beer or some hard ones like vodka?
I’m not drink so much but when there is an occasion it can be either vodka or beer. Not only these drinks. I mean it can be either light or hard.
What is your favorite club or disco?
I have no favorite disco, cause I’m not an inveterate disco man, but I love dance and party ;P
When you’re going in the club do you dance or you just stay at your table?
I need to use some alcohol before dancing or to lose for a bet; It’s very seldom when I’m dance without any reason. Only if i have a really sincere mood because of some nice music or i lost my mind =)
Computers
When did you first get in contact with computers?
At home, my father had to work with it and it became my friend ;P
Do you have any good memories from consoles like Nintendo or Sega?
Yeah i were playing lot of games on Sega and Nintendo. That was real fun, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, some games like resident evil and one game at playstation – it was silent hill. It was really crazy game.
What was the first contact with a personal computer like?
It was an opening of new opportunities . The new opportunities of wasting the time =)
When did you get in contact with FPS games?
Not so long after got contact with PC.
Tell us how your first few times went when you were playing CS?
I were playing wihtout strafes, and my favourite weapon was binelli. I were coming into a back to snipers, jumping on them and were cleaning their heads with binelli.
Did you enjoy playing publics just running around and fragging?
Nope.I hate that thing. I’m playing only „DeathmatchMode“ or very very seldom „Public mode“ only to improve my aim.
Where does your nickname come from?
When i played first time Half-life i were playing with nickname „empty“ and were playing without strafes. In a few times of playing i found customize and started to think about nickname. I was 12 years old and watched the movie „Blade“. That film was really popular at that time. When i wrote it many people had estimated it adequately and i I have been satisfied. When i grew up i understood that there is nothing original in that nickname and not enough secret sense. Even worse that there were too many „blades“, so i decide to make my nickname unique. I wrote B1ad3, many peaple trying to read „1“ like „i“, but in english transcription rules letter „L“ written as „1“, almost identical symbols. Anyway i dont care, cause there is only one „B“ „1“ „a“ „d“ „3“, Isn’t it? =))
When did you get into a team?
It was at my first tournament in the internet cafe. The name of my team was PIZDEC.
Did you just play matches with your first team or were there already training sessions with tactics etc?
I were just playing matches with my team…
How long did it take before you were the better player in the team or were you never the better one?
I knew that i was the best in the team at the beginning, cause it was „Meat-team“. There were too less good players.
How soon did you get to know about eSports and major events with money?
In a few time i heard about esport community and pro-level of gaming. I was very surprised and maybe even impressed at that time.
When you started playing CS did you ever feel a bit embarrassed for spending all that time behind the PC?
Yeah i often feeling that, so i’m trying to win the world ;P
What hardware did you start playing with?
It was really shitty hardware, i even cant remember configuration.
When did you start taking notice of your HZ, FPS etc?
When i got into high level team they told me about all those details which help you to play more comfortable.
Did you ever ask other players for advice or for some training?
Nope, i have never made that.
Do you think you were talented or did you just play quite a lot and on a high level?
Don’t know. Cause i can be too self-confident, so ist hard to answer. But for sure i’m not a simple guy: X-ray vision, ability to read minds that’s all my qualities! :D
Is there any scene or match which you remember from your early days when you weren’t known yet?
Yep. When I was a young gamer I got to a top2 team from top10. There was a national tournament with all skilled teams, but it wasn’t a problem for me. I had really mad frags and we placed 1st. I was satisfied. Later I understand that sometimes you need to rely on your teammates, you should trust them, that’s important thing.
eSports
When did you get your first contact with the eSports and how were your feelings about it?
I cant remember the cetain day and moment but feelings were good…
Were you impressed by some players or team?
Yeah. I were impressed by one player. It was Mr.froD from coL. Actually the greatest player. And also i was impressed by LeX from Virtus.pro. The person which will prove to anyone that the desire is capable of great things. It’s true but only if it’s truly real desire from your heart!
Were you fan of a team or a player particulary?
Nope. I have never been a fan of team or a player.
Could you take us through all your past clans with some words on the team, results, why did you join why did you leave?
My first team was [PIZDEC] – just a meat team of friends. Then i joined Eagles, then scorpions – they were a little bit better then [PIZDEC]. Then i joined team born2party (b2p) – it was top2 team and it collapsed soon, has brokened up. Then it was team „Treez“ (3z) – really funny clan with nice people. I had played lot of time with TreezZ. It was like a school of CS for me there. And after TreezZ, when it also had broken up, i joined to DIOsoft - The clan of crazy aimers with self-confident players. It wasn’t good to play there i think but we were top1 of ukraine for a long time. Then i left DIOsoft with „weiss“ and make a new team with other players „strike“, „starix“ and „eshkin“. The name was NetworkTechnology. As Name of the sponsor which promised too much but hadn’t made anything. So i were thinking about new name and also we founf a manager, very good person and friend, Anna „Miu“ Danilyak. I thought up the name „Amazing“ and added to it more sense with word „gaming“. Tag was looking really good and everyone were agree. So on 21th of April , 2005, we creat this cyber project.

In which team did you take the most pleasure to play?
In my current team – Amazing Gaming.
Can you explain us what is your role in game?
I am the captain in the team. I think out tactics, coordinate my team during the game, analyze mistakes of all players and give them corresponding advice, stop quarrels during the game and pracctime, also i encourage my guys when I see that their hopes start to die away and even when hope is absolutely not present they can trust to each other. Of course I try to play a little bit cs with them… ;P
About A-Gaming, how did you come in the team?
Just come as other players. By my own legs…Or they come to me. Who knows =)
How were you feeling in the team when you joined it?
I were feeling Hopefully, cause all players were skilled and talanted.
How much time did you need to integrate yourself in the team?
I have a good status of player, Therefore many of players were not against to play with me. I have been assured of them , and they have been assured of me. That’s the key to success ;P
How was the environment of the team?
It was perfect at first time, we were and we are still very friendly either in game or in the real life.
Did you saw any changes since you started in the team?
Nope, cause it was a new team.
You now played against the bests teams in the world, in your opinion which one is the best one and why?
There is no the best team in the world. There are a lot of good teams and all of them serially try to win superiority.
Which are your best and your worst experience with counter strike?
The best experience was to lose the most stupid game and to realise the most stupid faults, one time were enough form to understand a lot of things. I dont remember that game, but definitely it was. The worst experience was to win the easiest game with too big score, cause i didn’t recieve any experience. The real victory is ending at the last moment. And the most honourable victory for me is a victory in one round. When overweight in the score is too great, shine of your victory grows dull, and there is a sensation that it was useless to play. I’m talking about serious match with strong team.
How do your family react, seeing that you are a counter strike players known from all arround the world and that you spend so much time playing?
They support me. First they were against and arranged scandals, but in due course when I began to win not only in Ukraine they have changed the attitude. And when i have placed 3rd at WCG2007 they were really happy and now keeping deeeeep silence about games ;D
How did your parents and family react when you told them you would go to another country to play Counter-Strike for an event?
They didn’t react at all. I’m not a small boy and like to travel a lot so they also supported me. Of course it was strange for them in first period, cause to play in computer game in other city, for WHAT? It was out of their mind.
Do you have some good friends and contacts with some players who are living far from you?
Yeah I have lot of contacts and lot of friends from other countries. Esport community is pulls everyone together. That’s great!
How did you get in contact with these players?
Contact ??? Hmmm. Sometimes from IRC, sometimes from steam-gaming. Lot of contacts from your site by the way (www.sk-gaming.com – free commercial for retards). Lot friends from LAN tournaments.
Did you get some other experience than playing counter strike with that kind of friends?
Yeah. Lot of experience. Lot Experience of getting real fun! Experience of drinking at the parties maybe, or they got some from me ;D
Do you think that the esports scene from Ukraine is over many other European countries?
No. I don’t think so. Our scene isn’t so large, but pretty big.
Now let’s talk a little bit about your biggest achievement until now. The 3rd place in Seattle /USA, at World Cyber Games 2007. Please talk a bit about the matches and about the experience at this year's tournament.
We had the hard way to the 3rd place. Last map with team Roccat was incredible, when we got last round I have felt something not explainable. Infinite joy and pride, personal pride and pride of my team and country. When we were playing semi-finals with emulate we trusted that we can win, but we had no confidence of that. We didn’t have enough of victorious experience, each of us understood to what we were moving, moving to the top. But nobody could realize what will happen if we will win. That was very valuable experience for us. The game with eMg, and I am telling the truth, wasn’t so important for us as games with emulate and roccat. I was confident in our victory over them. We won our worth map – de_nuke, but we didn’t expect that. Anyway we knew that we will win 2 others. Inferno was our best map and train I have studied while they played with us in group and with Russians. We have no such great motivation with eMg, It can be seen if having looked the game, It was not so dynamical and emotional. Anyway it’s just an “imho”.

What are the next tournaments where we’ll see A-Gaming?
We will try to attend KODE5, and then we’ll see.
Any plans for the next WCG from Germany? Do you want to achieve more than this year?
We will practice hard, this year really hard. This tournament collects the strongest commands of the world, and it will be really hard this year. We will try to receive the place we will deserve.
Thanks a lot for your time and good luck for the upcoming events. Any last shout outs?
Thanks SK-gaming for best community and good luck for the future. Never give up, everything is possible. And don’t hasten to win; sometimes it can be very harmful.
When and where were you born?
I was born on November, 11th, 1986 in the early morning in Kiev, Ukraine and still living here.
How were you as a little kid, were you active in sports?
When I was a small schoolboy I liked to run very much and i wished to become the fastest. I were competed with many kids and guys, and i wanted to find somebody who can overtake me. But my illusions have very quickly ended, when one guy had overtaken me, I was younger for 5 years than he. That day I had understood that desire not always such powerful as it seems =) Cause of my passion to run i was active in basketball at school, and even were playing football for 2 years.
Did you have any passion when you were kid?
I had a passion to different entertainment and still have it.
What did you want to do as a kid?
I dont remember actually. I was a kid and had a lot of dreams. Some silly and naive children’s dreams. For example to get ability of invisibility. =)
How did you imagine your future?
Dont remember
Did you get any big changes at a moment of your life?
Yeah. One day i started to play Counter-Strike and it was the real change =)
How does your family look like?
Father, Mother and two borthers. Other information is too inetersting for others and top secret =)
How was it to grow up in your family?
It was sometimes too usually and sometimes unexpectable, but sometimes even too especially. But i’ll tell the truth – it’s Something personal…
What high school did you go to and which majors did you take?
It was Klovsky Liceum. Pretty good school
Were you a good student or did you care more about having fun outside of school?
In the 1st period of studying i was a good student, but the life of the teenager is very seductive and it was really hard to Stop me from having fun. Frankly sometimes i regret abou it.
Did you win any prizes or were you selected for a national team?
Nope, i didnt win any prizes.
What do you do during your free time?
Trying to find some entertainment or making something useful. Usually i’m trying to grant all accessible to me desires ;P
Do you have any girlfriend?
I had, but at present day there are no love relationships.
How does she react when she see you playing Counter Strike?
She were cheering me =)

Do you watch any TV series?
Yeah I watch stupid “Prison Break” just to know how this delirium will end, also growing “Heroes” and incredible “LOST”, there is nothing that could be compared with it.
Do you prefer light type of alcohol like beer or some hard ones like vodka?
I’m not drink so much but when there is an occasion it can be either vodka or beer. Not only these drinks. I mean it can be either light or hard.
What is your favorite club or disco?
I have no favorite disco, cause I’m not an inveterate disco man, but I love dance and party ;P
When you’re going in the club do you dance or you just stay at your table?
I need to use some alcohol before dancing or to lose for a bet; It’s very seldom when I’m dance without any reason. Only if i have a really sincere mood because of some nice music or i lost my mind =)
Computers
When did you first get in contact with computers?
At home, my father had to work with it and it became my friend ;P
Do you have any good memories from consoles like Nintendo or Sega?
Yeah i were playing lot of games on Sega and Nintendo. That was real fun, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, some games like resident evil and one game at playstation – it was silent hill. It was really crazy game.
"When i played first time Half-life i were playing with nickname „empty“ and were playing without strafes. In a few times of playing i found customize and started to think about nickname. I was 12 years old and watched the movie „Blade“."
What was the first contact with a personal computer like?
It was an opening of new opportunities . The new opportunities of wasting the time =)
When did you get in contact with FPS games?
Not so long after got contact with PC.
Tell us how your first few times went when you were playing CS?
I were playing wihtout strafes, and my favourite weapon was binelli. I were coming into a back to snipers, jumping on them and were cleaning their heads with binelli.
Did you enjoy playing publics just running around and fragging?
Nope.I hate that thing. I’m playing only „DeathmatchMode“ or very very seldom „Public mode“ only to improve my aim.
Where does your nickname come from?
When i played first time Half-life i were playing with nickname „empty“ and were playing without strafes. In a few times of playing i found customize and started to think about nickname. I was 12 years old and watched the movie „Blade“. That film was really popular at that time. When i wrote it many people had estimated it adequately and i I have been satisfied. When i grew up i understood that there is nothing original in that nickname and not enough secret sense. Even worse that there were too many „blades“, so i decide to make my nickname unique. I wrote B1ad3, many peaple trying to read „1“ like „i“, but in english transcription rules letter „L“ written as „1“, almost identical symbols. Anyway i dont care, cause there is only one „B“ „1“ „a“ „d“ „3“, Isn’t it? =))
When did you get into a team?
It was at my first tournament in the internet cafe. The name of my team was PIZDEC.
Did you just play matches with your first team or were there already training sessions with tactics etc?
I were just playing matches with my team…
How long did it take before you were the better player in the team or were you never the better one?
I knew that i was the best in the team at the beginning, cause it was „Meat-team“. There were too less good players.
How soon did you get to know about eSports and major events with money?
In a few time i heard about esport community and pro-level of gaming. I was very surprised and maybe even impressed at that time.
When you started playing CS did you ever feel a bit embarrassed for spending all that time behind the PC?
Yeah i often feeling that, so i’m trying to win the world ;P
What hardware did you start playing with?
It was really shitty hardware, i even cant remember configuration.
When did you start taking notice of your HZ, FPS etc?
When i got into high level team they told me about all those details which help you to play more comfortable.
Did you ever ask other players for advice or for some training?
Nope, i have never made that.
Do you think you were talented or did you just play quite a lot and on a high level?
Don’t know. Cause i can be too self-confident, so ist hard to answer. But for sure i’m not a simple guy: X-ray vision, ability to read minds that’s all my qualities! :D
Is there any scene or match which you remember from your early days when you weren’t known yet?
Yep. When I was a young gamer I got to a top2 team from top10. There was a national tournament with all skilled teams, but it wasn’t a problem for me. I had really mad frags and we placed 1st. I was satisfied. Later I understand that sometimes you need to rely on your teammates, you should trust them, that’s important thing.
eSports
When did you get your first contact with the eSports and how were your feelings about it?
I cant remember the cetain day and moment but feelings were good…
Were you impressed by some players or team?
Yeah. I were impressed by one player. It was Mr.froD from coL. Actually the greatest player. And also i was impressed by LeX from Virtus.pro. The person which will prove to anyone that the desire is capable of great things. It’s true but only if it’s truly real desire from your heart!
Were you fan of a team or a player particulary?
Nope. I have never been a fan of team or a player.
Could you take us through all your past clans with some words on the team, results, why did you join why did you leave?
My first team was [PIZDEC] – just a meat team of friends. Then i joined Eagles, then scorpions – they were a little bit better then [PIZDEC]. Then i joined team born2party (b2p) – it was top2 team and it collapsed soon, has brokened up. Then it was team „Treez“ (3z) – really funny clan with nice people. I had played lot of time with TreezZ. It was like a school of CS for me there. And after TreezZ, when it also had broken up, i joined to DIOsoft - The clan of crazy aimers with self-confident players. It wasn’t good to play there i think but we were top1 of ukraine for a long time. Then i left DIOsoft with „weiss“ and make a new team with other players „strike“, „starix“ and „eshkin“. The name was NetworkTechnology. As Name of the sponsor which promised too much but hadn’t made anything. So i were thinking about new name and also we founf a manager, very good person and friend, Anna „Miu“ Danilyak. I thought up the name „Amazing“ and added to it more sense with word „gaming“. Tag was looking really good and everyone were agree. So on 21th of April , 2005, we creat this cyber project.

In which team did you take the most pleasure to play?
In my current team – Amazing Gaming.
Can you explain us what is your role in game?
I am the captain in the team. I think out tactics, coordinate my team during the game, analyze mistakes of all players and give them corresponding advice, stop quarrels during the game and pracctime, also i encourage my guys when I see that their hopes start to die away and even when hope is absolutely not present they can trust to each other. Of course I try to play a little bit cs with them… ;P
"The worst experience was to win the easiest game with too big score, cause i didn’t recieve any experience. The real victory is ending at the last moment. And the most honourable victory for me is a victory in one round. When overweight in the score is too great, shine of your victory grows dull, and there is a sensation that it was useless to play. I’m talking about serious match with strong team."
About A-Gaming, how did you come in the team?
Just come as other players. By my own legs…Or they come to me. Who knows =)
How were you feeling in the team when you joined it?
I were feeling Hopefully, cause all players were skilled and talanted.
How much time did you need to integrate yourself in the team?
I have a good status of player, Therefore many of players were not against to play with me. I have been assured of them , and they have been assured of me. That’s the key to success ;P
How was the environment of the team?
It was perfect at first time, we were and we are still very friendly either in game or in the real life.
Did you saw any changes since you started in the team?
Nope, cause it was a new team.
You now played against the bests teams in the world, in your opinion which one is the best one and why?
There is no the best team in the world. There are a lot of good teams and all of them serially try to win superiority.
Which are your best and your worst experience with counter strike?
The best experience was to lose the most stupid game and to realise the most stupid faults, one time were enough form to understand a lot of things. I dont remember that game, but definitely it was. The worst experience was to win the easiest game with too big score, cause i didn’t recieve any experience. The real victory is ending at the last moment. And the most honourable victory for me is a victory in one round. When overweight in the score is too great, shine of your victory grows dull, and there is a sensation that it was useless to play. I’m talking about serious match with strong team.
How do your family react, seeing that you are a counter strike players known from all arround the world and that you spend so much time playing?
They support me. First they were against and arranged scandals, but in due course when I began to win not only in Ukraine they have changed the attitude. And when i have placed 3rd at WCG2007 they were really happy and now keeping deeeeep silence about games ;D
How did your parents and family react when you told them you would go to another country to play Counter-Strike for an event?
They didn’t react at all. I’m not a small boy and like to travel a lot so they also supported me. Of course it was strange for them in first period, cause to play in computer game in other city, for WHAT? It was out of their mind.
Do you have some good friends and contacts with some players who are living far from you?
Yeah I have lot of contacts and lot of friends from other countries. Esport community is pulls everyone together. That’s great!
How did you get in contact with these players?
Contact ??? Hmmm. Sometimes from IRC, sometimes from steam-gaming. Lot of contacts from your site by the way (www.sk-gaming.com – free commercial for retards). Lot friends from LAN tournaments.
Did you get some other experience than playing counter strike with that kind of friends?
Yeah. Lot of experience. Lot Experience of getting real fun! Experience of drinking at the parties maybe, or they got some from me ;D
Do you think that the esports scene from Ukraine is over many other European countries?
No. I don’t think so. Our scene isn’t so large, but pretty big.
"We had the hard way to the 3rd place. Last map with team Roccat was incredible, when we got last round I have felt something not explainable. Infinite joy and pride, personal pride and pride of my team and country"
Now let’s talk a little bit about your biggest achievement until now. The 3rd place in Seattle /USA, at World Cyber Games 2007. Please talk a bit about the matches and about the experience at this year's tournament.
We had the hard way to the 3rd place. Last map with team Roccat was incredible, when we got last round I have felt something not explainable. Infinite joy and pride, personal pride and pride of my team and country. When we were playing semi-finals with emulate we trusted that we can win, but we had no confidence of that. We didn’t have enough of victorious experience, each of us understood to what we were moving, moving to the top. But nobody could realize what will happen if we will win. That was very valuable experience for us. The game with eMg, and I am telling the truth, wasn’t so important for us as games with emulate and roccat. I was confident in our victory over them. We won our worth map – de_nuke, but we didn’t expect that. Anyway we knew that we will win 2 others. Inferno was our best map and train I have studied while they played with us in group and with Russians. We have no such great motivation with eMg, It can be seen if having looked the game, It was not so dynamical and emotional. Anyway it’s just an “imho”.

What are the next tournaments where we’ll see A-Gaming?
We will try to attend KODE5, and then we’ll see.
Any plans for the next WCG from Germany? Do you want to achieve more than this year?
We will practice hard, this year really hard. This tournament collects the strongest commands of the world, and it will be really hard this year. We will try to receive the place we will deserve.
Thanks a lot for your time and good luck for the upcoming events. Any last shout outs?
Thanks SK-gaming for best community and good luck for the future. Never give up, everything is possible. And don’t hasten to win; sometimes it can be very harmful.

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