NAVI eliminate Complexity from BLAST Premier Global Final

21-1-2021 18:00

The CIS giants live to fight another day in the $1 million tournament after a hard-fought victory.

Natus Vincere beat Complexity 2-1 in the first round of the BLAST Premier Global Final lower bracket, setting up a match against the loser of Astralis and G2 on Friday. The international team, who are playing the event with Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen as a stand-in, scrapped an overtime win on Mirage, but Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov's men turned things around following an easy win on Nuke and a tight game on Inferno.

The action started on Mirage, the same map that had Complexity picked against Vitality on Wednesday. Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer's men dominated the first half and cruised to a 12-3 lead as Natus Vincere's passive approach allowed the Terrorists to get mid control in most of the rounds. The international team, however, made the same mistake in the second half, allowing NAVI to mount a comeback and push the game to overtime.

electronic was the top fragger of the series

Complexity won two out of their three CT side rounds in extra time and switched to the T side with a small advantage. They lost their first T side round and came close to losing the second as well, but JUGi won a massive 1v2 clutch with 10 seconds left on the clock. With momentum on their side, they rushed B to win the game.

Natus Vincere displayed a great T side on Nuke and won nine consecutive rounds until JUGi stopped their streak with a beautiful triple kill on the B tunnels, with Complexity winning three more rounds in the half. Although the CIS side lost their first three CT rounds after the break, they regained control once Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev started AWPing and quickly wrapped things up.

On Inferno, Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy subbed in Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy for Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev as usual, but the youngster didn't have much impact in the first half and Natus Vincere were down 8-7 after a lacklustre defensive showing, despite s1mple and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov combining for 26 kills.

NAVI picked themselves up and won the second pistol round, also fending off two force-buys. Complexity still fought back, but then s1mple broke their momentum with a spectacular 1v4 clutch, with b1t winning a 1v2 situation shortly afterwards to steer his side across the finish line.

BLAST Premier Global Final 2020Best of 3

Complexity

Matchpage

21st January 2021

Natus Vincere

Mirage

Nuke

Inferno

Complexity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer blameF	62 - 50	+12	68.3	71.3%	1.11
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	56 - 64	-8	80.5	73.6%	1.02
Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen JUGi	49 - 56	-7	64.1	72.4%	0.92
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	50 - 69	-19	68.2	62.1%	0.86
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	44 - 53	-9	51.3	69.0%	0.86

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	75 - 48	+27	94.1	77.0%	1.40
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	70 - 51	+19	78.4	72.4%	1.29
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov Boombl4	61 - 57	+4	77.3	75.9%	1.20
Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Perfecto	46 - 53	-7	57.8	73.6%	0.93
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy b1t	12 - 15	-3	39.8	70.4%	0.83
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	25 - 38	-13	57.6	58.3%	0.72

2021-01-21 18:01

2 replies

col tier 3

2021-01-21 18:03

1 reply

col should return to NA at this point, thats pathetic

2021-01-22 05:48

We will win this tournament

9 replies

Destroyed by Liquid, almost lost to coL with JUGi as stand-in, what makes u say this? :) This actually takes away the glory for Liquid, this shows that it wasnt them being amazing but NaVi being in terrible form :/

sant

2021-01-21 18:05

i wanna to see a final against Vitality or Astralis ,if we (NaVi)lose or win them it will be so beautiful.I missed for beautiful CS .GLHF

2021-01-21 18:14

Agree, but Navi BETTER NOT lose 3rd final in a row.

2021-01-21 18:15

I hope so,but if they will play against Astralis ,NaVi will be so tired

2021-01-24 15:49

2021-01-21 19:08

Nope 😆

2021-01-21 20:48

Didn’t age well :D

2021-01-24 23:46

GOD <3

2021-01-24 23:43

col nothing without obo

ob0 iq is lil mommy boy, go home to NA

2021-01-21 18:50

I hope Jugi will be 5th player for Complexity

2021-01-21 18:02

6 replies

U hate coL? :)

2021-01-21 18:34

4 replies

No, I don't. imo Jugi is better than poizon,I want to see complexity improve not fall (sorry my Englando)

2021-01-21 18:39

3 replies

Good englando, fully understood:) I think poizon is amazing when he’s in form, right before he went away I’d say he was a top3 awper in the world

2021-01-21 18:47

he was in a bit of a slump but i’m very sure that was because of whatever he needed surgery for, he was in a car crash earlier last year so that might be it. but you’re definitely right poizon early last year looked actually amazing it was a joy to watch when he took over the game against good teams

2021-01-21 19:16

100% agreed :)

2021-01-21 20:00

Dudeee cant agree more

2021-01-22 01:20

PogU

Seems like NaVi didn't fix their old problems and rely mostly on individual performance, but it's still enough to beat joke teams like CoL. Boom was very solid today.

7 replies

nuke T side was good actually,that NaVi can beat anyone!!!

2021-01-21 18:04

They seem unprepared for this tournament. Too long break? Ilness in the team?

2021-01-21 18:36

It's the same old story with NaVi. They always say they will work harder and prepare more, and in the end it is always up to s1mple and electronic to drag them over the finish line

2021-01-21 19:27

Indeed, inconsistent due to relying on s1mple and elec. s1mple very rarely has bad games, but when he does (happens to everyone, even him) NaVi kinda su**

2021-01-21 20:03

They really don't have any solid teamplay or structure to fall back on when their stars don't perform, which is why I think as a TEAM they suck. They can count their lucky stars that s1mple is so ridiculously consistent and elec has such a high peak.

2021-01-21 20:17

Well put! Totally agree

2021-01-21 20:27

GodTronic and S1mple clutches saved Navi cant get any better than this

+1 Good to see BIG BOOM finally fragging today after saving frags from the last 6 months.

2021-01-21 19:07

Hahaha true

2021-01-21 19:18

chokenic lucky

2021-01-22 13:07

expected

Gg but another carry by s1 and elec.Happy that boombla also joined.

+1 ez4navi

2021-01-21 19:09

PAPATRONIC

Papatronic true #2 2020

b00mbl4 true goat

s1mple is the goat*

2021-01-21 19:06

my favorite team is dead. I join the fans of faze

gj electronic, s1mple and big boom!

2021-01-21 18:06

Thanks for the interesting game

2021-01-21 18:07

bring back obo u cowards

2021-01-21 18:10

I think obo is the coward in this case. Honestly hope he finds the will to move to EU

2021-01-21 18:13

hes been willing to move to europe for over 3 weeks twitter.com/oBoCSGO/status/1344199117975..

he fucked up big time, can't see him back in col

2021-01-21 18:56

What happened with jks? He's playing so bad since joining col.

2021-01-21 18:26

Probably didnt get the same positions/role as he had in 100T + needs time to adapt to a new style of play. + he wasnt in the best form at the last couple of months with 100T either. I think he’s doin his role pretty well, seems like he’s not supposed to be the starplayer of this team

2021-01-21 18:38

its kinda sad because tbh is is a better player than blameF

2021-01-21 19:25

Can’t campare them like that while he’s the IGL, but i’d say jks>k0nfig :)

2021-01-21 20:01

They play with a new 5th all the damn time, it's really draining the whole team's motivation I think

2021-01-21 19:29

Nice match. At the 1st half at mirage I was scared that team will throw match like yesterday. But finally boys woke up. Complexity is quite solid even with stand-in. P.S. Looks like B1t is stronger that Flamie now, looking to watch him not only on inferno but also on some other maps.

2021-01-21 18:27

I’m hoping that they’ll play b1t more and more, flamie hasn’t really put up a good performance in a while

2021-01-21 18:57

Yes i am afraid his time passed away

2021-01-21 21:22

it sucks too, i could always anticipate watching flamie while in his peak form (which always happened to be at majors). now i feel sad watching him.

2021-01-21 21:24

And they say Electronic is "bad" while he's the entry.

2021-01-21 18:28

Who says that D:

2021-01-21 18:32

a lot of people^^ especially s1mple delusional fanboys ^^ I don't need to quote names.

2021-01-21 19:10

S1mple god

2021-01-21 18:41

2021-01-21 19:05

EZ win for #1 team and #1 player in the world.

2021-01-21 18:46

s1mple 2021 must be 5th position rank and electronic will be top 2 and zywoo number one again and again

2021-01-21 18:48

nt irrelevant opinion

Struggling against Col with stand in , doesnt look good for Navi

2021-01-21 18:49

When kick bot flamie lol

-flamie -perfecto + blamef +ropz

2021-01-21 20:12

Perfecto is good

2021-01-22 07:41

they tried

2021-01-21 20:38

Electronic and simple were on fire, gg

2021-01-21 22:15

Na'Vi played like trash

2021-01-22 00:49

Navi is really good when Elec and S1mple both step up. But Flamie... If he keeps performing like that he needs to go. I mean it's not the first day he has been bottom-fragging.

2021-01-22 02:36

I don't think Complexity is playing their best, Jugi had some good clutches like the noscope quickshot in ot but BlameF seems to be tired. I think they may of lost their form and keep in mind this is a Complexity fan.

2021-01-22 21:44