NAVI thrash ENCE in ESL Pro League quarter-finals

10-9-2021 17:50

The CIS squad were never in trouble against ENCE and await a rival in the semi-finals.

Natus Vincere have gotten themselves just two victories away from an Intel Grand Slam title, the team’s biggest motivation going into the ESL Pro League playoffs, after defeating ENCE 2-0 in the tournament’s quarter-finals.

"To complete this road we just need to play our game," Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev said about chasing the Intel Grand Slam. "Everyone understands the importance of each game right now."

s1mple and company will go on to play the winner of the second quarter-final of the day, which pits HEROIC and Liquid, both teams that have shown to be title contenders when taking their results in ESL Pro League into account.

electronic averaged a 1.54 rating in the series

Natus Vincere did not give ENCE any room on the international squad’s map pick of Ancient, starting on the preferred CT side and losing just two rounds as Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov wreaked havoc. Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov and company then took the second pistol round to cleanly close the map out without a hitch, 16-2.

On Nuke the two were even after six rounds, but Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi then won a crucial 1vs2 afterplant on A with a Desert Eagle to defuse the bomb and win the round for his team. Natus Vincere struck right back with a forcebuy to keep things close and s1mple then won a 1vs2 of his own to get his team ahead, 5-4, after which NAVI dominated the half, making it to double digits, 10-5.

Natus Vincere then secured the second pistol round and once again, like on Ancient, took it home without giving up a single round in the second half, ending it 16-5 to secure a spot in the semi-finals.

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10th September 2021

ENCE

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Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy b1t	35 - 17	+18	88.5	84.6%	1.54
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	41 - 22	+19	98.1	82.1%	1.54
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov Boombl4	32 - 23	+9	99.0	94.9%	1.50
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	34 - 24	+10	92.4	84.6%	1.43
Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Perfecto	34 - 19	+15	84.1	84.6%	1.36

ENCE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Olek 'hades' Miskiewicz hades	27 - 35	-8	77.1	66.7%	0.95
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi Spinx	22 - 35	-13	59.6	56.4%	0.74
Paweł 'dycha' Dycha dycha	21 - 35	-14	77.9	56.4%	0.73
Joonas 'doto' Forss doto	20 - 34	-14	57.1	56.4%	0.63
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Snappi	14 - 37	-23	42.4	38.5%	0.36

EZ4NAVI

2021-09-10 17:51

5 replies

Sad but expected NT ENCE 5-8th place it's great reasult after change GG

2021-09-10 17:57

2 replies

RL was dead on

2021-09-10 18:01

1 reply

Meme team ence always been trash

2021-09-10 19:10

2021-09-10 18:02

EZ4ENCE

2021-09-10 20:14

s1mple and NAVI so strong, how?

6 replies

This is not normally

2021-09-10 17:52

yes very unexpect

should see him computer

2021-09-10 20:59

Check him pc

2021-09-10 18:10

And game

2021-09-10 18:32

I hope stockholm won't have that damn game deficit

2021-09-10 18:27

lol

Expected Navi wins IGS now

10 replies

They need to win major too

9 replies

To win IGS they don't need to win a major. But if u mean it at all, that they need to win a major to establish themselves in a history, yes ur correct

2021-09-10 18:05

7 replies

Why is the major required? IGS is harder to achieve and shows dominant performance through the entire year. Major is only 1 tournament.

2021-09-10 18:13

Because is Major. And thats it. Somethings we cannot understand. Major is major.

2021-09-10 18:38

Why is the Stanley Cup required? It is only 20-30 games compared to 82 games season throughout the year. Why is NBA championship required? MLB: 162-game season! But it is only three playoff series wins that matters. Mind blowing. Why in Tennis Grand Slam victories values way more than No.1 in rating in the end of the year? Olympic Games? That lasts only 2 and a half weeks, and held only every four years. And so on.

mlb/nba/stanley cup bad comparisons, each season for those games is like one big tournament, and the playoffs are the direct result of the regular season that lasts multiple months. with csgo the majors are the highest profile tournaments, and mean a lot culturally, but ultimately winning multiple big tournaments (IEM, Blast, whatever) over the course of a year means more in terms of a team's dominance than winning one major.

2021-09-10 20:26

mlb/nba/stanley cup are good comparisons, because the post was about performance throughout the year versus one short tournament result. And nobody counts wins in tournaments over the course of a years.

2021-09-11 12:36

+1 Major has more prestige, but I dont really know why. The grand final is not even bo5. Even some players said in an interview (dont remember which one) that the major doesnt even feel differenet compared to other tournaments. Major should be more like the international. Once per year, the swiss system is ok I guess. And the playoffs should be all bo5. Or at least the grand final. The winner should be the team that plays the best cs in all the maps.

2021-09-10 21:33

Major has more prestige because it was hyped and artificially made an exceptional achievement.

2021-09-11 01:26

trust me they will they have found the pieces mindblowing s1mple big brain elec entry boombl4 edshot b1t clutchpresident perf

2021-09-11 09:10

so ez for best team

trolle

not surprised

epic job

Lmao Ence in 2021

Losing to top1 team that is in insanely good form isnt nothing to be embarrassed about, 5-8th place for ENCE is extremely good

2021-09-10 20:52

I expected a lot more( that wasn’t very intresting

trash true

32-7

NAVINATION

ACTUAL THRASHED

Hopefully liquid wins against heroic so we can have vintage fallen vs s1mple in semifinal.

2021-09-10 17:54

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2021-09-10 17:56

i want liquid navi semis and vitality navi finals i just thought navi vitality was the best matchup last year

personally I liked EPL12 final more

2021-09-10 18:14

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2021-09-10 19:02

Ohhhh yeah

2021-09-10 22:08

:( sad

2021-09-11 03:00

T H R A S H

Feels good, finally as a NaVi fan I feel the confidence in the team to destroy everyone(after 3 years).

Same man same +11 hopefully they win this grandslam

2021-09-10 17:53

Yes its been a long run of dissapointment but now we reap rewards

4 replies

Took them too long to replace flamie but glad they waited because b1t is insane.

2021-09-10 19:03

3 replies

Yes, couldn't ask for more!

2021-09-10 20:41

The fact that some Navi haters bashed on b1t when he came into Navi, just makes it even better :P

2021-09-10 20:51

They still try to with Perfecto even though not much longer he will be official clutch king.

2021-09-11 00:51

wtf those NaVi ratings LORD boombla

When lowest rating on a winning team is 1.35. U know they fking smurfed. Lol Ez4Navi #navination

holy shit, i didn't expect it, i thought it gonna be like 16-12 16-10

This performance from NAVI was the perfect example of team play.

HARD4ENCE

lulz

expected but wow very hard 4 ence

OOF

7 rounds 2 maps xD

Almost 32-0 for ence lul

Monstrous performance from Na'Vi. If they keep this up they'll get the IGS without breaking a sweat.

what can you do against a team with 1.35 rating on the lowest rated player

LETS GO

Perfecto 1.35? He really needs to step up 😅

2021-09-10 17:58

Navi need a lawyer because ence did not consent to getting screwed like that

Good for hades tho, to see him putting up almost 1.0 against this level of navi while dragging his team kicking and screaming

2021-09-10 17:59

he was consistent

+1 must have felt suffocating all game yet he still gave it everything

2021-09-10 19:09

NOTSOEZ4ENCE

DOTO KKKKKK That was quick, they are winning the final too for sure

2021-09-10 18:00

unlucky for ence xD

B1TGOD

expected since navi is probably the best team on both of those maps

2021-09-10 18:04

Zywoo real Top 1

s1mple not even 1.50 rating smh washed player 🙄🙄

2021-09-10 18:06

2021-09-10 18:23

I hope NaVi won't be overexcited before semi final. Heroic / Liquid are surely much stronger team than this mix ence roster.

2021-09-10 18:09

32-7 thats impressive

this game was the weakest in the whole tournament.

'trash' lol

GOD tier team vs lul tier team

2021-09-10 18:11

Ez for NaVi Expected

damn ence got destroyed, shame i didnt get to see the game

B1T is just insane... he is already top5 player and a star...

2021-09-10 18:22

Doto : "I prefer NAVI because I want to beat s1mple"

2021-09-10 18:24

2021-09-10 18:25

GG... feel bad for ence

2021-09-10 18:26

Expected

That was too fast

2021-09-10 18:28

2021-09-10 18:33

When you see s1mple not even close to top frag but having a great series, you see that NaVi is looking strong

2021-09-10 18:42

doto kekw

2021-09-10 18:57

Forze at least would put up a fight.

2021-09-10 19:04

expected

2021-09-10 19:21

TRASHED KKKKKKKK

2021-09-10 19:42

Navi Trash. Ence in ESL Quarter Finals GG EZ4ENCE

2021-09-10 20:00

EZ 4 ENCE OMEGALUL

2021-09-10 20:11

ahahaha EZ4ENCE

2021-09-10 20:20

Holy shit this NaVi is scary.

2021-09-10 20:49

Grand Slam

2021-09-10 21:25

Ouch

2021-09-10 22:02

another ez lan victory mofos

2021-09-10 22:04

2021-09-10 22:07

ahahaha lol

2021-09-11 01:22

This one was obvious ENCE will never be the same without the 5 finnish superstars it's fact

2021-09-11 01:46

The NaVi era is here. I called it. ENCE is a really good team, I hope they will stick to this roster and just play and practice, because it's surely a great team, but you know, don't expect them to win vs NaVi now, I don't think there is anyone that could beat NaVi so I wouldn't laugh at ENCE because of this, they had a good run.

2021-09-11 17:42