Na`Vi enter Intel Grand Slam S3 race with IEM Katowice victory

1-3-2020 20:30

Natus Vincere have joined the race for the $1 million Intel Grand Slam (IGS) Season 3 prize after beating G2 to the IEM Katowice title.

The CIS team became the sixth different champion in as many IGS-eligible events this season, joining Liquid, Evil Geniuses, fnatic, Astralis and MOUZ in the race for the $1 million prize.

Na`Vi are the first winners of a Masters Championship level competition, a higher tier of tournaments introduced by ESL for Season 3 after Liquid's incredible feat of winning Season 2 inside just 63 days. A team can win the Grand Slam with just four titles inside a span of ten events provided that one of them came from a Masters Championship (for 2020, this tier also includes the ESL One Rio Major and ESL One Cologne). Otherwise, they will need to win six tournaments out of ten to complete the Grand Slam.

Na`Vi won the first Masters Championship event

This means that Na`Vi could scoop the $1 million cheque as early as June, at DreamHack Masters Jönköping, if they carry this sort of form into the next three eligible tournaments, starting with the ESL Pro League Season 11 Finals, next month.

But with the Rio Major also being a Masters Championship event, any of the other five teams who have picked up IGS titles this season could walk away with the $1 million prize in Jönköping if they go on a dominant streak.

Below you can find a list of the Intel Grand Slam Season 3 events that have been played out and the ones that are already confirmed:

IEM Chicago - Liquid
ESL One New York - Evil Geniuses
DreamHack Masters Malmö - fnatic
IEM Beijing - Astralis
ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals - MOUZ
IEM Katowice 2020 * - Natus Vincere
ESL Pro League Season 11 Finals - April 10-12
ESL One Rio * - May 11-24
DreamHack Masters Jönköping - June 9-14
ESL One Cologne 2020 * - July 6-12
IEM Melbourne - August 17-23

*Represents a Masters Championship Event

gz NaVi! well played.

2020-03-01 20:31

31 replies

woah pog

12 replies

NAVI ERA SOON hoes mad

2020-03-01 20:34

7 replies

Hope so!

2020-03-01 20:56

1 reply

2020-03-02 02:14

but navi fans aint mad

2020-03-02 08:10

4 replies

fans of other teams are 😎

2020-03-02 13:11

3 replies

not fnatic because they beat navi 😎

2020-03-02 16:42

2 replies

yes but now navi top2 fnatic top4 😎

2020-03-03 18:56

but now navi top2 fnatic top4 😎

2020-03-03 18:57

EZ Grand Slam for Mouz!

+1 PeruvianWidepeeker

2020-03-01 20:49

I am NOT PeruvianWidepeeker!

2020-03-01 22:10

nt PeruvianWidekeeper

2020-03-02 13:12

NAVI ruined the event

2020-03-01 20:35

14 replies

wht by shitting on astralis?

2020-03-01 20:44

2020-03-01 21:03

The salt is great, bandwagon astralis fans getting dealt reality To the stars xD

2020-03-01 20:46

8 replies

Lul rekt

2020-03-01 21:28

he has a danish flag dumbass, how can you call a danish astralis fan a bandwagon rofl

2020-03-01 22:00

6 replies

Bitch please, where did all the north flairs go? Dumb Danish kids just hopped on the stars train they second they started winning. Expected from a salty Dane tho

2020-03-01 22:03

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ROFL astralis been around way longer than north you dumbass the astralis core has always been the most popular in denmark, dates back to 2013 ffs i dont know what 3rd world no top 30 cs team having ass country you are from, but stop crying so fucking much

2020-03-01 23:17

Triggered Danish fan, enjoy the ride of the new Navi era nubcake xD

2020-03-01 23:19

navi era doesn't exist just because they won katowice rofl calling me triggered doesn't make me triggered btw

2020-03-01 23:24

sound triggered tho

2020-03-01 23:51

navi era isn’t because they won one tournament, it’s because they absolutely fucking DESTROYED everybody in the playoffs

2020-03-02 00:28

Lmao

2020-03-01 20:48

HAHAHAAH dude Astralis era is going down. Zonic was to confident. MAYBE they'll come back who knows. PEACE #NAVINATION

2020-03-01 21:00

2020-03-02 10:39

EZ GG , GOOD LUCK NAVI

Finally NAVI shows what they deserve and most importantly it is very important for Simple!

2020-03-02 11:18

Cool name

2020-03-02 12:51

ggwp

Nice

Let's fucking go Na'Vi

gg also called the Dismantling of g2

2020-03-01 20:32

Good job

ez for Best team and GOAT s1mple

Don't get boombla in a race his heart going explode))

great season. 6 events - 6 different winners

6 different teams lol

Yeah this is what I like to watch without any team dominating for a long time.

2020-03-02 10:12

Same

2020-03-02 14:15

ezezez

LOVE YOU BRO <3

2020-03-01 20:33

Bro its not the real s1mple. He has a "|" before his name. Cmon seriously, couldnt you check this yourself?

2020-03-02 23:50

i still love him

2020-03-03 00:24

Ty nastoyashchiy? Are u real simple?

2020-03-01 21:06

ofc not.... check his replies, s1mple may be toxic, but not that toxic and also this user acts like a kid. Its probl biggest baiter alt account @sam2k

2020-03-02 14:44

Deserved. Lets go NaVi. Lets get the Intel Grand Slam now. #NAVINATION #NAVIDAVI

2020-03-01 20:36

Well played!

Honestly, playoffs showed that Navi was kinda of a another level during this tournament, giving no chance to their rivals

The boombl4 team really managed very well. They were really great when one of the s1mple and electronic are shined and when supports did their job well. In both Astralis and g2 matches, not only both of them are incredible but also supporters made a lot of highlights. I don't even mention about the nuke performance of boombl4. That is the Na'Vi which we miss <3

First and last tournament they will win in 2020

2020-03-01 20:40

hahahaa dont be jealous bruh... your team had its time ... now its navi's

2020-03-01 20:42

Well as long as fnatic is on the other side of the bracket

2020-03-01 21:47

name checks out. astralis fans malding, 32-10. even liquid put up a better fight xaxaxaxaxa

Astralis winning all tournament, but suddenly lost one Their fans: uhh, faking somple, lucky vincere

2020-03-01 20:50

Change ur name s1mple hater. Npw he win 1 major & NAVI time began, so count 1, 2, 3, & maybe more than astralis & ur GOAT device Respect player who gve full of him s1mple is ever touched csgo player! r u hear from anchors?

2020-03-01 21:32

Bruuuuuh, i was troling an astralis fan,but you didn't catch the irony

2020-03-02 05:11

gj sorry for that hhaahhhahha xD

2020-03-02 08:44

six different teams!

2020-03-01 20:41

NAVI top 1 2020?

Eu 4 - 2 Na checkmate burger

all different team this is great

yea didn't even realize until now, should be a pretty exciting 2020

amazing

2020-03-01 20:45

top 1 team

For people, which talked shit about Perfecto for his stats 4-7 k/d 0.79 rating map 1 Grand final and he was "shit" - He won most clutches for tournament (8) and 5th from whole tournament most kills ( whole team Navi actually is top 5 most kills LOL). NaVI team was perfect, great job. Enjoy the moment.

Nice info

2020-03-01 21:15

NaVi was amazing in this event, but still need to wait a little bit more to say that they are best team, at this moment they are best but had to keep form like this to stay on top. If they win next big event they can prove it, coz until katowice they was crap and hope this is not gonna be 1 lucky event as happen for a lot of teams.

2020-03-01 20:47

They were pretty good in blast premier series. Defeating astralis vitality and complexity 2-0 each. So they werent "crap" before this tournament as u said.

2020-03-01 23:30

NaVi good but not best..... jw best

2020-03-02 13:55

Completely up for grabs! Moses was right, we've seen NaVi play like this before then drop off or be inconsistent. Time will tell, maybe they've changed and if they have they definitely mean business because they were insane at this tournament! The scene is so unpredictable right now though.

We have never seen Na'Vi play like this before. ESL one Cologne was a massive grind. This was just utter domination and they keep getting better.

This was indeed more dominant, but we have seen them at the top before multiple times for it to only be a fleeting performance.

2020-03-01 21:27

we have never seen navi play like this in such a long time. wtf are you talking about?

2020-03-01 21:23

I didn't say recently, don't get your knickers in a knot.

2020-03-01 21:02

NAVI it is Ukrainian team.

2020-03-01 21:46

1 Ukrainian 4 Russians = Russian team

2020-03-01 23:01

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natus_Vincere Ukrainian organization.

2020-03-01 23:32

But Russian CS:GO roster. In your terms, SK was European team with Brazilian lineup? Or Virtus.pro was Russian team with Polish roster?

2020-03-02 01:17

U r right

2020-03-02 10:33

nice

2020-03-01 21:49

This is Ukrainian team, based in Ukraine, live and train in Kyiv (Ukraine), so stop saying Na'Vi are russians, cause they never were russian team, I watch cs since 2008 and I know the thing I'm talking about. Russians always hated Na'Vi cause they always destroyed russian teams) and actually, I think that e-sport team is not a national team, it's a club. Speaking of football for example if spanish football club has 7 italian players it doesn't make it italian at all) it's still spanish football club with 7 italians in squad. I think that same thing is about Na'Vi, I may agree them to be considered as CIS, but not as russian at all)

2020-03-02 01:18

1 Ukrainian 4 Russians => Na'Vi Russian team /close Don't compare sports and eSports, it's a different things. In you terms, SK was European team with Brazilian lineup? Or VP was Russian team with Polish roster? I agree that Na'Vi - Ukrainian ORGANISATION, but CS:GO roster is Russian. P.S. Don’t think that I hate Na'Vi or Ukraine, I just don’t like such inaccuracies)

2020-03-02 03:47

I think it doesn’t matter under which flag are team playing, because true fans cheers for players, not for a nation.

2020-03-02 07:21

Agree

2020-03-02 07:27

2020-03-02 11:33

Congrats to Na'vi fans. I know it's been a tough year for you. I mean that sincerely by the way not trolling. Although next time TL meets them I hope Simple and friends get crushed. Until then however enjoy the victory. Well earned in a stacked tourny.

2020-03-02 02:21

Most competitive era EVER, 6 teams fighting for the grand slam and even G2 looks like they could be fighting for it at this point.

2020-03-02 02:38

2020-03-02 08:28

Imo mibr still have chance to win this race

2020-03-02 09:51

OmegaLUL

2020-03-02 13:57

GEGE

2020-03-02 11:08

Only FNATIC and FAZE fought the NAVI, others took 2-0 :P

2020-03-02 11:09

Kinda sad that it came only after GuardiaN was benched, but it's nice to see S1mple on top again

2020-03-02 16:29

Faze vs Navi Rio finals

2020-03-04 08:11

I would hope for it. But remember, there is the player break in between and this has destroyed teams many times. Liquid was steam rolling everyone last year, winning 6 consecutive tourneys and the IGS (with the first three). After the player break they didn't even look like the same team anymore and now they are barely #6 team. Hopefully, this won't happen to NaVi.

2020-03-04 13:13

All levity aside, Faze is growing in confidence and is pretty grounded. Same with Navi. Even if they're not playing in the finals, I hope to see them have a good outing and redeem their brand name after a disastrous 2019.

2020-03-04 18:43