NaVi runs rings around the competition
DreamHack Winter 2017 was held in Sweden over the weekend along with tournaments in H1Z1, Smash Bros. Melee, Hearthstone, Quake Champions and CS: PROCEED. These tournaments tend to be qualifying matches which contribute towards groups moving closer to the bigger competitions in the new year. For CS: GO, DreamHack is the final tournament of the year.
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Natus Vincere (NaVi) were the winners of this year's DreamHack Winter season CS: GO occasion, beating out idol teams Heroic, Team EnVy and Mousesports. This was NaVi’s very first championship win associated with 2017.
NaVi initially lost to Gambit Esports in an overtime match that appeared to last forever, having a final score associated with 31 - twenty-eight (a very high rating for a competitive match). This meant these were up against Heroic. NaVi was able to crush Brave 2 - one in the group decider match, pushing them up to the playoff stage and getting them back into the race. In the semifinals, they were pitted against Team Be jealous of.
The entire beginning of the match between NaVi as well as EnVy was close, with each team trading points sequentially. It wasn’t until NaVi gained some ground that they managed to take some successive points and get both the Overpass and also the Nuke maps. At the same time, Mousesports had eliminated Gambit 2 -- 0, setting the stage for the 2 to battle it away in the finals.
The very first map was Cobblestone where NaVi creamed Mousesports 16 -- 4. This was mostly due to NaVi’s Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev having an outstanding match, killing 26 himself. Mousesports was constantly confused, with the match moving to making kills more than completing the objective. The actual kills and factors just kept rolling in for NaVi.
Once more, it was a few key player’s that result in NaVi’s victory upon Inferno. Both Denis “electronic” Sharipov as well as Egor “flamie” Vasilyev were unstoppable, pulling out an enormous number of kills and earning their team the factors to win the grand final.
The effectiveness of play from individual NaVi team members was the foundation of their triumph. S1mple was easily the man of the match throughout the tournament, making at least 31 kills per map. This really is an astounding level of perform and may just carry them through to the League in the new year. NaVi must have their eyes set on the Boston Major in mid-January to Csgo skins for sale have an offline qualifier.
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