Natus Vincere beat FaZe in two maps; to semi-finals

17-5-2018 21:24

Natus Vincere beat FaZe in two maps, 16-12 on Mirage and 16-12 on Nuke, to qualify straight to the semi-finals.

The series kicked off on Mirage, FaZe’s pick, but it was Natus Vincere that jumped first out of the gate, winning the pistol round and anti-ecos shredding the Ts apart. The lead didn’t last long, however, as FaZe started winning round after round once their economy stabilized and they had guns to a 4-4 lead. Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko then clutched a 1vs2 on B to get his team back on the lead, but after FaZe brought it back to 5-5 Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard then got a four-kill round to get the European combine back in the lead.

The half went to FaZe, by the slimmest of margins, but lost the pistol round. Up 10-8, Zeus came in big with three kills to make his team's lead larger. It wasn’t until the seventh round in the half that FaZe could take a round, trailing 13-9 by then. FaZe got three more rounds, spearheaded by rain who ended the map with 30 frags and 90 ADR, but not enough to stop Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev & co. who cruised to a 16-12 first map win.

Natus Vincere beat FaZe to clinch a spot in the semi-finals

The first round of Nuke went to Natus Vincere, who exploded on A and deleted FaZe off of the map. Having won the anti-ecos, s1mple & co. were then able to take the first gun round and following anti-eco for a 6-0 lead, while FaZe struggled to build an economy. Finally, FaZe were able to win a 4vs3 afterplant as Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen took out two and defused while Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács got the last frag. That round started a comeback from the European team, who then went on to win every round completely shutting Natus Vincere down to take the lead into the second half.

The second pistol round also went to Natus Vincere, making it four out of four in the series. After the anti-ecos, which gave Natus Vincere a 10-8 lead, FaZe quickly took the A round on the first gun round to bring it back within one. A solid defense by Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev with a double opening kill and s1mple with another double denied FaZe the follow-up and reset the European team. The Ukrainian-Russian side then started to run away with it getting on match point, 15-9. FaZe then strung a couple rounds together, getting it to 12, but Natus Vincere finally closed it out to take the better spot in the playoffs.

ESL Pro League Season 7 FinalsBest of 3

FaZe

Matchpage

17th May 2018

Natus Vincere

Mirage

Nuke

FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	46 - 38	+8	79.3	67.9%	1.11
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	40 - 44	-4	88.7	71.4%	1.08
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	35 - 40	-5	69.6	75.0%	1.00
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács GuardiaN	34 - 39	-5	63.6	67.9%	0.87
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	27 - 39	-12	57.2	62.5%	0.79

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	54 - 34	+20	96.2	78.6%	1.47
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	43 - 38	+5	76.9	67.9%	1.08
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Zeus	34 - 37	-3	75.7	67.9%	1.07
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	33 - 37	-4	72.8	69.6%	1.03
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	36 - 36	0	71.0	67.9%	1.00

good game but s1mple was afk sadly :(

2018-05-17 21:25

8 replies

#RUNVG.FG

3 replies

EXPECTED

2018-05-17 21:30

1 reply

Expected

2018-05-17 21:34

Expected from Jasper "TwoFaced" Toiletto

2018-05-17 21:37

2018-05-17 21:32

Cant solo carry every single game can he

2018-05-17 22:04

1 of 99999 he stopped carrying like a Demon and you say he was AFK xD

2018-05-17 23:07

2018-05-18 12:51

lol

2018-05-17 21:24

ez for NAVI

Cool Edit: where the fuck did 3rd go lol Edit #2: what's wrong with the comments

3rd got deleted because racism or edit

2018-05-17 21:57

2 replies

Hmm, ok. Admins with the supersonic speed

2018-05-17 21:58

And/or site monitoring bots

2018-05-17 21:59

expected

S1mple >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ChoKo Na`Vi >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eZaF Clowns

+1>>>>>>>>>-1

2018-05-17 21:35

+1!

2018-05-17 23:06

Damn

ez 4 s1mple

Na`Vi are solid top1-3 team atm. Faze are just clowns tho.

Clowns that won iem sydney, gj buddy atleast make some sense

2018-05-17 23:03

The hell dude bc in one event guardian and niko didnt have form it means they clawns ? The fuck + they lose to top 3 team atm xdd u expecting them winning 16:0 to not be clawns or what xd

2018-05-17 23:34

gj buddy

2018-05-18 02:31

EZZZZZZZ

A very s1mple win carrying his team once again.

2018-05-17 21:27

19th

2018-05-17 21:26

I was too fast...

2018-05-17 22:07

Lel

expected.

bring back olof xizt igl

Just embarrassing form from faze :) Looks just like they did pre Sydney finals.

Lmao

ez 4 electronic

FAZE DOWN! LUL

electronic playing very good rn

+1 electroNic new #CSGOD maybe.

yea, but s1mple always top 1 ;)

2018-05-18 08:41

true :)

2018-05-18 09:33

ez CSGOD!! Very nice from electronic

Pleasure to see Na`Vi playing calm, smart and with amazing skills which they have! Love you, proud Na`Vi fan since the middle of 2009's roster. S1mple > FaZe electronic >>> FaZe

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+1 so glad to see Na'Vi back in form Top 3 team ez

2018-05-17 21:29

++++, Navi is back

Me too bro , Zeus the best igl ever and one of the funniest person I know , waiting for his vlog )))

2018-05-17 21:45

l))))

2018-05-17 23:05

ez vs clan with 2 IGLs

ez vs clan who win last tournament 3-0 vs astralis

2018-05-17 21:28

Electronic so gooood.god play on mirage b site

GJ Navi

Even electronic >>> ChoKo

Damn Navi looks scary now, dat much firepower with elec and s1mple +flam1e solid rifler and Zeus 200iq strats, even Edward can be good support. Major winner potential there.

2018-05-17 21:31

Agreed, long time since navi has been a realistic major winner. Maybe during 2016 ?

If Edward has to go, markeloff would be a fucking blockbuster addition from FlipSide.

2018-05-19 03:45

id much rather have bondik, but i think they should keep edward until at least after major, edward is a big reason navi is so good on inferno

2018-05-19 03:59

Lets go NAVI!

Guardian must be crying now...

Navi as a team is now strong. Nice work!

2018-05-17 21:33

Cry me a river navi haters

they r crying and they will cry even more

2018-05-17 21:43

+1 bro

Do you know whats funny? Even Heroic took NaVi one map(cache) and Faze go 0:2 That is kinda sad.

6 replies

Navi for the past 3 years have played cache twice.

2018-05-17 21:40

So why Faze didnt choose it? I think it's their one of best map...

4 replies

Because it was banned by Na'Vi you pleb

For this reason Navi banned it

2018-05-17 21:46

Have u ever heard about banning stage of map draft?

2018-05-17 21:52

Lmao i hope you were baiting

2018-05-17 23:04

man what the fuck faze

top 1 niko BUAWEBGHDUAWGRhAWGRAWRADFHsHDU

good job NaVi =)

It was electronic's moment of glory. S1mple showed up only on Nuke. Solid performance from Zeus btw!

2018-05-17 21:38

ez finals for astralis now that faze is out

Faze isn't out and Navi will take this fuckin tournament finally

2018-05-17 21:47

Faze still goes into quarterfinals

lul? Astralis will play vs faze in semi.

2018-05-18 00:18

GGWP

2018-05-17 21:39

Nicely done

EZ FOR ELECTRONIC

FaZe is overrated.

2018-05-18 09:34

raz'ebali bomjey

2018-05-17 21:44

Nah,FaZe is just shiting so hard on game rn. +olof and they can beat Na'Vi anytime with 2-0

7 replies

like in starladder

2018-05-17 21:48

2018-05-19 03:46

Ahaha olofmeister fangay go suck his little dick

2018-05-17 22:22

Remind me how’s C9 doing again? Oh yeah that’s right dropping maps to some garbage SA team and getting beat by heroic with a standin

2018-05-17 22:47

How really plays Clown9 LUL

2018-05-18 12:45

New igl xD Calm it, faze wasnt going to win shit with olof.

2018-05-19 03:47

Electronic is getting better and better

2018-05-17 21:51

Baiter and baiter Jk just crossed my mind

2018-05-19 03:48

fox - best cs player of all time fox - one of the best all time CSGO players fox - great rifle and fantastic pistol player fox - Great old talent fox - Hard awp

FAZE DOWN

2018-05-17 21:53

2018-05-17 21:55

electronic > s1mple

2018-05-17 22:25

Comeback Mr. Olof

Zeus is a noob they said. Zeus doesn't make a difference they said.

2018-05-17 22:54

+1 Zeus = GODLIKE IGL, one of the best and the most underrated ever imo. He proved it by his team's results all the time.

Na'Vi are so good recently damn. Been making it to the semis/finals at almost every event. Hope they win this one. They deserve it.

2018-05-17 22:55

+1 Na`Vi nuts, they need to keep this game and form

Yes my friend

2018-05-18 06:30

And again HLTV Logic: When Faze won against astralis:Faze best team in the world rn 1,5 weeks later Faze looses against Navi:OMG FAZE TRASH XDXDXD NAVI TOP1 wtf is wrong with people these days

Navi loses in semifinals: expected navi trash zeus trash igl (link to "sacha go attack" video) Navi wins in quarterfinals against an up and down faze: navi back navi top 1 zeus 200iq igl

2018-05-17 23:46

Yeah..

2018-05-18 14:16

s1mple is looking for another mvp

2018-05-17 23:29

electronic stronk

2018-05-17 23:43

choke clan

2018-05-18 01:47

Fuck you karrigan, you can’t even outfrag shit bots like Zeus and Edward???

2018-05-18 02:18

I said in another thread I would take Zeus & Edward over Karrigan & Xizt anyday of the year and got called a retard.... just HLTV things.

2018-05-18 02:21

KarrigaN ok, but Xizt is clearly playing olof's roles better than olof...

2018-05-19 03:49

Xizt is fucking terrible. NiP sacked him after he went 8 straight months not posting a single 1.0 rating or higher on LAN and it was a good choice as well. "Xizt is clearly playing olof's roles better than olof" Here are some facts in 5 months of play in 2018 FaZe have won 1 title, at the end of 2017 playing with Olof in the last 5 months of 2017 they won 6. You clearly are some fanboy of Xizt and I don't blame you he used to be a decent player, but he was always a terrible IGL judging by how NiP never adapted to the meta with him and kept old play styles that clearly didn't work (reminds me of Happy) but Happy is actually a decent fragger that's the difference. Olof is 100x better than Xizt and FaZe were a WAY better team playing with Olof not even debatable.

2018-05-20 03:16

Olof was never meant to play the gay passive-aggressive roles that he plays on faze. He only does it because he lost his former firepower. Xizt is a much better support player imo, the team works better with 3 stars than 4.

2018-05-20 05:54

They brought Olof in as a support player what in the actual fuck are you talking about?

2018-05-20 13:56

Zeus and Edward are both mad fraggers compared to karribot xD

2018-05-18 13:23

Electronic played a really good game and was unstoppable congrats to Na'vi.

yeah right, olof is the problem... lul

2018-05-18 03:59

Just the perfect opportunity for Na'Vi to play 2v5 but then FaZe played 0v5

2018-05-18 04:07

I think "electronic & co." is more appropriate for this series than "s1mple & co.", wouldn't you say ? :D

2018-05-18 05:43

Are there english vods and winning moment that can be found?

2018-05-18 05:55

Youtube > navi faze cs go > sort by upload date

2018-05-18 09:36

+100500

2018-05-18 16:47

It must be somewhere on YT.

2018-05-18 13:21

OMG, unbelievable!

2018-05-18 06:02

Xizt second, what year is this?

2018-05-18 07:11

2018-05-18 07:54

s1mple + electronic + flamie = top tier firepower. S1mple and electronic can win games by themselves and flamie is a very consistent and reliable rifler. edward = good support player (sometimes he does some stupid plays, but he is ok for a support role) zeus = good calls when not tilted

2018-05-18 08:09

Zeus and Edward needs only for dropping AK for S1mple/Elec and facechecks positions

2018-05-18 09:20

+1 I think they have ENOUGH Fire-power. 3 Fraggers when 1 of which is top1 in the World is far enough. Edward can be just a good support + smart oldschool with good experience and he can be in this roster at least for team synergy. Zeus proved MANY TIMES that he is Godlike IGL, and his fragging ability doesn't really matter right know. Just look at other IGLs... They are mostly all low fraggers, but people blame only Zeus. It's weird...

2018-05-18 09:35