Highlights: b1t runs circles around m0NESY in Esports World Cup grand final

22-7-2024 16:12

b1t ruined m0NESY's day with a 14-3 score in duels in NAVI's wins on Nuke and Inferno. Here are 10 clips from the one-sided battle between the former teammates.

Heading into championship Sunday at the Esports World Cup, Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy was trailing by quite some distance behind Ihor "⁠w0nderful⁠" Zhdanov and Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač in the HLTV MVP race.

But while his main rivals slowed down in the title decider, b1t turned it up a notch with a 1.45 and 1.74 rating in Natus Vincere's wins on Nuke and Inferno to snatch the award away and claim his career-first HLTV medal.

Everything seemed to be going his way, and that counted double whenever he was up against Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov. The Ukrainian kept running circles around his former NAVI Junior teammate and off-the-server friend, going 14-3 in duels against him in the two map wins that earned Natus Vincere their second title this year.

Always looking to make a difference, m0NESY is not one to stay in one place for too long, but that kept working against the flashy AWPer this time around as he was clearly off the mark. He was growing increasingly frustrated and impatient as b1t put his pinpoint aim on display and, on occasion, found just the right timings to ruin m0NESY's day.

b1t vs. m0NESY in 10 clips

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1. Nuke, round 1: b1t punishes m0NESY's search

2. Nuke, round 3: b1t divebombs m0NESY

3. Nuke, round 7: b1t finds the flank

4. Nuke, round 11: m0NESY relieved after NiKo makes up for his miss

5. Nuke, round 13: b1t vs. m0NESY duel turns the pistol

6. Nuke, round 14: b1t finds another flank

7. Nuke, round 16: b1t ruins m0NESY again

8. Inferno, round 1: b1t picks off m0NESY in third consecutive pistol

9. Inferno, round 8: "Wow" m0NESY can't believe b1t's lightning-fast peek

10. Inferno, round 17: m0NESY punches the desk after another loss to b1t

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2024-07-22 16:12

ez4b1t

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Reminds me of the Dust2 1v1 b1t and m0nesy had right when b1t got promoted and m0nesy was still on NaVi Junior and b1t CLEARED m0nesy the whole time

2024-07-22 17:03

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lmao i remember that video good times

2024-07-22 17:27

Former teammates and good friends, both amazing players but b1t just wrecks him in officials like Aleksi wrecks his former teams.

2024-07-22 21:13

last clip m0nesy slamming desk HLTV d1 haters

wanna see them be on the same team in the future

2024-07-22 16:14

all this m0nesy hate and b1t praise, lets not forget that these two are literally best friends clips.twitch.tv/RefinedNeighborlyShrimpB..

2024-07-22 16:30

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Its mentioned in the article

2024-07-22 16:28

b1t really abused his friend in this finals.

we really needed an article full of clips of b1t owning m0NESY? lol

2024-07-22 16:32

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there was one on m0nesy owning s1mple , so why not the other way around

2024-07-22 16:37

Yes.

2024-07-22 16:50

Yes

2024-07-22 18:32

B1t pretty much shut him completely down in this bo3, biggest reason why they won

2024-07-22 18:35

Now imagine b1t, m0nesy, donk in one team under b1ad3 coaching.

2024-07-22 16:39

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and we have the best CIS team of all time? probably but russian flag ... will look ugly

2024-07-22 17:04

dance dance

2024-07-22 17:33

donk m0nesy b1t zont1x sdy(?) ukr flag then

2024-07-22 17:37

new astana dragons -sdy tho +chopper, electronic or boombla

2024-07-23 07:11

who realistically cares about how the flag looks as long as their gameplay isn't ugly?

2024-07-22 18:24

Yes, expose this fraud.

b1t and monesy are friends and play a lot together sometimes that's bad because you know how the other person is gonna play and the other way around

2024-07-22 17:05

annihilated by goat b1t <3

2024-07-22 17:42

b1t > donk+monesy

2024-07-22 18:17

Striker, my man, one of the HLTV goats, this has to be an article that looked way better in concept than on paper, right? Aside from highlights #4 and #9, which are sick and skillful entries, this is worse than a dev1ce highlight reel from his Astralis days, chaining together 3 tripwire AWP kills. Are the kills important? Yes. Are the kills impactful? Some are. Are the kills special? Nah. I guess this goes to show that you don't have to have exciting and flashy kills to be impactful, but I would argue that this is not the intent of this article. It's nice to see those two young but already battle hardened players playing (each other) but the highlights ain't it, chief, sorry.

2024-07-22 18:34

It was never meant to be some highlight reel of the flashiest plays. It's about how this duel shaped the match and why b1t made m0NESY's game pretty frustrating

2024-07-22 23:02

Fair, and thank you for your response. I think I got a bit confused by the b1t vs m0NESY narrative then, because imo it was more of a team effort from NAVI to make the game frustrating for m0NESY and b1t seemed to be the one flanking, boxing them in and executing the counterplays but that's splitting hairs at this point. SInce it seemed to be mostly b1t, mostly punishing G2's plays and their best player m0NESY, I understand where the narrative and article comes from. Cheers!

2024-07-23 19:28