Gambit send Na`Vi packing at ESL One New York

28-9-2018 19:34

Gambit are through to the playoffs at ESL One New York after defeating Natus Vincere on two maps (16-11 on Nuke, 16-14 on Inferno).

On their opponents' map pick, Nuke, Natus Vincere started things off on the right foot as Terrorists, with Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev turning a 3v5 situation around with a triple and a double-kill, respectively. The Ukrainians followed that up with the anti-ecos, but they could not prevent Gambit from winning the first gun round.

Still, Natus Vincere further added to their lead in the next three rounds to make it 6-1, before Gambit went on a three-round streak of their own. After that, the teams kept trading rounds, with Na`Vi taking a 9-6 lead into the second half.

After the break, it was Gambit who came out the brighter, securing the pistol round and the subsequent anti-ecos. It was only in the 22nd round that Natus Vincere got back on the board, but, just like on the first day of the tournament, they simply could not stop Gambit's executions, with the Kazakh losing just one more round before locking down the map at 16-11.

mou had an impressive performance throughout the series

Next up was Inferno, which kicked off with Natus Vincere picking up their Terrorist pistol. However, Gambit immediately countered them with a successful force-buy, which they followed up with one more round. s1mple then came up huge with three Deagle headshots, helping his team to restore parity at 2-2.

Natus Vincere won the next two rounds fairly easily, but Gambit responded with three of their own to take the lea at 5-4. Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko called a tactical pause, which inspired his team to win four rounds in a row – one of those thanks to a 1v3 post-plant clutch from s1mple. The final two rounds of the half then went to Gambit, who reduced the deficit to 7-8 by winning the last two rounds of the half.

Now playing on the CT side, Natus Vincere bagged an 11-7 lead after winning the second pistol and the following anti-ecos, but then Gambit equalized the score with a four-round streak. Na`Vi won the subsequent round on a shoddy buy, but Rustem "⁠mou⁠" Telepov pulled off two clutch rounds to give his team a 13-12 lead and break the Ukrainians' economy.

After building up their bank, Natus Vincere still levelled the score, 14-14, but Gambit had their eyes set on the playoffs, and remained calm and collected to seal the deal in the 30th round.

ESL One New York 2018Best of 3

Natus Vincere

Matchpage

28th September 2018

Gambit

Nuke

Inferno

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	49 - 34	+15	84.5	73.7%	1.35
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	41 - 34	+7	67.3	73.7%	1.01
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	37 - 42	-5	71.6	68.4%	0.91
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Zeus	28 - 44	-16	68.2	63.2%	0.85
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	24 - 42	-18	59.3	64.9%	0.76

Gambit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov HObbit	47 - 39	+8	96.1	68.4%	1.31
Rustem 'mou' Telepov mou	47 - 32	+15	80.3	75.4%	1.28
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov mir	38 - 32	+6	65.4	75.4%	1.05
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Dosia	34 - 38	-4	73.4	71.9%	0.94
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev AdreN	30 - 39	-9	69.5	61.4%	0.85

Finally Thorin was right - about current top10 being the weakest ever. I mean, what the fuck? FaZe lost to G2&NRG, Na`Vi lost to Gambit twice, Gambit lost to shitty mousesports, only Liquid and MIBR look OK but Astralis still has no problems winning left right and center, it's like there is a top1 team and a bunch of trashpiles, now it's pretty much the same as in 2012 when there was NiP and there were several teams that couldn't do shit and only competed against each other, then finally VeryGames got shox and Russian Virtus.Pro turned out being strong, then fnatic picked olofm and KRiMZ, but until then it was a game that you always knew who would win, now it's the same, Astralis dominates, Na`Vi and all the rest struggle. It's not interesting anymore, it's like "ok let's find out how much of a rape it will be in the final when Astralis wins it again". Who can possibly fix that? Does anybody believe in Vitality? I don't, they have Happy (no matter he's not calling) and RpK (he was solid but not anymore).

2018-09-28 19:34

62 replies

wtf how

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Ctrl V

2018-09-28 19:36

7 replies

but how does he post a relevant post to the article?

2018-09-28 19:38

6 replies

ahhaahaahaha

2018-09-28 19:40

He has relations

2018-09-28 19:41

Types it out during/just after the game, then refreshes every second until the article goes up, then ctrl+v

2018-09-28 19:56

2 replies

he does it for regular articles that have nothing to do with matches too though

2018-09-28 20:48

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Probably scouts all the other CS news websites and prepares them lmao, it’s the only thing I can think of at least

2018-09-28 21:21

He had prepared the post in advance and then kept hitting refresh until the article appeared.

2018-09-28 20:26

Hes right

Fast fingers lul

MIBR doesn't look OK.

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No... they were only a major semifinalist and once again a legend... people dont like the team, but you guys will have to swallow it... back to 4th in the rank along with the other 3 major semifinalists... soon to get back to the top again after some more work!

2018-09-28 19:39

But NaVi was a major finalist and they don't look OK to you?

I think they are a very shaky team that completely depends on s1mple... and i also think they will soon have a roster change (-edward) because of thr same reason... it seems the other players (except electronic) are there just to fill in.

2018-09-28 19:45

MIBR is looking OK in a way there's a structure, navi have only simple and eletronic, you can maybe put zeus on that for his igl skills.. flamie too inconsistent ( the most in the game rn) and Edward is TOO bad, he needs to leave, navi is not ok because it's not reaching what it can reach

2018-09-28 20:25

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That's about it. Edward is clearly an anchor. Zeus not that good also but has its merits on IGL. Na'vi depends so much on s1mple and electronic. The rest are not at the same page.

2018-09-28 20:36

youre wrong

2018-09-28 20:37

Navi is ok top2 major and top2 in world. brazilian cs in 2018 is not ok.

and then been sending home by top20 team in the fucking group stages 1 week later, see ? it's a good team, but its certaintly not ok,not with a player that can't do shit for the team, that's what im trying to say, edward needs to leave

2018-09-28 20:41

Holy shit get your greasy fat ass out of your moms basement and go outside

it's dark outside (i mean no racism tho)

2018-09-28 19:42

"Finally Thorin was right" You're saying it like you've waited for a decade for that to happen.

2018-09-28 19:35

it worse than old fnatic during 2015 when they won everything and destroyed every single game and final

2018-09-28 19:37

Hahaha

I guess thats the Astralis Era. But every EU era ends after 2 years (NA after 2 weeks) LUL

Relax dude, Kng is comming back to NA to kill everyone!

2018-09-28 19:46

unless they prove it?..

2018-09-28 19:47

Eh id say it's more like Astralis #1, Liquid #2 and then a bunch of mixed up teams. The last time Liquid lost to a team that wasnt Astralis was July 4th, nearly 3 months ago.

2018-09-28 19:50

2018-09-28 19:54

relax the major just ended these navi and faze are probably not taking this super serious while nrg and gambot probably prepared super hard for this

2018-09-28 20:01

So, you feel sorry for the teams that cannot play tactically, i.e. all the teams other than Astralis? I see no problem with that. Astralis put a lot of thought into developing strats while all other teams stuck in the CS 1.6 era and it shows. Liquid is the only team which seemingly wants to reach the same level of play but they don't have a good dedicated AWPer.

Astralis=Boring Liquid=choke against astralis Na’vi=P1mple MiBR=trash FaZe=down

2018-09-28 20:20

Well, go f off, if you believe that Astralis is "boring". Try winning against them. They are not boring. They are playing perfect CS:GO. Also, calling teams names is the lowest and meanest you could do, so I guess next time I'll just ignore such "insightful" comments.

2018-09-28 20:29

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Booring

2018-09-28 20:35

behind every man who says that every team apart from astralis need changes there is a man who will say LMAO FUCK OFF ASTRALIS PLAYS SO GOOD OF A CS and dont take into consideration that edward is currently in top 2.or taco in top 3 or karrigan in top 5

2018-09-28 21:36

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Taco a top 3 support player in the game and karrigan a top 5 IGL right now. Makes sense to me.

2018-09-29 02:23

krimz olof xyp9x which one do you drop to make a spot for taco?

2018-09-29 16:12

Olof isnt a support lmao. Hes a lurker on Faze hes almost always alone and catching rotates, they dont have a support and dont need one with that style. Supports benefit tactical teams by having great assistive utility usage, being passive, and allowing stars to shine. Olof does none of that. Olof is is no way a supportive element of anything he takes resources not feeds them. If they even had a support it would be rain he entry/supports by playing small sites and weaker spots on CT sides. Xyp krimz taco

2018-09-29 16:50

it seems the scene is slowly dying, the game has been stagnant for a while now, it needs a major update, a sequel, new meta, anything

2018-09-28 20:23

So, we no longer have flukes and we have a team which has more or less solved the game and suddenly the scene is "dying"? Dying of what? Of being unable to play like Astralis does? Comments like yours have become extremely boring. It looks like every silver noob here wants flukes, hero plays, great clutches, huge upsets every major but that will just suck 'cause you'll never know which teams are actually good and the whole ranking system will just suck since it'll be completely random.

2018-09-28 20:33

''more or less solved the game'' it's because of this, changes in the game are too slow so it's possible for a team to break the game like they did Dota for example changes its meta frequently, so teams always have to adapt to changes,thats what makes it a good team IMO, whereas good teams in csgo ( only astralis rn) only have to do the same thing everytime because that's the only good option u feel me, which makes their games boring, same shit everytime

+1 Great analysis man Finally a worthy first with brains!

2018-09-28 20:54

really? hahaha im laughing to seing this kinda comments.. navi just came from finals in London vs Astralis.. that kinda loose demoralized them.. even electronic said he feels aint good.. they loost easy to them, cause Astralis was beast. if navi couldnt win them, then NOBODY could win VS Astralis.. so team probs aint give a sh1t to this tournament anyways.. and about Thorin.. who is Thorin?

2018-09-28 20:57

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If u look at all team astralis went up against, the team they went up against the most is FaZe, and the current head to head win is 25-19, by stating "if navi couldnt win astralis,nobody could win astralis" prove that u are a delusional kid, washup nip manage to pull out from 3 overtime against astralis recently, liquid as well , and 3months ago ppl were debating whether it was astralis era,but during iem sydney they got 0-3 by faze in a bo5...., so stop being delusional and think that navi is the only one that can win astralis,navi is nothing without simple and electronic

2018-09-29 05:09

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it's funny how close maps in a 2 0 match matters with faze fans when the team is losing but when they're winning 3 0 the map scores doesn't matter.

2018-09-29 06:26

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First map faze was leading but astralis did a comeback but faze close it out, second map astralis was leading but faze did a comeback and close it out, third map was a joke for astralis ,leading 10-0 but lose 14-16 to faze, yes i respected astralis for playing well,but astralis fans should know that astralis was leading for 2 maps but in the end faze make a comeback, stop saying both maps are close without knowing who is leading in both maps

2018-09-29 08:59

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I don't see how 'having a close map' is mutually exclusive to 'a comeback scenario'

2018-09-29 09:08

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Astralis fan think it a close map,but in fact it actually not, i watch the whole grand final,if u realise both maps both team were making comeback before the last map

2018-09-29 09:09

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you still haven't explained #169

2018-09-29 09:14

#170, expected from third world country with 0 educational level there

2018-09-29 09:15

that's not an explanation. you were only repeating your previous post. I wasn't asking for a TL;Dr.

2018-09-29 09:16

I wasnt repeatinf my prev post if u read it carefully

2018-09-29 09:22

Regardless of that, you still haven't explained #169.

2018-09-29 09:24

#177 for clear explanation since 0 iq kid dont get my first explanation

2018-09-29 09:27

'Mutually exclusive' means that one cannot exist with the other also existing,

2018-09-29 09:19

Hai im from singapore,apparently i dont need a thirdworld country with 0 educational leve at there explaining to me what is mutually exclusive, yes they are not mutually exclusive, im proving your point wrong because they are not close map but comeback maps,doubting if u r even a astralis fan,and still doubting whether if u watch the full grand final

2018-09-29 09:25

Kay i'm outta here. You clearly have no grasp on the subject at hand and have no thorough understanding of mutual exclusivity. If you said that they aren't mutually exclusive, then that means that the one could exist with the other also existing. You clearly can't understand what i was saying. Having the superior educational program but failing to grasp a simple concept must be frustrating huh.

2018-09-29 09:37

Apparently u still dont get what im explaining,so guess who is the actualu one that isnt understanding anything?? Get your facts right indog

2018-09-29 11:40

NRG bad? Die

2018-09-28 21:05

Hes right. Nowadays there is Astralis and the rest(bad or struggling teams). Astralis doesnt have any star player (like simple,niko,coldzera) but their teamplay is far superior than any other team. I hope other teams will start to improve / stop choking for the sake of the good counter strike.

2018-09-28 21:53

i consider that device is (kinda ) starplayer imo

2018-09-28 23:44

ree

Gambit will win the event, hobbit stays and ange1 replaces Mir or Dosia. I'm so happy I don't want to lose gambit.

ANGE1 is like one of the owners of HellRaisers, so i doubt it

So was Zeus in Navi lol before he got kicked out and went to Gambit

2018-09-29 11:10

NaVi turned out to be a big organization in eSports industry (since those Arbalet days) and their cs players don't hold any ownership. ZeroGravity was like the owner the whole time. Meanwhile HellRaisers is basically a cs organization only.

2018-09-29 11:58

no way that Gambots can win vs Liquid lul

Tilt after the major? No, just unprofessionality.

Danylows Teslenkows haha

yep

2018-09-28 20:17

i don't know who was the dickhead that thought that interviewing s1mple right after a tremendous loss would be good. 8/8 good job. ESL NY just demoted to Tier 4

+1 he just lost a major final few days ago and now crashed out of this tournament from group stage. He was so emotionally unstable . it was apparent. SHould have gone for flamie or zeus

Lol I thought it was very brutal too, but entertaining nonetheless. Very nice thing with interviewing a losing team, ESL, I like it!

2018-09-28 20:19

So what if they interview the losing team they r professionals they need deal with it

Nah I agree with you, they surely can take it and we should see more interviews with losing teams.

2018-09-28 21:17

yh real talk

2018-09-28 23:42

Where can i watch it? Didn't see it live.

2018-09-28 20:39

Well played Gambit!

True. Wanna see them taking New York this year

2018-09-28 21:00

Lul misspelled ez trying to go fast. What a fail.

gtr=110majors frst=108majors think aboutit

combo breaker

2018-09-28 21:04

-edward ASAP ffs. this guy is pure garbage now. Just fxck this dedicated support bullshit. He don't even do anything that support do. Modrn cs go meta doesnt need for any support. Everyone play support role depend on circumstances

You dont need a support but a support definitely helps certain styles. With that being said Edward isnt really a support anyway hes basically a really weird entry.

2018-09-29 02:26

CAN'T BELIEVE IT

Hobbit being kicked is destroying top2 team LuL

#HobbitWasTheProblem ??? In my mind NO

2018-09-28 20:08

black-yellow trash should say "thx" to the major champions for two master classes and go to more practice

English pls, kiddo

ohh you again.... dont cry plz.....

2018-09-28 19:55

Im cry only on braindead JR who lost godmir, sorry...

Dosia destroyed Pimple, GJ X

deadward///

Ez4ENCE

HAHAHA

Upset tournement

Lol

Good shit

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

navi top2 LUL

btfo

AHAHAHHAHAH TEAM DISBAND AFTER MAJOR, BUT 2 TIEMS REKT TOP2 MAJOR TEAM ? DISBAND FUCKING OLD TRASH EDWARD

xD +9999 likes to this mr

ez for major winers

expected lol

super expected

+1 name checks out

thx and ur flair also checks out

#1 name xd

2018-09-28 19:53

:( Reply needs to have actual content

AHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Someone needs to understand that he sucks and needs to leave team before team will decide to kick him but yeah, free money

i knew it haha

navi botward sack of potatoes haha

Kick shit bot Edward

Navi org should force zeus to play dm 5 hours a day in his contract

honestly, he is IGL, if Edward wasn't even worse than the IGL as a fulltime rifler, Zeus would have better stats too and the team would do better. Zeus needs to do better too but with riflers like Edward playing like this there is no chance

2018-09-28 19:43

Zeus is the lesser of the problems... Even being an average rifler, his IGL skills are one unarguably good. - Navi reached #2 in the world with him before he was dropped. - Then he goes to Gambit, revamp the way Overpass is played and win a major. - He comes back to Navi and instantly makes the team a real contender of tournaments. Edward on the other hand... EDIT: wrong quote, should have quoted #61 lul

2018-09-28 20:18

exactly, plus flamie is the most inconsistent player in the scene rn, edward sucks so bad as well, navi can do much better than this

2018-09-28 20:27

exactly, Zeus has his flaws but when Edward is just awful, and flamie is either good or awful but when he is off its 2v5 or 3v5...then it highlights Zeus and makes him look worse....if everyone frags and the team wins it is OK for IGL to be negative k/d but when they lose it looks worse for Zeus, maybe 2018 is the year they change players I heard after major they would make 1 or 2 changes.

2018-09-28 20:30

wtf

EDWARD SEND NA`VI PACKING AT ESL ONE NEW YORK

nope, Gambit did

can Edward get kicked yet?

ripperino :/ -edward/flamie seems a lot more likely now

B1ad3 MVP Yeah NaVi must be drained and not at best but the change in Gambit in a short time and how clean the teamwork is, huge props to B1ad3 wd now all we need is CIS superteam to hire him and Astralis era will be on a time limit. Given time a CIS superteam with B1ad3 could be the best ever ? Who would you choose ? s1mple electronic h0bbit mir ANGEL ? ADREN ? chopper ? even jR and put simple on rifle ? lots of possibilities hope they come together as a region lol.. would be shit hot

s1mple on rifle/second AWP, electronic - huge carry, chopper - hot af B-site defender, jR - main AWP and IGL, 5th player is flamie/hobbit, idk :) That would be the most powerful CiS beasteam who could deal even with ASStralis

2018-09-28 20:14

Jetlag BabyRage

-Edward +Hobbit plz, even dosia is much better.

Lucky

2018-09-28 19:48

godzera 2 majors>BOTimple 0 major

2018-09-28 19:49

YESSSSS

rip major 2nd

2018-09-28 19:52

-edward +any human

s1mple L(

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA LMAO

another time, i say: Gambit >>> NaVi

gambit are on fire this tournament. wp.

2018-09-28 19:58

3vs5 zeus and edward LMAO bots

2018-09-28 20:05

i give up

2018-09-28 20:09

GG Gambit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2018-09-28 20:10

NAVI MORE LIKE NAVLUL

gambit always was better than na'vi

S1mple is the most stable mentally guy. +15 the only one.

Gambit new era?

2018-09-28 20:38

Yes

2018-09-28 22:14

Simple biggest mistake of carreer was not joining SK/MIBR core

they are worst

2018-09-29 03:58

it almost happened, but greedy fucks at Navi set buyout too big for Sk to make it

2018-09-29 09:38

agree

2018-09-29 12:15

Amazed at just how hard gambit sucked yesterday, only to show up today.

2018-09-28 20:43

Without edward i dont give a f... about navi. he's a true legend

2018-09-28 20:47

Navi fix -Edward

ez for those who have major.

gambit are on fire this tournament. wp

2018-09-28 21:07

adren should retire

funny how the cancer is commentating now before this games edward was navis second best player at this tournament 5 maps 1.18 rating and 1.15 kd in the major playoffs before the finals 1.32 rating (as their 3rd best player) electronic was missing here + edward was still navs second best player ratingwise even after tjis lose

2018-09-28 21:40