3DMAX head to 2-1 bracket over NAVI

6-10-2025 16:17

NAVI are staring into the face of elimination after a Maka-powered 3DMAX outlasted them in a long series.

Maka produced a highlight of the year contender on Train

3DMAX have booked themselves a spot in the 2-1 pool at ESL Pro League thanks to a hard-fought win over Natus Vincere, clinching wins on Inferno (13-11) and Nuke (13-8) either side of a loss on Train (11-13).

Natus Vincere will be left wondering what could have been had they not started slow in every map of the series, kicking things off 0-5, 1-7 and 2-7 on Inferno, Train and Nuke respectively.

On Inferno the European combine were even 6-12 down at one point, mounting a sterling CT-side comeback that fell short at the final hurdle.

Maka serves up clip of the year contender with three back-to-back one-taps

Natus Vincere managed to get their comeback over the line on Train, despite some heroic play by Bryan "⁠Maka⁠" Canda that included an absolutely outrageous 4K reminiscent of Belgian legend Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom.

On Nuke Natus Vincere simply seemed to have run out of steam and ideas. Already facing an uphill battle after a mediocre five-round CT effort, they lost the force-buy wars that commenced early on their offense and never recovered.

3DMAX meanwhile will be thrilled to have righted the ship in Stage 2 after starting their campaign with a meek loss to FURIA, grabbing morale-boosting wins over FaZe and Natus Vincere to put themselves on the brink of a playoff berth.

ESL Pro League Season 22Best of 3

3DMAX

Matchpage

6th October 2025

Natus Vincere

Inferno

Train

Nuke

3DMAX	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating3.0
Bryan 'Maka' Canda Maka	56 - 42	+3.83%	84.8	71.0%	1.29
Filip 'Graviti' Brankovic Graviti	48 - 41	+0.66%	68.7	69.6%	1.09
Pierre 'Ex3rcice' Bulinge Ex3rcice	45 - 43	-0.07%	63.9	73.9%	1.03
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro bodyy	36 - 51	-1.53%	69.7	69.6%	0.84
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang Lucky	33 - 48	-1.43%	65.0	69.6%	0.79

Natus Vincere	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating3.0
Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov w0nderful	49 - 35	+0.93%	69.4	68.1%	1.13
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Aleksib	46 - 43	+0.89%	75.9	78.3%	1.11
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy b1t	40 - 44	+0.50%	59.8	62.3%	0.99
Mihai 'iM' Ivan iM	48 - 48	-0.57%	74.4	66.7%	0.98
Drin 'makazze' Shaqiri makazze	39 - 49	-3.27%	67.6	71.0%	0.86

disband

2025-10-06 16:17

Maka is quite the gamer

2025-10-06 16:18

1 reply

GOAT MAKAZIN

2025-10-06 16:54

French legend Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom

3 replies

Yes

2025-10-06 16:20

@king_dempz plz fix

2025-10-06 16:29

My bad, meant legend of the French scene

2025-10-06 16:36

Deserves a highlight of the year, no doubt. If donk did it, it would be a slam dunk case.

2 replies

Maka doesnt have pr though unfortunately, if donk hit that shot i wonder how many hltv threads Will be on glazing donk

2025-10-06 16:23

Probably not that many, since donk hits shots like these every other game Everyone is used to it

2025-10-06 20:49

Rip NaVi

2025-10-06 16:19

finally lmfao ... this roster should had been rip 6 months ago last time the players even cared ... but fuking hell i hope as a navi fun we get some good fking players or we are gonna cry after 10 years major and this roster even in 2035 like faze/fnc/nip fans ... i dont have 10 years untill somobody good enoght comes to navi and extend this bot blad3 the contract for 2-3 years xDDD

2025-10-06 16:27

meds

2025-10-07 10:45

Loving seeing Maka coming into his own on the team. Best decision for 3DMAX to move him away from the IGL role.

Graviti is the next big igl

LOSE TO IC OR HOTU AND GO TO DE_AIRPORT TO THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. AleksiB having brain lag, IM missing easiest kills, people on NaVi playing decoy party. Get out of here.

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this is a dead roster .... the players dont even give a shit about this team bro ... they are not even mad for losing and finishing last place anymore .... blad3 kinda fuked this out and talked about chances for almost 1 year and he didnt bring anything and the players dont give a fuck anymore ... blad3 last 3 interviews are all " we are gonna chance after the major " 10 majors went and blad3 didnt moved anything ... who tf cares ... u literlely need to play cs 24h /day to win nowadays vs donk/ziwo/monesy/choko and many other very good teams/playesrs aswel mgl/mouz/g2 /spirit

2025-10-06 16:31

6 replies

Just sit back and reform team positions ffs

2025-10-06 16:38

5 replies

blad3 is a bot bro ... he dont even diserve this 2024 run .... this bot only talks about the navi players beeing bad/ and alecsb t2 igl (lmfao) when blad3 was a t2 bot as a player/igl/coach carryed by simple prime playing against dead team in 2021 when the covid strike and this 2024 random domination both carryed by jl /simple not by blad3 sistem and dogshit mappools ... blad3 sistem is so rigged/dogshit that navi is the only team on t1-t2 now that only wins 13-11 or loses 13-11 90% of the maps even playing vs t1/t2/t3 they still drop a map and berelly win 13-11 ... navi with blade sistem will drop a map and will lose 11 rounds even if they transfer this team on FEMALE SCENE ... navi literely lost 8 rounds to imperial FE aswel and they got 13-0 even by t3 male players lmfao

2025-10-06 16:42

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I am praying on their full downfall until they get some good player after the major.

2025-10-06 16:44

no good player will ever come to play on blad3 sistem my friend . +u have to play with wounderfull as main awp(lmfao) ... blad3 allready ruined 90% of the good players he got and after they left they got up on form again .... NPL/SDY/MAKAZE ALLREADy is ruined ... this are only 3 from like 10000 players ruined

2025-10-06 16:48

Even S1mple left the team kekw. B1ad3 had something in 2024 with JL but now it is just depressing. get rid of WHIFFFOOL first because that mf is tilting more than aleksib man - whiffs easiest shots in his life is ordinary and came from Sprout. If they somehow manage to claw back out SOMEHOW, I am going to hit my wall until I leave a mark in it ffs.

2025-10-06 16:53

exaclty ... blad3 and wounderfull out and if posible 1 riffler upgrade but for start only 2 new pieces ... this guy blad3 when u hear what he talks on interview literelly 70iq bot and its not even funny lmfao ...90% of what he says its not truth and hard copes like "the next major is our do/or die " and that was blad3 saying that in 2015 till today 2025 xDDDD LMFAO .... this bot literelly prefers to play with t3 bots and perma loses 10 years in a row than to actually bring a good player who is gonna say to him "fuck u bot im not playing this shit sistem we are allready 0-12 down " and he is gonna lose his ego ... thats why blad3 wont even try and even if he tryes nobody is gonna come start players /very good players because he knows he is gonne from navi ... cant coach anything like bot ash/zonic ... is this bot zonic retired after astralis he will be a good for the scene but now is the biggest bot ever.... fuking hell u have infinite money and dont even reach play-offs or deep runs most of the times lmfao

2025-10-06 17:00

Navi are jokes, I hope they play against HOTU tomorrow and loose

2025-10-06 16:21

Oe maka

Trashvi can t beat this tier 2 team

2025-10-06 16:25

EZ for 3DGODS

Expected. This team has no future.

2025-10-06 16:32

i see, it's sad

2025-10-06 16:46

well

2025-10-06 16:49

IM 0.95 including a lifegame map of inferno tells you a lot

2025-10-06 16:56

not even going to watch their games anymore, this roster has 0 hype and needs changes asap or just disband the entire sht

2025-10-06 17:07

No changes until the major, thats obvious, i would want navi to go full ukrainian or get some actual fucking talent if they want to keep being international

2025-10-06 21:36

makazze :(

2025-10-06 18:41

Bring back jLegend ASAP or disband already

2025-10-06 20:06

20 replies

jL stepped down on his own accord. he doesnt want to come back if it means one of his teammates will lose their job jL is a good guy like that

2025-10-06 23:41

19 replies

He got benched no? NAVI lost personality and rep after him, heard him say that he lost his job in one of his streams and he was kinda feeling down, I don't think he stepped down on his own accord

2025-10-06 23:45

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he didnt get benched. he stepped down theres a difference. navi wanted to bench iM but jL chose to step down himself so iM could keep his job he is a good friend and a good guy fitting with his personality

2025-10-07 00:25

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He didn't say that himself though, he said he was benched heard it coming from him unless he was lying and doesn't want to work anymore and prefer to stay jobless which is weird and hard to believe tbf and I doubt that someone like him would prefer to step down and let go his job, only one which is playing CS

2025-10-07 00:30

16 replies

he has become a huge streamer and makes alot more money streaming why would he want to grind cs when he can play cs for fun and make heaps more money? also he stepped down so iM could keep his job he is a good guy

2025-10-07 01:18

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a lot of dickriding in the way you shape your sentences, bud, get off it

2025-10-07 01:25

how is it dickriding? its actually what happened jL didnt get benched he stepped down cry about it

2025-10-07 01:31

dickriding is using "good guy" in every single response, lil bud, not about what he did or didn't. anyone around here have a dozen reasons to call him the opposite but that's also not the point

2025-10-07 01:51

well if you were about to lose your job and a co-worker instead stepped down so you keep your job would you say he is a good guy? or are we not allowed to think that without being called a dickrider?

2025-10-07 02:09

i'd say, to me he comes off as an idiot regardless but again, not the point. not to mention he never said he did it for im if your workplace makes a specific change and you step down so a lousy coworker keeps your place - you negated the change thus made it worse. yet again, not the point. the point is, you seem to struggle to understand it, so i will elaborate, is that you used a term "good guy" thrice in your dialogue with with that other guy. it's not about how good or bad jL is, it's you repeating the same mantra word by word each time that makes you seem like a guy who dickrides with no hindsight, and honestly, judging by how you responded to this - makes sense now.

2025-10-07 02:23

i aint reading allat you just a hater.

2025-10-07 02:40

proves my point

2025-10-07 02:46

I got the answer, he did want to step down it's true, but he didn't do it for iM though like our friend hoangii said, asked AI and they said jL wanted to step down and take a break for his own interests, personal life, wife, health and stuff so yea hoangi was half right about stepping down, but it has nothing to do with jL being good and doing it for iM because it just didn't make any sense for me at the begining

2025-10-07 02:51

Why was he feeling down then after he got benched by NAVI? he even said it on stream that he wanted to play the game instead of staying benched when someone asked him about it I was there and heard it coming from him also it's not about being a good or bad guy it's about his job and nobody wants to lose it in the sake of somebody else this just doesn't exist bradder life is tough and he has a family to feed and to take care of

2025-10-07 01:37

why would he feel down? he stepped down on his own accord. he could have stayed if he wanted to, he just didnt want to

2025-10-07 02:10

Did he say that he wanted to step down for iM to keep his job? or did NAVI say it too? he must at least explain it to his fans and the community don't you think? because I heard him say different and he even said it with much regrets

2025-10-07 02:20

yes he did say he stepped down also navi also said he stepped down it wasnt a benching

Well I got the answer now thanks to AI lol it's true he wanted to step down, but he didn't do it for iM though he did it for himself and he plans to come back and play once more once the break is over Regards

2025-10-07 02:43

yeah thats why i didnt understand how you said he was down because he wants to play. he stepped down on his own accord but so many people acting like navi benched him

2025-10-07 03:47