Astralis move past NAVI to consolidation final at BLAST Premier

12-12-2020 22:22

The Danes have secured a matchup against BIG for a place in the tournament's grand final.

Having lost the opening series of the upper bracket to NAVI, Astralis are now just one win away from completing the lower bracket gauntlet after taking their revenge on the CIS-based side and securing three consecutive 2-0 victories ahead of the consolidation final. Meanwhile, Natus Vincere have exited the penultimate event of the year and their debut tournament with Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy as the sixth man in fourth place.

So far, the only map b1t has stepped in for has been Inferno in his short tenure with Natus Vincere, and it was no different this time as he took Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev's place in the starting roster on the opening map against Astralis.

Astralis have amassed momentum with three 2-0s in the lower bracket

The focus was all on the duo of Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov, however, as the two superstars put up nearly 60 kills combined on the first map but to no success, with Astralis coming out on top on the back of a close win strong finish on the defense.

flamie was back on the server in time for Train, but it did NAVI little good as they struggled in the first half up against another exceptional defensive showing from the Danish squad, with Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy nowhere to be seen. After some forcebuy shenanigans at the beginning of the second half, Astralis regained control before it ever got too close for comfort, closing the series at 16-7, 2-0.

BLAST Premier Fall 2020 FinalsBest of 3

Astralis

Matchpage

12th December 2020

Natus Vincere

Inferno

Train

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	40 - 27	+13	82.3	74.0%	1.24
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	40 - 32	+8	84.2	70.0%	1.22
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	34 - 26	+8	79.8	78.0%	1.22
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	33 - 30	+3	66.2	80.0%	1.11
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	24 - 29	-5	65.8	78.0%	1.01

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	45 - 32	+13	94.4	76.0%	1.32
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	42 - 34	+8	95.1	72.0%	1.21
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy b1t	11 - 17	-6	52.9	70.4%	0.79
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov Boombl4	17 - 34	-17	45.6	60.0%	0.72
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	10 - 19	-9	51.2	43.5%	0.62
Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Perfecto	15 - 36	-21	49.4	54.0%	0.56

dev1ce > s0mple

2020-12-12 22:22

25 replies

ez bby

2020-12-12 22:23

1 reply

Electronic >>>> S0mple I feel bad for him, he is the one who is carrying Navi not Simple. Simple kills are mostly baits just silvers not noticing it only cares about K/D lol

2020-12-12 22:31

someone save electronic, poor man is wasting his prime years baiting for s0mple!

Astralis>>>NaVi*

2020-12-12 22:24

Not even close. Just imagine s1mple playing device role in Astralis and got 2 rating every game.

2020-12-12 22:28

10 replies

You really can't put it that way, device plays around his team much more than s1mple does and plays smart. s1mple is just a highlight reel, wouldn't work in Astralis

2020-12-12 22:35

2 replies

He play like this cuz it’s their strategy, that’s how they are playing. Play defensive is easier actually and why you think it is smarter? Simple just understand that he need to kill enemy’s by himself or he gonna lose. If he start to play one spot like every others players do - they will not come to him and rush weaker boomich and flamie 15 rounds in a row

2020-12-13 10:43

Go watch lau’s demo review of dev1ce on nuke, you will see just how much he moves around the map and switches up positions. He rotates into positions and either holds an angle where the opponents are rotating into or supports a teammate at that position

2020-12-13 15:55

Astralis wouldn't have 5 majors if S0mple plays for them because he doesn't play for the team lol

2020-12-12 23:19

Then simple would bottom frag for sure. Device is an awper without any support unlike simple having his whole team just supporting him to get em frags kekw

2020-12-13 05:03

But his team is just bad. They are literally worse of anyone at pro scene. Only electronic and simple are playing really good, the rest just dies together to one man. So how can you blame simple for his teammates being bad so much that the best thing they can do is try to help simple or electronic find a frag

2020-12-13 10:50

Imagine s1mple in Astralis telling dupree to run in and bait for him, telling glaive to drop him Awp every round and telling Xyp he sucks because he isn’t topfragging

2020-12-13 05:15

2020-12-13 09:18

That's not how strats work. s1mple would be a MUCH worse player in Astralis because his awp playstyle is the polar opposite of Device.

2020-12-13 11:40

+11111111

2020-12-12 22:37

die pls

2020-12-12 22:46

YYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

2020-12-12 22:52

s0mple better then whole BIG team 16/1 16/2

2020-12-12 22:57

He lost vs vitality 2-0. Big at least won 1 map.

2020-12-13 09:29

2020-12-13 02:48

+1 s0mple fluke top1 hltv

2020-12-13 07:27

EZ FOR GOD 👊 youtube.com/watch?v=aCGNlGL24eI&t=5s&ab_..

2020-12-13 16:13

gg gl astralis

3 replies

LETS GOOOO ASTRALIS

Nothing checks out

So does yours... LacTating Nipples

2020-12-12 23:35

Bad news for s1mple’s #1 in 2020

5 replies

Why? He just won another mvp award.

2020-12-12 23:01

4 replies

Proof?

2020-12-12 23:36

xi wu is literally above him ratings wise in this tournament lmao

2020-12-13 01:43

I only meant mvp for the match, not for the whole tournament.

2020-12-13 12:09

0/8

2020-12-13 08:06

Finally a BIG vs Astralis matchup this year , looking forward to this! Hope both teams step in gun blazing!

Congratulations on the victory, but tomorrow I'll support BIG :) You made me tilt after such a match! 🥺

Deserved tournament victory for Astralis, I'll cheer for them in the Grand final

2020-12-12 23:07

Well I think tomorrow won't be a big problem but Vitality for sure are a pretty commendable side with lot of individual and team brilliance, they will be the toughest nut to crack by all means.

2020-12-13 00:47

Well what can I say, this just feels like old Astralis coming back against whom no one really stood a chance. I just hope NaVi players find more consistency with the talent that they have

2020-12-13 00:45

Simple is just a baiter, he plays for statistics. If you want to win itisn’t enough to have a decent aiming against Australia.

2020-12-12 22:25

7 replies

Australia? what

2020-12-12 23:31

Au goes hard don’t fuck with them

2020-12-12 23:33

Autocorrect lol

2020-12-13 00:29

Fkn Australia !!! 😡😡😡

2020-12-12 23:37

True

2020-12-13 00:41

+1 Renegades and alistair > s1mple

2020-12-13 04:25

emu > s1mple

2020-12-13 15:15

Ggastralis

s0mple overrated as always save god electronic

#freep1mple #freegodtronic

2020-12-12 23:08

It used to be s1mple and electronic with 3 bots, now it's s1mple and electronic with 4 bots.

Haha

u mean its electronic and 3 bots getting baited by s1mple

Ba1tple

Dev1ce >>> S0mple S0mple best baiter #1 HLTV confirmed

Nt elec, good to see him shining today (s1mple was ok as always). But sadly all other players underpefrormed.

2020-12-12 22:26

I dont understand what Blad3 brings to Navi, no strats improvement, they are so predictable each time...

2020-12-12 22:29

Bla1d3 brought in old flipsid3 strats, like entering a plant with 7 seconds left and 70% of defence positions are unchecked. Sometimes it works, but mostly bomb planter gets killed with no time left. I am pretty sure we will see Zeus as a coach in a while.

2020-12-12 22:41

Zeus should be 2nd coach with B1ad3 together

two teams, two complete different systems... One team trying to make their star players shine while the other one wants to win as a team.

And they all get what they want :)

sadly true I guess lul

if i had to sacrifice my stardom and stats for 4 majors, i 100% would

2020-12-13 01:41

It's so crazy that after watching Astralis since 2017 they still manage to surprise me by beating even the strongest looking opponents. NaVi seemed to have a worse day than last match against Astralis and that's when Magisk/Dev1ce/Gla1ve can prosper by hitting damn near every shot and making great calls. GGWP to both teams and I hope for a nice battle against BIG tomorrow :)

Expectef, Navi can win only if 3 bots playing atleast 1 kd

2020-12-12 22:32

40-50 ADR....

GG Astralis hope u win this tour! Now NaVi can think about Global Challenge

Fuck blaast, and everything it stands 4

Astralis is looking great, seems like they are no.1 again. And it's really sad to say for me, but I think it would be better for both players and NaVi as an org. if they would go seperate ways, I want to see s1mple play in a good team.

2020-12-12 22:40

6 replies

Yea, making him to a sub in Astralis or Liquid would not even be a bad idea lol

2020-12-13 01:42

His comeback to Liquid would be nice.

2020-12-13 02:36

Yea, just imagine :3

2020-12-13 15:31

I love NaVi but I want it to happen just for s1mple.

2020-12-13 18:12

Even if they get quikert he still has to play for s1mple, im not blaming or saying its erong because it has been working a lot this year but unless navi change their playstyle a bit they can be predicted by other teams

2020-12-13 04:58

This team needs just small changes, cosmetical I would say, to unleash their full potential, and they need to change their playstyle a bit aswell.

2020-12-13 11:59

-perfecto -flamie -boombl4 -b1t

2020-12-12 22:42

GG Astralis on to the next!

Ggs

2020-12-12 22:55

Props to electronic :)

2020-12-12 23:32

Very happy to see him back doing damage like LANs :)

2020-12-13 07:07

Astralis looking like gods.

2020-12-12 22:56

Another 2 v 5 for navi. Seriously it's not funny anymore, navi is hella rich maybe richest org in csgo buy fucking qikert or mir or chopper cmon.

2020-12-12 23:04

It has never been funny mens(

2020-12-12 23:10

I wonder if there is a factor where some CIS players don’t want to play with s1mple or something or just aren’t keen on moving, because Navi doesn’t really even seem to have the best CIS players apart from s1mple and electronic

2020-12-13 05:20

You can trust me that CIS/EU players would not want to play with simple unless they are willing to sacrifice their career to make him look good. Btw you named mir specifically - that's a funny coincidence

2020-12-13 09:37

"navi is hella rich maybe richest org in csgo" not even close lmao

2020-12-13 08:09

Device #1

2020-12-12 23:11

navi such bots feelsbad for simple

2020-12-12 23:12

The other day I read a fool who said that train was the best map of navi OMEGALEL

2020-12-12 23:18

"Move past" is a gentle way of putting it after BIG, who were "demolished", actually won a map and more total rounds.

2020-12-12 23:29

Yeah sometimes hltv have a strange way to describe the games. 2-1 - DESTROYED 2-0 - Move past

2020-12-13 00:22

winning vertigo vs vitality is impressive asf considering big's best map is by far nuke and we rarely see them on vertigo

HLTV biased.

2020-12-13 09:54

NaVi needs to replace Boombl4 with Neo, only way to success

2020-12-13 00:53

Lmfao where are all the trash'vi and s0mple kids talking shit after the first match? Dogshit 0 major 0 IGS shit team

GG electronic

2020-12-12 23:46

4 decoys weren’t enough for s1mple but even now with 5 decoys it’s still not enough to win tournaments.

2020-12-13 00:20

As expected

2020-12-13 00:27

Ez for dev1ce

2020-12-13 00:30

Good try s1mpletronic

Astralis played great!

2020-12-13 02:08

Same old to rubbish. S1mple and Electronic with 3 bots

2020-12-13 02:15

Benched wrong player on first map.

2020-12-13 03:20

DEV4CE >>>> S0MPLE BOT

2020-12-13 04:00

Astralis looks amazing. Still TOP1

2020-12-13 06:05

s0mple TOP1 BAITER

2020-12-13 07:29

fluke onliners

2020-12-13 07:49

+1 navi win against furia was fluke

2020-12-13 08:14

:DDDDDDDDDD

2020-12-13 08:23

This guy's brain so small he's not even trollink

2020-12-13 09:39

hahahaha.. aaand there we go again. maybe its not the best to rely on 1or 2 players to win rofl.

2020-12-13 09:50

expected gg astralis

2020-12-13 14:57

Navi has no confidence against Astrails as they knew it's a fluke last time.

2020-12-13 15:26

They won 2-0 in Beijing and 2-1 in BLAST so not a fluke. And they won them on lan earlier this year....

2020-12-13 16:04

Train pick really backfired on NaVi, Nuke/D2 would have been better. Well, maybe NaVi gets revenge again in Global Finals.

2020-12-13 16:06

S1mple 1vs9....

2020-12-13 16:23

He got so much bait in his team and still not put up better stats. lmao

2020-12-14 04:05

"ASTRALIS MOVE PAST NAVI" More like "Astralis crush navi and shows how stupid they are"

2020-12-14 04:04

Astralis move past NAVI to consolidation final at BLAST Premier

Don't want to miss news like NiKo missed s1mple?