Players that have qualified for both the first CS:GO and first CS2 Majors so far:
🇩🇰 gla1ve (ENCE)
🇩🇰 karrigan (FaZe)
🇫🇷 apEX (Vitality)
And ex-players that have made it as coaches:
🇵🇱 NEO (FaZe)
🇵🇱 TaZ (G2)
👑 NAVI have reached the
#1
of HLTV World Rankings with FIVE different rosters, more than any other organization in Counter-Strike
Vitality and FaZe did it with four each
Highest-rated players in the
#PGLMajor
playoffs:
❌ m0NESY - 1.40
❌ donk - 1.26
✅ jL - 1.25
❌ NiKo - 1.23
✅ frozen - 1.20
Didn't think I would say it, but jL has a shot at the MAJOR MVP
🔥🔥🔥Сьогодні. 17:00. Прем'єра ексклюзивного інтерв'ю з s1mple на нашому YouTube!
Легендарний гравець NAVI Олександр
@s1mpleO
Костилєв дав ексклюзивне інтерв'ю репортерці Players Софії Піхало після фіналу IEM Katowice 2024.
#navination
#s1mple
s1mple won his first
#1
in the year when he had to compete against the greatest team of all time while hard carrying Zeus & Edward
VIT fans claim ZywOo is now the greatest ever after the year when he won a Major, besting the world's
#22
,
#19
,
#28
Choose your GOAT wisely 🇺🇦🐐
B1ad3 on Aleksib via
@playersua
:
"He still has a long way to go. When we hired him, in my opinion, he was not a Tier-1 IGL"
"The way he saw CS was a little bit old-school"
"Step by step we tried to change him because he had a lot of micromanagement over the players"
Damn
The first ever CS:GO Major winning org: 🇬🇧 fnatic
The org with the most Major final appearances: 🇸🇪 NIP
The org with the most Major titles: 🇩🇰 Astralis
None of the three made it to the first CS2 Major in Copenhagen
🇺🇦 sdy on his time in NAVI via PlayersUA:
🗣️ "I didn't play my role and positions, and didn't have a voice in the team, and now I understand how important it is to me.
It's clear that
I didn't even play at 50% of my potential, but that depended solely on me" 1/2
When NAVI wins a Major: "It's a fluke and they must win more events to prove otherwise" 😡
When Liquid does well in a group-stage tournament where you can't be eliminated:
FaZe beat the No. 2 and No.3 team to reach
#PGLMajor
Grand Final and ropz is the team's LOWEST-RATED player in the playoffs:
🇸🇰 frozen - 1.20
🇱🇻 broky - 1.19
🇳🇴 rain - 1.05
🇩🇰 karrigan - 1.05
🇪🇪ropz - 1.01
Worth noting karrigan won all his 24 trophies as IGL, while apEX won nine and two of them happened online:
▪️ IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 EU
▪️ BLAST Fall 2020 Finals
karrigan and gla1ve are still the GOATs of in-game leading, too early to include apEX in this discussion
stavn and jabbi backstabbed cadiaN, the father figure of this team, and then the org
wasn't cadiaN always insisting on how close the players are in the team?
also how astralis' pull is still so strong these days wtf
Lack of motivation, self-discipline, and maturity:
@EspiranToCSGO
decided it was time for a drastic change and volunteered for military service 🪖
The Lithuanian "killed the boy and let the man be born", and now he's back to work his way to the top of Counter-Strike
"After Sydney huNter's meant to be going to Vitality, NiKo's meant to be going to Falcons, m0NESY wants to join Cloud9 — and now they are all still there and Justin is not"
😬
On the latest episode of Talking Counter, SPUNJ says that G2 did not speak with jks for weeks after IEM Sydney. He messaged team management about coming back to EU for practice and was ghosted.
2023 Cologne playoff teams and their best finish at the event on LAN:
🇫🇷 Vitality - 2nd (2019)
🇺🇸 Cloud9 - 2nd (2017)
🇩🇰 Heroic - 7-8th (2019, 2021)
🇩🇰 Astralis - 3-4th (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
🇫🇮 ENCE - 7-8th (2018)
🇪🇺 G2 - 2nd (2021)
A new champion will be crowned
Keep in mind that the guy who "leaked" the NAVI rumors also reported in the past that:
- coldzera would join Liquid;
- MSL would be fnatic's IGL;
- and TSM would return with messioso at the helm of the project.
We didn't appreciate neL, DeKay, and RLewis enough
🇩🇰 Astralis at
#IEM
Katowice:
3-4th in 2016
1st in 2017
3-4th in 2018
1st in 2019
3-4th in 2020
5-6th in 2021
7-8th in 2022
AND
21st-24th in 2024 thanks to new up-and-coming Polish IGL Łukasz "gla1ve" Rossander
People didn't think headtr1ck would be as good as m0NESY, but damn... he couldn't even properly establish himself at tier one
Remember, he is the most picked Bold prediction ever, chosen by:
🇫🇷 ZywOo
m0NESY
🇩🇰 blameF
🇳🇴 rain
🇧🇦 huNter-
🇺🇦 b1t
🇸🇰 frozen
jL is literally the best-rated rifler on NAVI this year, but the community will continue spreading this bullshit narrative that his main purpose is to keep up the " good vibes"
Criminally underrated
FaZe's individual ratings in the Katowice group stage vs. the playoffs:
🇱🇻 broky - 1.09 ➡️ 1.43
🇳🇴 rain - 0.94 ➡️ 1.42
🇸🇰 frozen - 1.26 ➡️ 1.33
🇪🇪 ropz - 1.08 ➡️ 1.14
🇩🇰 karrigan - 0.91 ➡️ 1.01
Timely recovery from rain, he can and should be the difference maker today
iM bottom fragging on this team after nearly winning the Major MVP in Paris is something few expected
Not sure how, but he needs to be unleashed asap if NAVI don't want to miss out on Cologne playoffs - they've never missed it before on LAN
🏅 FaZe vs. Spirit grand final appearances at Big Events, including
#IEM
Katowice 2024:
karrigan - 27
rain - 27
ropz - 16
broky - 11
frozen - 6
sh1ro - 4
chopper - 1
magixx - 1
zont1x - 1
donk - 1
And yet if FaZe are not sharp individually, the experience will be of no use
While the majority of teams build more towards the future and sign youngsters, Falcons now field a lineup with an average age of 28.3 👴
Easily the oldest team in the top thirty
I like dupreeh, but what's the long-term vision of this roster?
hades masterclass wasted ☹️
His best rating in a big event series yet, but it wasn't enough:
🥇 1.45 vs. Falcons @ Kato 23 (1-2)
🥈 1.42 vs. Outsiders @ EPL 15 (2-0)
🥉 1.40 vs. Vitality @ Kato 23 (2-1)
It will soon be a year since NRG returned, and they have achieved absolutely nothing
The only LAN they attended was Americas RMR for Copenhagen, and there they finished dead last
Sources CS2: NiKo 🇧🇦 is set to join Team Falcons 🇸🇦 , deal sealed.
He is expected to play the Shanghai Major with G2 and to join Falcons in January 2025
-Buyout to be between $1M and $1.2M.
- 3-year contract
Read on
@Sheep_Esports
⬇️
🇺🇦 sdy has played 137 maps since joining Monte at the beginning of the year in January
For comparison, his map record in NAVI is 79, and he spent there half a year
Also keep in mind HLTV doesn't always cover open qualifier games
The grind is unreal
The format was not optimal,
@caspercadiaN
agrees, but he doesn't think Liquid would have been able to do much at the Major with the level they showed at the RMR 😔
b1t after the break:
31 maps played
87.1% maps with 1+ rating (27/31)
54.8% maps with 1.3+ rating (17/31)
20 avg. kills per 24 rounds
The world is not ready for B2B Big Event MVPs
“If I had the chance to [win] four Majors than to be the GOAT, I’d definitely choose four Majors”
This one line is much spicier than the entire first part of the interview 😯
Nothing screams "I don't know CS" more calling this a lifegame when the player in question is five-time HLTV Top 20
You MUST be familiar with his game by now
"Obviously leaving dupreeh was tough when they made the decision, Vitality… I will say we"
Starting to think no one on the roster including zonic wanted that change, but the management pushed for it
Fun fact: Aleksib has been bested by an 🇦🇺 team in a LAN Bo3 in 5 of the 6 matches:
❌ 1-2 Grayhound @ EPL 17
❌ 0-2 Renegades @ IEM Cologne 21
❌ 0-2 Renegades @ Berlin Major
✅ 2-0 Renegades @ IEM Chicago 19
❌ 0-2 Renegades @ IEM Katowice 19
❌ 0-2 Renegades @ SL Shanghai
"NAVI needed a completely different player. I told Andriy [B1ad3] in our talks that a player that they need doesn't exist.
Now we obviously see that the team is being restructured" 2/2
So far KRIMZ is the only player who has both attended the inaugural Major in 2013 and qualified for the last one in 2023
Soon he may be joined by players such as: gla1ve, Xyp9x, device, dupreeh, apEX, and cadiaN
And karrigan or NBK & kennyS, depending on how the LCQ plays out
It's funny how people made up this narrative that s1mple was shit and missed half of the year when in truth he was one of the best performers at 2023 Big Events and decided to take a break only in October
This mass delusion is apparent with some other placements too
s1mple has just announced a "big interview" with him will be released on the 25th
"Guys, I gave a big interview regarding my career. The host is cool also, hope you will like it. So stay tuned"
$500k for the Major, $400k for the EWC, and NAVI becomes the first team to hit $1 million prize money winnings in 2024:
▪️ NAVI: $1,060,000
▪️ Spirit: $830,000
▪️ MOUZ: $727,000
▪️ FaZe: $574,500
▪️ G2: $469,500