James Banks opens up about beating after birthday party

Interviewer James Banks spoke of the beating after a birthday party in an Antwerp nightclub. Recall that the Briton celebrated his 32nd birthday last Friday, May 13.

I approached the taxi, a guy was walking towards me. He hit me on the head. I tried to stand up and figure out what was going on. The attacker immediately knocked down my leg, I fell to the ground, there were three guys. I couldn't get away so I did this[Banksshoweddefensivehandmovements]. They[begantobeat], one of them hit me in the balls. I felt like I was dying: I fell and passed out. Some guy ran up to me, he said to his mom: "This dude is unconscious."

The owner of the club called an ambulance, I woke up in the hospital. I was off.[When did you wake up?]At 13:00. When I woke up, I had no phone and no money. I went to the hotel and met Sasha[s1mple]. I told him: “Bro, you won’t believe what happened,” and he left the club a little earlier. To hell with this city[laughs].

It is reported that Banks was attacked by three people, one of them hit the 32-year-old Briton in the groin. There was also s1mple at the birthday party, who left the party a little early.

Banks is currently working at PGL Major Antwerp 2022 as an interviewer. In addition, the 32-year-old Brit recently became the manager of the Bad News Eagles, a Kosovar team that also took part in the major.

PGL Major Antwerp 2022 takes place from 9 to 22 May at the Antwerps Sportpaleis in Belgium. During the championship, 24 teams from Europe, the CIS, Asia, Oceania, North and South America are fighting for a prize pool of $1,000,000, ranking points in the EPT and BLAST Premier tables, as well as one ticket to BLAST Premier: World Final 2022.

Intermediate results of PGL Major Antwerp 2022

• 1st place: TBD.
• 2nd place: TBD.
• 3rd-4th place: TBD.
• 5th-8th place: TBD.
• 9th-11th place: Team Vitality, Imperial Esports and G2 Esports — $8,750.
• 12th-14th place: BIG, Outsiders and Cloud9 — $8,750.
• 15th-16th place: Team Liquid and Bad News Eagles - $8,750
• 17th-19th place: Astralis, MIBR and forZe.
• 20th-22nd place: IHC Esports, Complexity Gaming and Eternal Fire.
• 23rd-24th place: Renegades and 9z.