Natus Vincere advance to playoffs by beating fnatic

22-1-2018 23:53

Natus Vincere grabbed their third win of the New Legends Stage and booked a ticket for Boston by defeating fnatic 16-7 on Inferno.

Starting on the CT side, Natus Vincere was the team to grab the early control of the match. They won the pistol and two followups, as well as the second buy round, which broke fnatic economy right after Freddy "⁠KRIMZ⁠" Johansson and Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell clutched out a 2v4.

Natus Vincere went on to grab a 7-1 lead before fnatic could add their second, but Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev showed up to get an early AWP entry on banana after that, stopping the Swedish side from getting any momentum. Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev started the 11th round with a tripple kill, KRIMZ replied with one of his own, but his clutch attempt was denied by patient play from Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov (9-2).

Zeus' team did the majority of the work on the defensive side of Inferno

The first half finished with Natus Vincere having a giant 12-3 lead, s1mple started the second one with a great P250 headshot, but fnatic recovered in the 4v5 to grab the second pistol round. Natus Vincere pressured their opponents with consecutive force buys, finally breaking them with a fast mid push, making the score 13.7.

Natus Vincere followed that round up, taking back the control of the game, and with both the economy and the momentum on their side, didn't have a tough time closing out the game 16-7 in the end.

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22nd January 2018

Natus Vincere

Inferno

fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	19 - 18	+1	83.7	69.6%	1.04
Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Lekr0	15 - 20	-5	72.2	60.9%	0.86
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	12 - 19	-7	67.3	60.9%	0.80
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	11 - 20	-9	69.6	60.9%	0.74
Maikil 'Golden' Selim Golden	6 - 21	-15	45.4	52.2%	0.47

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	25 - 13	+12	105.7	87.0%	1.65
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	25 - 13	+12	110.3	82.6%	1.61
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	16 - 11	+5	68.8	95.7%	1.27
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Zeus	18 - 16	+2	88.2	78.3%	1.12
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	13 - 11	+2	60.0	87.0%	1.12

Qualified
G2		FaZe
Quantum Bellator Fire		SK
Natus Vincere
2-2
MOUZ		Space Soldiers
Cloud9		Vega Squadron
Gambit		fnatic
Eliminated
North		Virtus.pro
BIG		Astralis
Liquid

gg CONGRATZ NAVI! FASTEST DWARF ON HLTV!

2018-01-22 23:54

12 replies

1 reply

aHaahahAha

2018-01-22 23:55

NaVi cant do it in bo3

9 replies

already did it with a mix team: hltv.org/matches/2317593/ukraine-vs-fnat.. LUL

2018-01-22 23:57

6 replies

... brollan is playing stop trying

2018-01-22 23:58

5 replies

and bondik&markeloff. cry is free

4 replies

??? you arent making your argument any better

2018-01-22 23:59

3 replies

you are not either lul. Na`Vi wtihout 2 main players and fnatic without only 1, i bet you can add 2+2 here.

2018-01-23 00:00

2 replies

2018-01-23 00:01

Cry is free

Soo free

2018-01-23 00:14

NaVi back to the top

feelsbadman

sad

fnatic take next match

Nope

Gambit washed up dosias stomach so big he cant reach keyboard and mouse cause cant get close enough to desk.

2018-01-23 00:05

Rip

2018-01-23 00:11

yeah i mean i feel as a professional player that might actually be a problem in the long run you feel me?

2018-01-23 00:13

He needs to work out with pasha since pasha has more time on his hands

2018-01-23 00:15

at least legend spot

well played

rip vega & ss although they will probably go against each other because we are unlocko

guess today is your lucky day

Guess so

Ufff

nice to see Na'Vi getting Legends status back, s1mple deserves it

flag aint check out

do you mean the Fnatic flair? yeah not happy about Fnatic losing, but it is nice to see Na'Vi become Legends again after the Krakow shitfest

well i really liked fnatic knocking navi out of krakow. #neverforget

2018-01-23 00:04

2018-01-23 07:07

Guardian was the problem kappa Zeus was the soluttion

s1mple is a god

expected

Ggwp

Good job boys <3

nt KRiMZ

Edward was insane today! Ggwp. I still don't understand why fnatic did choose terrorist side???

ez.

Lets go space soldiers! Lets go boys

4 LEGEND TEAMS ELIMINATED, AND 4 CHALLENGER TEAM ADVANCED TO PLAYOFF LOL

Ez 4 NaVi

Great to see Zeus and Simple rising together. If they fix they game with eletronic firepower +edward experience and flamie suporting this line can really go huge. I cheer for Navi since 2010, the team i consider still the best ever!

+1 bruh

wow not expected

2018-01-22 23:56

sad any team will fuck them 16-1 in 1/4

haters gonna hate

It's going to be Gambit-Vega, Mousesports-C9, and Fnatic-SpaceSoldiers

Flamie has been rolling back the years this tournament Its been good to watch

Well played Na'Vi!

Flamie: um.. hello

yeet

fnatic ty kurwo bez szkoly jebane bezmozgi

NICE LA

cant wait to see they get 2x0ed at the first bo3 to laugh at s1mple fanbois xD #s1mpledestroyednavi

10 replies

calm your tits

2018-01-23 00:02

mark this threat :>

8 replies

vs qbfire .. dont think its gonna be 2-0 =)

2018-01-23 09:21

7 replies

well, they got a t3 team... lets see after that =p I mean... the time they get a real team will be a 2x0, mark this threat :>

2018-01-23 09:50

youre fucking dumb

2018-01-26 21:20

reported cant accept facts and start crying LMAO

calm down

2018-01-26 22:08

you are the one mad af, calling me "fucking dumb" LUL

2018-01-26 22:12

seems like you respond to my messages to quick , can you leave hltv for at least an hour ?

2018-01-26 22:14

no hltv isnt a forum, is a way of life. #HLTVarmy

2018-01-26 22:50

Zeus i Edward sobrali ramu! Poryado4no. Teper only 1st place.

EZ 4 EDWARD AKA INFERNO KING

Eliminated: North - expected & deserved Virtus.pro - sad BIG - sad, I wanted to see some solid German team Astralis - sad, wtf is going on with them? Do they need to replace IGLs every couple of years to not suck? FeTiSh, karrigan, now gla1ve? Liquid - no ELiGE carrying hard - no win.

JDM needs to leave. Even a Zews had more impact on key rounds than him.

a zews?

2018-01-23 01:05

A coach*. I thought about him thats why I wrote Zews ;p

2018-01-23 01:09

"Virtus.pro - sad" why sad? it's not like they have shown some good cs... they were eliminated hard by tier2-3 teams even.

2018-01-23 07:06

Didn't say it wasn't deserved, but it's still sad, because legends shouldn't get rekt that way. I know NiP didn't ever get to the qualifiers, but it still suxx to see how those giants get defeated so hard. I want them to come back stronger, but I doubt they will not retire after IEM Katowice.

2018-01-23 10:40