sdy steps in for NAVI ahead of BLAST Spring Final

3-6-2022 19:03

The Ukrainian player joins as a stand-in on loan from MAD Lions.

Natus Vincere will be using Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev as their fifth player at their upcoming LAN tournament, BLAST Premier Spring Final, in the wake of Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov's departure from the active lineup.

The 25-year-old player, most known for his tenure in Spirit, joined as a stand-in on free loan from MAD Lions who closed down their CS:GO division in April. Natus Vincere explained that sdy's future with the team will depend on his performance at the event in Lisbon, Portugal.

The former Spirit player will fill in for NAVI

"I'll be on loan to Natus Vincere for BLAST and maybe more," sdy wrote on Twitter after the announcement. "That's a huge opportunity that I will try to use in the best way. Let’s make Ukraine proud."

NAVI: No talks for YEKINDAR, electroNic considered for IGL role

sdy will have his debut in the Natus Vincere jersey on June 15 when the Black and Yellow face off against a new-look OG. The addition of a player not known for in-game leading implies that Natus Vincere has gone forward with the plan of utilizing Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov as their primary caller at the tournament.

Natus Vincere now have the following roster:

Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev
Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov
Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy
Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy
Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev (stand-in)

Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy (coach)

2022-06-03 19:04

Nice, hope he will use this chance wisely

6 replies

HOT

2022-06-03 19:10

2022-06-03 19:25

easy 4 navi with standin boost

2022-06-03 19:31

JKS-type moment for him. GL!

2022-06-03 20:16

2022-06-03 22:31

Good pick ngl

No 1

plz no

1 reply

PLZ NOOOOOOOO

2022-06-03 22:13

not bad

ofc never understimate b1ad3 picks

2022-06-20 00:34

Can be a good pick

lol navi tier 2 now

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At least navi doesnt lose to teams with multiple stand ins LUL

2022-06-03 19:12

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banger xd

2022-06-03 20:41

2022-06-04 00:38

well g2 losing to tier 3 anonymo, ence with stand-in and to mouz xDD

2022-06-03 19:21

lmao g2 fan

2022-06-03 19:37

reminder that the last time g2 won a tournament is 5 years ago

2022-06-03 19:46

3 replies

beast

2022-06-03 23:06

technically they won the betway blast cup or something insignificant in 2021

2022-06-08 03:55

if i'm not mistaken it's a group win. not a whole "tournament"

2022-06-08 16:34

2022-06-03 20:33

g2 is borderline tier 2 xd

2022-06-04 05:21

lol

2022-06-03 19:05

Somedieyoung, what an incredible name tbh

4 replies

haha i always liked it too, really edgy too

2022-06-03 19:09

2022-06-03 21:07

+1 always has been my favorite pro username

2022-06-03 21:10

2022-06-07 02:51

Rip mir :/

10 replies

Probably didnt want to relocate, coz I dont see any other reason why wouldnt thay take him

2022-06-03 19:30

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He's supposedly hard to work with, and I can't imagine s1mple dealing with that.

2022-06-03 21:32

Because they definitely had a goal not to sign a russian, those aren't the times when you do this

2022-06-03 21:51

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they still have 15+ russian players across all the esport teams they own including 2 in csgo team

2022-06-03 23:08

you got the difference between signing a new player and having one in current roster, right?

2022-06-03 23:10

there is no difference if both still pays their taxes to russia, right?

2022-06-03 23:11

The fanbase doesn't give a fck, they look at what's on the surface

2022-06-03 23:13

ofc, cuz there are putin' ass lickers like simple

2022-06-03 23:23

being russian is not a ko-criteria, they just don't have to passively support nazi russia with taxes

2022-06-03 23:09

They are could, as they haos said in interview, they are focused on ukrainian players, but didn't deny to sing ru one if they can't find a substitute and if he relocate and having ok position ofc

2022-06-04 09:33

lmao

Hey he finnally joins navi lmao

he get kicked in spirit because not good , shit another s1mple carrying game

2022-06-03 19:22

in Spirit he was still rated above 1.10 along with degster and mir and he was kicked because the band wanted to try something new because the current line-up stopped working and played like Complexity now

2022-06-03 21:20

he left spirit didnt get kicked. again hltv morons talking out of their asses :DD

2022-06-04 07:53

He left spirit, spirit said they disband due to salary conflicts, their performance was ok for org

2022-06-04 09:35

pog

LOL T3 navi vibes

2022-06-03 19:06

even you know deep down this ain't gonna happen

2022-06-03 19:24

s1mple can play with 4 supremes and they'll still be T1 team lol

2022-06-03 19:55

Oh nice! It's showtime 😎

Lets Go, NAVI back on Ukraine flag!

they were back on ukranian flag for like 3 months

I wonder why

2022-06-03 19:27

I thought electronic was Russian?

2022-06-03 22:22

Exactly how many tanks did he command? You’re a FaZe fan. Just because they have 5 employees doesn’t mean America doesn’t win when they win

2022-06-03 23:12

He still could be kicked, some rumors about him arise

2022-06-04 09:37

4 years with 4 idiots. Carried the team. The mascot of NaVi Also now IGL. You might be wrong.

2022-06-05 01:37

i said there is a rumors, its not mean that they will kick him, but there is the chance is not to say that 50%, but its worth considering

2022-06-05 13:24

LETSGO SDY

pogg sdy

Very underrated player

2022-06-03 19:07

I thought they would take russian

let's see

unexpected

make or break for him imo...

Cool

2022-06-03 19:08

The situation seems to be bad enough to force Simple to put his differences aside.

What's the story between them ?

2022-06-03 20:09

From what people have said over the years, Simple allegedly hates (hated?) SDY for some reason.

2022-06-03 22:53

sdy in 2022 nice lol

if you watch fpl sdy always die like noob losing every duel getting bullied

thats why wrote "lol"

I think you will see a much different SDY on Navi

2022-06-03 22:23

Seems like a good move, not many ukranian players with T1 level. Wondering, who's gonna be the IGL???

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Electronic

>Sdy >T1 level Pick one

If boomba was considered t1, theres no way sdy cant be considered t1, lol

2022-06-03 19:19

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boomba is better than sdy tho

2022-06-03 19:23

2022-06-03 19:39

he wasn't until zeus and blade made him into a somewhat capable igl

2022-06-03 21:14

No fucking way he is a good igl, nafany good igl, boom is pure bot.

2022-06-04 09:39

Damn, you are trying to bait too hard

he just doesn't know shit about roles

What about roles? Blade and zeus made bomba a somewhat capable igl, it's not like he is talented or something, he won't achieve anything without navi

2022-06-03 21:16

Before Spirit went into a downfall, they were playing well. And say wasn't the problem, more of chopper not being q good fragger and/or IGL. He has improved now.

2022-06-03 19:54

It's not a T1 lvl anyways

2022-06-04 02:12

Upgrade for navi

ofcourse they pickup ukrainian smh...

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yeah, should've picked a Brazilian instead

u'r not brazilian

2022-06-03 21:30

well, neither are you

2022-06-03 21:33

lol, they don't have many variants at this moment, sdy is one of the best as a stand-in. Even if he is ukrainian, so what? They can do what they want. stop being clown

2022-06-03 21:48

The point I think is that they did what they did only because boomych is from Russia and sdy is from Ukraine. It's not that the move made any sense.

2022-06-07 20:55

Lmaooo

some die young some die old

HAHAHAHAHAH

2022-06-03 19:50

Mir? Aunkere? Fear? Headtr1ck? Yekindar? Patsi? S1ren? Fl1t?

can't IGL

Neither can sdy, electronic will IGL

2022-06-03 19:15

sdy is an igl lol

2022-06-03 19:20

wtf are you talking about, he won't be igling Navi

2022-06-03 21:57

he could be if they gave him a shot

Not as a stand-in in such tournament lol Use brain

2022-06-04 15:56

And most of them are either russian or owned vu russian orgs

2022-06-03 20:11

Mir , Patsi, S1ren, Fl1t , Aunkere from Russia. They will not take Russians in squad

And what are Electronic and Perfecto? Living in Ukraine they will be able to play for NAVI

I don't know about Perfecto right now. But long time before war started, he was living for wild in Kiev. (He said that on S1mple stream what lives in Kiev, long time ago) But then moved back to Russia, maybe to his parents , I don't know. Electronic doesn't need go to Ukraine. He can move to every single country except Russia. Boombl4 go kicked becouse of his wife. Even B1t admitted it , on his stream. She posted photos with Russian tanks and was writing some stupid things about Ukrain and war in telegram channel. If not her , Boombl4 still be in Navi.

2022-06-03 20:07

+1 and yekindar&FL1T are from russian orgs, so they won't buy them for obvious reasons

2022-06-03 19:29

NaVi won’t buy players from Russian orgs and if players don’t wanna relocate then they won’t take them. Also academy players are prolly not ready for t1

2022-06-03 19:52

Mir - idk Aunkere, Fear, Headtr1ck - worse than sdy Patsi, S1ren - have contract with top5 team, buy out price would be too high Yekindar - has contract with sanctioned org Fl1t - has contarct with org sponsored by sanctioned company

2022-06-05 00:09

Nice. Go back to somedieyoung though

Nice, he is a good player, can help with the calls, can play more supportive roles as well.

2022-06-03 19:13

Better than Buster.

eh we'll see

2022-06-03 19:18

nicoodoz and roej better

As a Russian speaker!!!

told ya

navi with ukrainian flag again pog

2022-06-03 19:16

They were for quite a long time before

2022-06-03 19:28

Snax was taken?

Cuz we all know snax speaks russian fluently

2022-06-03 19:49

it would be awesome to pick snax or smooya, they could swap smh for those picks, also na'vi players speak englando and snax could try to integrate but they wanted ukrainians not the worst pick ngl, he has some potential; if he listens to na'vi calls like b1t he will grow also

nice

Damn yeh pressure on him is insane hope he copes and performs

2022-06-03 19:17

Pretty nice

Well good luck bro

last chance for a good team gl Vitya

less go

Goodluck bro, nice chance to shine. Maybe it opens some career options for him.

Sdy about boombI4 career

i wanted the change to be +him. i hope he performs well and he stays with the navi roster. cool guy

who??

Someone who is better than comedian

finally

navi tier 5

decent replacement, definitely better than any of their academy players. on the other hand the pressure on sdy must be really high to perform in this event since it decides his future massively, gl

finally ua flag is deserved :)

+1 :D That dilemma is now resolved. CSGO teams fakeflagging smh...

NAVI should go all ukrainian roster

2022-06-03 20:25

Well.. idk but gl!

2022-06-03 19:26

Headtrick would be better

Cracked team

wasn't good enough for spirit,but gl

GL 💛🖤

This ain't it chief

expected

Should've kept boombl4 and give him a 2nd chance tbh and preserve the roaster all teams have had ups and downs it happens, not sure if sdy going to bring a plus to the team, guy is sure skilled, but it's always risky to make such moves, look at G2 for exemple, they are completely lost

I agree and kind of shocked a team who just made major finals is doing a roster change but if his wife was posting stuff about the war I can see how that would affect the team

2022-06-03 22:42

Should keep the war thing and politics out of the game he has a career to manage, she should know better, his wife or whatever, but kicking him this fast is kinda weird if not dumb at the same time, don't know what they were thinking unless something which we really don't know about happened

2022-06-04 00:23

pretty clear the players and staff weren't comfortable with that situation. don't think they'd do something like that unless they really felt it was necessary

2022-06-04 00:51

Makes sense when you say it that way and considering what they achieved the past 1.5 years, must of been super necessary

2022-06-04 02:27

his wife posted him taking drugs thats why NaVi decided to kick him

2022-06-09 16:37

MIR? pls man

they're not going to take new russian players anytime soon

2022-06-03 19:32

i see... Why not headtrick instead? electronic igl? mmmm hope works well

2022-06-03 19:36

nice I guess, underrated player imo

good

2022-06-03 19:33

great choice but idk how electronic gonna lead them

Electronic must have been doing a lot of secondary calling to be able to take this on. It will be interesting to see their first match

2022-06-03 22:45

Blad3 did most of the set-pieces anyway. And you can see elec and s1mple talking way more than Boom during midrounds so i think they'll be fine with the calls. Maybe use some more timeouts to get blad3 on the mic.

2022-06-14 12:32

Fuck yea hope he does well

2022-06-03 19:34

Pog. if elec igl works and sdy does well, this NaVi is stronger than with boombl4

I Remeber when it was London 2018 and SDY was playing super good and everyone called for SDY to join NaVi then

Legend Sticker prices go brrr

2022-06-03 19:38

upgrade lol

2022-06-03 19:42

2022-06-03 19:43

GL <3

2022-06-03 19:44

Picking a dude clearly not good enough even for t2 (got benched in mad lions ffs) just cause of nationality. S1mple leaving this team that doesnt want to win anymore within 6 months is highly likely.

2022-06-03 19:45

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bro with all the respect for Canadians stfu!

2022-06-03 19:51

You meant Canadians Mr Serbiapowerhouse

AAHHAH fake-flagger in 2022 wp virgin

Not even fake flagging, there is not a way to prove it to you tho without doxxing myself or leaking my ip

KOSOVO AT MAJOR UR COUNTRY...

Yes but still, we are more chads and also Cyprus has millionaire investors, Bootleg Albanian Serbia has 0 investors maybe talk to me when your country becomes first world, but I gues the first step is for you to get your country to be real, and we were the first with our island on the flag

2022-06-03 19:57

BRO who the fk knows where cyprus is at? fr now man please 0 teams 0 players 0 celebs cmn bro show some respect

Mb search, Marcos Baghdatis, Eutixios Ellinas, 2011 champions League playoffs team and guess what, we could have gone even further if we weren't matched with real

2022-06-03 19:59

WHO THE FK KNOWS THEM? DUA LIPA XHERDAN SHAQIRI GRANIT XHAKA FUNNY FACT: AN ALBANIAN HAS WON WOLRD CUP CRY

2022-06-03 20:00

You claim to be from 'kosovo' but brag about accomplished Albanians. Nice logic mens, unless you agree your country doesnt exist and you are just an Albanian living in Serbia

2022-06-03 20:15

Bro we are albanians HLTV ADD THE FLAG SO WE ARE REAL COUNTRY SO U ARE SAYING U SMARTER THAN HLTV? CRY HATER KOSOVO > CIRPUSO

Nobody would say the first part to your flag lol.

2022-06-03 21:13

SLAVA UKRAINA

2022-06-03 21:24

Who's speaking ahahah

2022-06-03 22:19

Mad lions org disbanded in Cs they didn't bench him

2022-06-03 20:24

That's a bit harsh

2022-06-03 20:43

People said the same thing when Perfecto was picked :) Blad3's system can turn any player into world beater..

It's last chance for him. He can do this, and stay in Navi. Good Luck : )

2022-06-03 19:47

Stand-in boost inc

Essentially, this is a make or break situation for sdy. He has to defy all odds and step up massively, which I don't know if he will but I hope so. Good luck to him and NaVi.

Perfecto did it a couple of years ago. I'm sure sdy will do the same :)

I sure hope so!

2022-06-03 23:26

gl sdy strong af

"The addition of a player not known for in-game leading implies that Natus Vincere has gone forward with the plan of utilizing Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov as their primary caller at the tournament." wasn't sdy the secondary caller in Spirit too?

I hated navi as a org. Now u hate them more.

2022-06-03 19:53

g2 fan talking

2022-06-03 22:37

SORRY I AM NOT A FAN OF G2.. THERE IS SOME BUG.. i HATE G2

2022-06-03 23:48

wow, sry hahahahhaahahaha

2022-06-04 10:57

will be interesting for sure

Daaaaamnnn, gl sdy. Soo they won't add another Ruski?

As they are 5 now, probably not.

pretty solid tbh

2022-06-03 19:58

Guess he won't have an easy start as the players don't seem to be okay with the removal of boomblaaa. They might be a bit edgy to the new one, no matter who will finally be taking the spot.

2022-06-03 20:03

Worst replacement. The guy who kicked from Spirit

2022-06-03 20:14

That was his personal decision as he didn't believe in Spirit's rebuild.

2022-06-03 21:02

expectations - Yekindar reality -sdy who is average at the best for 2+year,but ok maybe it will be a golden opportunity to show off

Good pick from navi

woro2k > sdy, bad choice

2022-06-03 20:19

woro too fishy)))

2022-06-03 20:29

welcome to tier 3

2022-06-03 20:23

Flag check XDDD

2022-06-03 22:15

somedieyoung, woro2k and sensei in and full ukraina roster in coming

both woro2k and sensei are awpers, can't see them joining, unless s1mple wants to drop awp role

2022-06-03 20:31

Ahahah SDY, lmao really anyone> SDY

2022-06-03 20:30

Hell yeah good to see sdy get another chance. Hopefully he’ll do well with them

Not bad standin. GL to sdy and NaVi.

2022-06-03 20:32

I thought s1mple hates him.

2022-06-03 20:39

Solid pickup

2022-06-03 20:47

rip. they wont make it past the first round without boombl4 and his info grabbing and play calling.

2022-06-03 20:48

true. should have kept russian captain in the team)

Good luck Sandy!

2022-06-03 20:51

Whether Viktor continues to play for NAVI in the future depends on his performance in the upcoming tournament.

2022-06-03 20:54

unexpected tbh but probably because he is free and ukranian

2022-06-03 21:09

Ez win now.

Nice downgrade

2022-06-03 21:18

sdy played well 2 years ago at the CIS level, it will probably work out if not, then you will have to try 1 more Ukrainian, and then return to the Russians.

2022-06-03 22:09

LET'S FUCKING GOOO. SHOW THEM ALL SDY 🔥🔥🔥

2022-06-03 22:14

RIP NAVI

2022-06-03 22:20

and why is perfecto and electronic not an issue for the org? they pay taxes in russia too arent they?

2022-06-03 22:29

Not that bad actually

2022-06-03 22:32

kibaken come back to navi too

2022-06-03 22:34

Proud for Navi! Very good choice! Somple numba one...

2022-06-03 22:39

Sdy can do it

No ppl can take over BIGboom's position, Navi is braindead.

2022-06-03 22:46

its a out of game issue

2022-06-03 22:49

i wonder who is going to igl

2022-06-03 22:48

SDYGOD

2022-06-03 22:54

NICE

2022-06-03 22:57

Our new hope! DAVAYE!

2022-06-03 23:00

SDY GOD <3

2022-06-03 23:03

hi! This masseege from our AI chat mesenger! How you diskribe BomiI4 kick from 1 to 5 points?

GOD SDY LETS GO

nice, i think he's one of the better options/stand-ins they could have gotten. Hope he does well, he did well in Spirit, but that was rather a team problem there. Still kinda hoping that it's just temporary, until they can get Yekindar

2022-06-03 23:14

VP greedy, yakindar not gonna happen ever

2022-06-04 09:46

nah...bad pick... fck ignorants cry

2022-06-11 13:37

From all the players they took this guy...

2022-06-03 23:28

not expected but interesting to see

2022-06-03 23:52

If you have seen s1mple playing you know he is very talkative. It's most certain that it will have duo leading the squad foward including ele.

2022-06-04 00:08

Pog

2022-06-04 00:16

this aint it

2022-06-04 00:17

Seems legit.

2022-06-04 01:12

idk maybe they can develop his talents? it's IS NAVI after all they have a talent for finding skills in players and finding ways to integrate them for a good outcome

2022-06-04 03:35

why not someone from their academy team? at this point navi junior is a training ground for players that will stomp them in the future

2022-06-04 05:40

all because a ho destroyed a career hahahaahahahaha

2022-06-04 07:28

VP such an a-hole org. Benching Yekindar but not letting him go

2022-06-04 07:47

he can go, and wtf does this have to do with this post. They need either russian or ukrainian player

2022-06-04 09:10

Yekindar speaks russian and he's very good, so...

2022-06-04 09:26

He has a contract with VP, if Navi is unwilling to buy him thats their problem.

2022-06-04 11:16

I know, but VP is directly tied with government of Russia afaik, so ofc it's not an option for Na'Vi.

2022-06-04 11:33

2022-06-04 09:16

Welcome to NaVi Hope it goes well :) #NAVINATION

I remind you that that he and ange1 was contenders to navi with boombl4 after zeus retirement. The difference is the spot he will play

2022-06-04 09:42

3 years ago tho

2022-06-04 15:14

2022-06-04 09:43

best of luck to him! ps. stop whining little nerd kids

2022-06-04 11:09

2022-06-04 11:24

It's getting tough for NaVi... I'm kinda sad it all has to end like this.

2022-06-04 13:08

why this type of player.. i give him one week for the bench

2022-06-04 17:52

idiot

2022-06-04 21:17

damn.

2022-06-04 23:47

sdy is a good player... but electronc igling....lol... RIP NAVI

2022-06-05 21:33

NOBODY can get info like boombl4, that guy knows where EVERYONE is at ALL TIMES. going to miss boombl4 and i'm the furthest person to be a Navi fan. :/

2022-06-06 11:52

No longer 6 plane seats for 5 men roster XD

2022-06-06 12:10

0-16

2022-06-07 08:17

Actually very Nice Now -perfecto and +j3kie/+kvem And you have a pretty much unbeatable roster Maybe -electronic +w0nderful for full Ukraine roster but electronic so good so i don’t see it happening :(

2022-06-07 23:30