NAVI Javelins are challenging Pigeons' hold on women's throne

19-5-2024 20:30

The Polish side snatched two titles away from the back-to-back Women's Team of the Year in the past month.

2023's second-best women's team is challenging for the throne

NAVI Javelins have claimed the Tradeit League FE Masters Season 3 title with a 3-1 victory over Pigeons in the best-of-five grand final.

Date	Matches
Tradeit League FE Masters Season 3
19/05/2024	Pigeons Finished 1:3 NAVI Javelins	Match

It is a crucial and another confidence-boosting win for the Polish team, who has now snatched the second title away from the long-time No. 1 in just over a month, after clinching first place over Pigeons in the European Pro League Female Season 1 in mid-April.

Date	Matches
European Pro League Female Season 1
16/04/2024	Pigeons Finished 1:2 NAVI Javelins	Match

For the Pigeons core, these are the first two tournament losses in over a year.

They have dominated the women's circuit by winning every season of ESL Impact League and countless online titles, and were named back-to-back Women's Team of the Year by HLTV in 2022 and 2023.

They come just a few months after Pigeons controversially decided to part ways with their long-time in-game leader, Ksenia "⁠vilga⁠" Kluenkova, despite their successes and brought in another veteran, Zainab "⁠zAAz⁠" Turkie.

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Their hold onto the women's throne is now weakening, with a crucial LAN showdown between them and NAVI Javelins around the corner and providing a chance for the Poles to take revenge for the previous two ESL Impact LANs that they lost to Nigma Galaxy.

The two rivals will play later this month in the ESL Impact League's Season 5 Finals, set to take place as part of the same festival as IEM Dallas from May 31-June 2.

ok but what is this photo?

2024-05-19 20:32

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they don't have any other hltv official photos of them all together xd

2024-05-19 20:43

what changing the igl can do for a team, very nice!

2024-05-19 20:34

8 replies

Who is igling now?

2024-05-19 20:44

7 replies

vicu instead of Angelka, they made the change before the last event they won

2024-05-19 21:12

6 replies

So vicu is the real polish cadian, not masked

2024-05-19 21:32

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both awpers, both igls but only one is winning tourneys vicu>cadian confirmed?

2024-05-19 22:05

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Checks out.

2024-05-20 03:45

idk about that, but juliano > cadian

2024-05-20 07:12

The difference is, that one is playing tier 1 and the other one tier 3 - 4 cs.

2024-05-21 14:18

nah liquid aint t3 yet, but t2 is fair to say

2024-05-21 19:40

congrats navi javelins, great work

2024-05-19 20:41

Historical

2024-05-19 21:45

EZ NAVI

2024-05-19 22:02

not on short news feed w0w

WOW. Great!

2024-05-20 00:17

WHAT A MOVE!!!

2024-05-20 00:29

EZ 4 NaVi! But my bet is on big Equipa winning Dallas. After watching today's loss I can't help but feel that they're details away from dominating the scene.

2024-05-20 00:43

2024-05-20 09:00

Congrats girls!

2024-05-20 10:19

Vilga has always been the key for success. She was present in every single lineup, that was considered superteam.

2024-05-20 10:47

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Removing vilga I can understand because of the age, so individual skill is under question, but she's like karrigan of women's scene in terms of recognized IGLs in the scene But then you bring in zAAz, who is the same age, just what are you doing at that point? Well, maybe teams think that in the core of zAAz, juliano and vilga first 2 had higher value. Maybe their success in Valorant as well made people think so.

2024-05-20 11:03